(typed from my notes written last year. Background story on Tisandra's mother and father)
Faerie Timeline

Elven apartheid against Commoner Fae grows as a result of the closing of the paths and gateways, purely scapegoats.

Members of the Unseelie fae, specifically the Red Caps, the Rabblerousers and the Commoner's Revolution Army, begin small guerilla attacks on the Elven nobility class. An Elven lord is killed during one such attack and the response from Elves is that of vengeance.

The ruling king, Oberon, sees to it that several Commoner villages are torched indiscriminately.

Malacar, son of Sallox the Bonebreaker, is born in the small village of Brickton.

Kurlos, son of the demon Asmodeus and the goblin woman, Virulina, is born in the small village of Blood-haven. Kurlos is raised by his mother on stories of his Fomorian heritage and Elven oppression

Against the advice of the court seer/advisor Thomas the Rhymer, Oberon commands that the generals of the Commoner Revolution Army are to be arrested by Sidhe knights and put to death. Oberon sees to the executions himself. The following day, new generals are selected and sworn in, vowing vengeance upon Elven feudalism.

Titiania and Oberon, elven Queen and King of Faerie, have their first child, a daughter, Niamh. The Rhymer foresees much peace in her birth.

Seelie Court, the ruling party of Elven nobility, enacts legislation penalizing Fey races with any ties to the Unseelie Court terrorist actions, penalties up to and including forfeiture of land and property to Elven lords and or familial execution for any Fae who aids and abets Unseelie Court. Taxes are raised upon Commoner fae to fund Seelie Court warchests to aid in "securing peace". This results in a revolt by non-Seelie Court allied Commoners which is quickly quelled by Elven cavalry in a massacre of hundreds.

Unseelie Court quickly gains new support amongst Common Fae overburdened by taxes and Elven apartheid.

Kurlos and Malacar strike up a friendship working as pages for the Rabblerousers, a demolitions terrorist group.

The Canaille War is declared by Unseelie Court and the first strike is made when the Elven citadel known as Tempesheer is attacked and occupied by Unseelie Court forces.

Kurlos and Malacar climb swiftly in the ranks of the Commoner's Army, serving as pirates known as Dread Lanterns aboard the flying galleon Hemlock under the ogre Obsidian.

Malacar eventually achieves Commander rank under Captain Obsidian (with Kurlos right under him as a Lt. Commander) of the Hemlock and its crew known as ‘The Dread Lanterns’. They spend most of their youth pillaging and devastating Elven troops and depots.

During an Elven convoy attack, the Dread Lanterns are ambushed by Elven knights. Obsidian is killed and Malacar takes control of the Hemlock. They barely escape with their lives. Malacar spends the next few years paying back Obsidian's death with Elven blood and screams. This is one of Kurlos's favored times of his life.

While traveling with guard, Niamh, a young woman now, along with her courtesans, is captured by Malacar and held for ransom. During her stay under Commoner capture, Malacar, his rage now exhausted at Obsidian's death, grows attracted to her beauty and enchanted by her defiance of his power. He becomes determined that this conflict must be put to rest and strives to show Niamh how Commoners are oppressed by Elven tyranny. On the other hand, Kurlos and another Dread Lantern, Daggermouth, find Malacar's blossoming interest in Niamh an insult to their cause.

Oberon agrees to pay the ransom and Malacar promptly frees her, though their feelings for each other have already been seeded. Back amongst the nobility, Niamh petitions her father on behalf of Malacar and the Commoners. When she isn't leveraging her father to make more concessions to the peasant class, she's busy planning midnight rendezvous to warn Malacar about impeding strikes by Sidhe Knights. She and Malacar grow closer and more intimate through the course of the meetings.

Kurlos, of course, believes she is setting Malacar up to fall. Kurlos is approached by the winter death cult, Shadow Court, and initiated into membership, unbeknownst to Malacar.

Eventually Niamh becomes pregnant with Tisandra. The scandal at first threatens to topple Titania and Oberon from the throne, but instead, at Niamh's insistence, the troll is invited to the king's domain and an alliance is agreed upon, based in part on Malacar's proclaimed intent of marriage to Niamh.

Titania and Oberon oversee the handover of the crown to Malacar and Niamh and leave Faerie to live in Avalon, the sanctuary of all faerie kings previous to them. The Canaille War is finally resolved and the Faerie Kingdom is born, uniting both Seelie and Unseelie in a parliamentarian monarchy. Kurlos is appointed by Malacar as his military advisor.

Kurlos is introduced to the demon Asmodeus, the liaison to Shadow Court and Kurlos’s father. His drive to complete the goals of reintegration for Shadow Court intensifies under his father’s gaze.

Tisandra is born to Niamh and Malacar a few years after the relative peace of the Canaille Treaty. Malacar appoints the Rhymer as her teacher and protector.

Kurlos, along with Daggermouth and several other former Shadow Court soldiers, remain unsatisfied with the political situation. He and his compatriots devise a plan to assassinate Niamh in the hopes that Malacar will be thrown into a rage. Fueled by what he feels is complete betrayal by his best friend during the War, Kurlos begins a plan to strike deeply and personally at Malacar in the hope that it might enflame the king into draconian action against Unseelie Court representatives. Kurlos hopes this will eventually lead to a Commoner overthrow in the face of his beserker tyranny, with the hope that it will result in a government devoid of ANY Elven involvement. He researches how to invoke The Huntsman, a whispered entity of death, and how to use it for his ends. Three years he spends learning the proper magic until finally he performs the correct spell and dispatches the Huntsman to kill Niamh.

When Malacar's guards find her, Malacar is initially dumbstruck with grief. The days are thick with mourning throughout the Empire and Kurlos take the opportunity to fan the flames of Malacar's pain, baiting him to attack the Unseelie faction. Malacar finally succumbs to Kurlos's Iago-esque lies and prepares a battalion of mixed Elven and pro-kingdom Unseelie to strike down the rebels. But before Malacar trudges off to battle, Thomas defuses his anger, suggesting that it is in Tisandra’s best interests for the peace to remain in Faerie. Kurlos, of course, is furious. His plans ruined, he continues to plan, waiting for the opportunity to murder Malacar using the Huntsman. That opportunity arrives when a young mortal boy and his sister arrive at Malacar's court.

There is no magical blood. Kurlos's father may be Asmodeus. But Bobby's father is not the demon. His origins may be mortal. I haven't decided. But his magick doesn't depend on it. And here's why.

The gauntlet is a permanent glove. It seals the Curse of the Pangs. The gauntlet is not the hand of Kurlos. It is the hand of Azaran, the Fianna warrior Ossian and sorcerer/alchemist/protector to Tisandra. Azaran doesn't have time to teach Bobby, to instruct him in magical means. Time is wasting and Kurlos would be on their heels. So instead he gives and grafts a part of himself to Bobby to effect the protection and to effect a sort of guidance. He chops off his own hand as a sacrifice (his last and final sacrifice is his death on returning to Earth and, per his request, having his crumbling ashes used to seal the threshhold upon which Bobby, Zuzu and Tisandra have entered Earth, thus closing it to Kurlos and his thugs).

Azaran's chopped-off hand is made into a glove and then permanently made a part of Bobby's hand, making it red? black? by boiling it around the greaser's own hand. With it is the sealed Curse of the Pangs. The Pangs begins in his hand and creeps like wildfire up his body if Tisandra sleeps in the same bed for two nights. The curse can only be lifted by taking her to Avalon. And not before.

The gauntlet is transferred wisdom. But just because it's given over, it doesn't mean it's automatically imbibed or used. It must be grown into, used and approached from a new direction. Thus the toy gun as the final piece, as his mental crutch/ignition switch.

Bobby's powers: Been bouncing around ideas regarding Bobby's powers. Had a conversation with Taylor regarding the five elements (Earth, Water, Fire, Wind and Void) and it got my mind spinning on alchemists and their metaphysical art based on those elements. But Bobby is Psychopompos. He is Argophontes. And because of that, his magick must be the truest of that core. Language. Magick is language and, to be more exact, disinformation and prestidigitation. It's deceit, pure and simple. Manipulating the elements is one thing. But true magick possesses more emphasis on manipulation. Ugh. How do I handle that?

Is the gauntlet a cursor of a sort?

Also been giving thought to utilizing a dragon as the weapon Avalon gives to Tisandra once she pleads her case to them. So instead of Ouroboros being the dragon who exits Enkidu's body when he releases his menagerie, he would instead be used at the very end, as a powerful tool against The Custodians and Kurlos's forces. Replacing him as the powerful animal who is freed by Enkidu (and is downed by nuclear testing) would instead be a phoenix. A very large phoenix.

Unfortunately this might be a bit of stale idea since I would be hard pressed to convince the reader (or myself for that matter) that a phoenix can truly be killed, being creatures of rebirth and all.

But it makes more sense, I think. Unless I have a phoenix used as the Avalon gift. Hmm. As a sacrificial protector, the phoenix might just work out for the better.

NO. Have something better than that. Titania and Oberon give their granddaughter seeds. Seeds from the Island of Apples. Seeds for her to build her own Eden in America. A land of the Exiles. In the middle of the Nevada Desert.

"Plant them where only death grows."