Fountain of the Magical Brethen

[Barb Fulton]

No: HPFGUIDX 116378


 john paul velasco wrote:
> 
> I have a question about the Fountain of the magical brethen in 
> the MoM. Why are merfolks not included in it? Is being a merfolk
> a sickness like being a werewolf? Or are they (merfolks) treated 
> like magical creatures? Just wondering...thanks!


Barb now:

Don't know why there isn't a merfolk in the fountain. I assume there 
are so many magical beings, not all of them can be included in a 
fountain. However, I can give an answer to the next part of your 
question...

According to FBaWtFT, merpeople have declined "being" status in 
favor of a "beast" classification (page 29). The history of the 
being and beast status is discussed at length in the introduction of 
FBAWTFT, where it lists the definition of a being  as "any creature 
that has sufficient intelligence to understand the laws of the 
magical community and to bear part of the responsibility in shaping 
those laws." Both merpeople and centaurs were then labeled as 
beings. Centaurs rejected that classification and prefer to remain 
beasts. A year later, merpeople made the same request. Werewolves 
keep getting shunted from the Beast and Being divisions, and there 
is an office for Werewolf Support Services at the Being division, as 
well as a Werewolf Registry and Werewolf Capture Unit in the Beast 
division.

This might be more information than you wanted. 

-Barb