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I've been looking into this particular topic for ages now, but have only found a smattering of blog posts and one (1) singular academic essay.

I'm curious what's known about the offspring of humans and fae. Very specifically not changelings, every time I search I get changeling lore or information and that is definitely something else entirely. There are certainly a number of historical examples in folklore, but rarely do they extend much into the modern era, if at all. I've read that often the half-human children are generally just very intelligent with little physical changes or gifts from their fae parent (with some exceptions in terms of merfolk or selkie parents) and that there's some sort of ritual to initiate to claim gifts tied to their non-human birthright. I've brought far more ordinary things up to others to lead up to these sorts of questions and have been called crazy, so I don't have a lot in terms of directions people could point me in. Hopefully here it's different.