#rococo wizards

Main dishes:

Chateaubriand Steak

Yorkshire Christmas Pie (basically a TURDUCKEN)

Pike with pudding in the belly

Jugged Hare 

Brown Onion Soup

Scotch Collops (bacon)

Cream Chicken Fricasee

Patridges

Pork Ribs

MACARONI AND CHEESE

Beef Ragout

Turtle Soup

Roast goose with apples and prunes

SANDWICHES

Mutton Stew

Meat Pasties

Spicy mulaga-tawny soup (East Indian dish)

Carp

Bouillabaisse

Duck Pottage

Cottage Pie

Pigeons in a hole (Yorkshire puds with pigeons inside them)

Quiche

Welsh Rarebit

Snacks:

Hot cross buns

Soft-boiled eggs

Preserved ginger

Apricot cakes and marmalade

Mashed turnip

Rose preserves

Crumpets

Shortbread

Tomatoes

Broccoli

WAFFLES

Scotch eggs

Bubble and Squeak (leftover vegetables from a roast)

Gooseberry cheese

Headcheese

Salmagundi (salad of meat, anchovies, eggs, condiments)

Spongecake

Gruel

Blanched Asparagus

Barmbrack (Irish fruit cake)

Clotted Cream

Yorkshire puds

Black Butter (creamy applesauce spread)

Dessert:

Ice cream (lengthier and more intensive to make)

Jello

Cake

Blanc-mange

Baked apples

Shrewsbury Cakes (sugar cookies)

Sugar plums (not just plums; any dried fruit with boiled sugar)

Lemon Cream (lemon custard)

Bread pudding

Baked custard

Cheesecake

Jam Tartlets

Lemon Ice (lemon sherbert)

Whipped Syllabub (whipped white wine lemon mousse??)

Pound cake

Gingerbread cake

Trifles (whipped syllabub on top of custard on top of cookies)

Apple Snow (whipped egg whites and baked apple slices)

Beverages:

Mead

Cafe au Lait

Hot Chocolate

Ginger beer

Spruce beer

Eggnog

Tea

Lemonade

Raspberry vinegar (?????)

Negus (wine, hot water, lemon juice, sugar, and nutmeg)

Citrus Shrub (steeped brandy drink)

Spiked punch

Pretty much except for the otherworldly reasons. Usually deals are done with the benefit of themselves in mind (that is, to say, the individual Fae and not Fae as a whole), which can be surprisingly as mundane as ‘this grants me access here’ or ‘now they have to bring me delicious pie every week or they owe me their fingers’. 

They're like rock facts. Only for Fae.

The magic that Fae use is the same fount that humans can tap in to. Fae, by design, are more capable of handling that magic and, therefore, have a wider berth of knowledge in the arcane. Some can even resurrect the dead or keep folks from dying.

Getting one over on a Fae is quite difficult, especially now when magic is just reemerging and so much information about the Fae has been lost over the centuries. There is some information for those who have interacted with humans - appearances in books and the like - but these are brief and exaggerated in most cases. Furthermore what works on one isn't likely going to work on the other. Brute magical and/or physical force rarely works out in the favor of the human, either.

If they even deign to answer you in the first place. A Fae can hide themselves from human eyes quite effectively and if they do not wish to communicate with you then they simply won't. There are rumors that this can be negated but most of those rumors entail that the wizard or witch has driven themselves to insanity's brink to be able to peek past the veil.

Fae are separated from human morality codes and, because of this, they can be good antagonists BUT they are not the villains of this AU. No one singular group is. There are kind wizards and asshole wizards. There are Hammerers that are just folk afraid of losing their livelihoods and there are Hammerers who use violent means to eradicate their problem. There are street magicians that are just trying to make a buck and there are those who are legitimate and just want to bring magic to as many people as possible. Ergo, there are Fae who are nice by human standards and Fae who are wicked by human standards (though neither really care what you think about them).