Linnea's constellation being "Alcyon" makes me (semi-) confident that the type of fae she's meant to represent is an "Alkonost," a Slavic folkloric monster that's more traditionally depicted with a woman's face and wings for her body (though sometimes sprouting from their heads):
Sometimes conflated with another monster that looks the same, the Sirin, both Alkonost and Sirin are fixated on sound, with magical abilities to manipulate voice and/or song to lure people into complacency. There seems to be a nod to this connection to voice or song in Linnea's character intro:
Linnea also mentions that there are "six common types of fae on the tundra." This is really interesting to me, but I'm wondering if it may already be complicated by the fact that the fae seem to have sorted themselves into categories that are based on commonalities other than appearance.
The readable from this last patch confirms that one "type" of fae, called the Volkodlak, came in at least three varieties--bear-shifters, wolf-shifters, and bull-shifters (likely some kind of minotaur-esque creature). It's unclear from the readable whether the "water imps" were also counted among the Volkodlak or are considered a separate type.
Linnea's drip marketing also mentions "Changelings," which were brought up in a world quest in 6.0 too. Theoretically, this could be yet another type/umbrella category of fae, one of the six "common" types--but in the "real" world, Changelings aren't a specific type of fae by themselves; instead, this is a general term for any fae (typically a fae child) that is left to be raised by humans, while the fae spirit away the original human child. In 6.0, this is how the concept is used, with the human caretaker fearing that one of her young human charges has been replaced by a fae Changeling instead. I guess we'll see whether the 6.0 world quest carries through to new lore in 6.5!
It's also unclear where "aarnivalkea" (will-o-wisps, lantern fae, etc.) fall under this umbrella, whether they are a separate type or not. Given that the water imps are labeled "Waterborn," it's possible there's a "Flameborn" category, or that elementally-aligned fae are all grouped together under one label like the Volkodlak are.
It seems likely to me that while there may be six "common types," there are probably many different "sub-types" under that umbrella, making the Snowland Fae a very diverse group!
You're excited for Linnea because she's cute, I'm excited for Linnea because free fae lore. We are not the same.
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