My first post! WHA Fan-Statue & a Fairy Realm AU Theory 🧚✨
So, this is my very first post here!
It’s an unfinished statue, but I really wanted to share this stage of the process, along with a few interesting ideas! You could probably call this an AU (Alternate Universe)... or just my wild imagination running free with the world of Witch Hat Atelier.
I’ll keep it brief at first just to give you the general idea, but I’d love to develop it further here if anyone is interested!
One day, I started thinking about the Three Wise Gifted, and the fact that stories about fairies and other magical creatures exist in this world. Why do ordinary people believe that witches actually cast "magic spells"? That belief couldn't have just come out of nowhere, right?
So, in my head, I pictured a Fairy Realm that closed its gates to humans on the day of the Conspiracy. After all, wouldn't humans get angry that they can't use magic while magical creatures can? In mythology and various fandoms, the Fairy Realm is often described as either a more magical or a completely inverted version of the human world. And what if they have their own Three Wise Gifted there? Maybe their Wise One of Teachings is actually a fairy—the very same airy illusion Beldaruit was planning to create for himself? (Honestly, it all started because I wanted to see how my OCs would look in the Witch Hat world, but my boyfriend's character turned out to look so much like Beld, and it just evolved into this, hehe).
And then there's Qifrey! I can't stop thinking about what kind of experiment the Brimmed Caps were actually running on him. They couldn't have just thought, "Hey, let's see what's inside this seed," right? What if they were trying to bring fairies—or rather, dryads—back to life, and the seed of a magical tree was the perfect tool for it? Were they trying to turn a human child into a dryad?
As for the Silver Tree, I thought about Tolkien's lore: what if Golden Trees grow in the Fairy Realm?If you guys are interested, I could share more pieces of this lore for all the amazing writers out there.
And, of course, I can't wait to finally finish my drawings and this statue! It's going to go through a silver-plating process later.
This is a pretty interesting theory! If you don't mind me developing this further ( my knowledge of WHA is up to vol. 4 but I've been spoilered pretty heavily on this app ), what if all the human lands ( before magic ) were sort of under the imperial control of this Fairy realm, and after a certain time of subjugation under magic, human resentment grew and grew until there were certain rebels who tried to replicate the magic the fairies did to eliminate this superiority and defeat the regime.
But since this Fairy regime was very strict about who entered in their lands, these rebels couldn't do much against this magic. But these fairies had a habit of taking certain chosen humans as their slaves/ apprentices/ entertainment ( rare) etc.
So certain rebels spent years training in order to get chosen, and when they did get entry, tried to learn the very secrets of magic itself. Of course they didn't learn the actual magic that the fairies could do, since they were a different species but they noticed and learnt that everything in the fairy realm ( trees, vegetables etc ) were infused with magic itself.
So they snuggled back vegetables and seeds in hope that eating them would make them magical too. Of course when nothing happened, they threw these seeds away. Many seeds didn't sprout to plants. But one species did. The Silverwood. Certain humans noticed and after years of experimentation, they figured that the ink was magic itself and they could use its powers by using the ink. They figured a way to get the Silverwood tree to grow more and more until they spread all over the human lands. They also became very protected. Each human had its own Silverwood.
After that it was an all out war between fairies and humans. Long story short, they were forced to be trade partners after 100 years of hostility and magic prospered during this era. Dark spells and harmless spells were both invented. Until the day of the pact, on which the three wise elders and fairies decided to stop the misuse of magic and the fairy realm closed its doors to humans as the majority got their memories erased.
My thoughts on the lore didn't go quite that far before, but the concept of the Silver and Golden Trees is honestly so fascinating to explore. I’ve been developing this AU based heavily on Celtic mythology, where fairies are deeply intertwined with nature, meaning they likely wouldn't appreciate how human witches treat the "blood" of the magical tree—the magic ink. In traditional folklore, fairies cannot touch iron, and I think this can be brilliantly tied into the Witch Hat Atelier magic system: since humans use metal pen nibs, they are essentially using iron to subjugate and force the tree's blood to do their bidding. Humans didn’t stop at just using the ink, either—they even started sacrificing themselves for magic, like Iguin using his own blood, which to the fairies would be a total abomination.While this specific conflict applies to the fairies, other magical races could exist in a broader world, almost like a D&D-inspired multiverse, and they might have successfully harnessed the magic of the Silver Tree without destroying their bond with nature. However, the Fairy Realm was always separated from the human world; the only entry points were "thin places" where the barrier between worlds was weak, and today, those passages are completely hidden from humans and fairies alike.At its core, this is a clash of philosophies regarding nature: the human world is driven by control, hierarchy, and dominance, bending nature to its will through animal husbandry and social classes, whereas the Fairy Realm is rooted in total acceptance and balance. Their philosophy is simple: accept whatever nature provides, work only with the amount of magic you were born with, do not greedily desire more, and if nature didn't gift it to you, do not steal it from others.
Also, fairies themselves are far from innocent: they could easily devour wrongdoers (and others too), or force people into twisted contracts for their souls, which is definitely not a pleasant experience either.
How intriguing! Considering that all of this was before pact ( that's what I'm assuming), the fairy realm philosophy seems remarkably similar to that of the pointed hats that came afterwards. That ties into the theory of the fairy elders signing or enforcing some sort of a contract with the wise humans that ensured that the majority of the humans should not be able to perform magic except for a certain few ( I'm sure the wise human witches added this as some sort of a safety clause, should the fairy realm try to abuse their powers over humans once again.)
The iron nib point that you brought up also intrigues me all the more, since I think that has become some sort of a leverage the humans have over the fairies.
I feel that the fairy realm clashes culturally with the humans ( as you say) but also there might be some superiority dynamics at play. What if the fairies belive that magic belongs to them, by virtue since they were born in the land of magic and nature showed them the pathaway first. So I could imagine that the fall from being the only creatures who could wield magic so effectively to being the second species along with humans, must hit quite hard for them.
And with that, I’m officially starting to work on this project full-time!