So, my thoughts on the discussions so far...<br/><br/>I do like the idea of other supernaturals being incorporated.  It just seems odd to me that fae would exist without the other folklore having some basis as well.   Shapechangers are certainly fae both as part of their nature (selkies and pooka) or just as part of the magic.  So it seems easy for werewolf folklore to have been based on them.<br/><br/>Vampires are a touch trickier, though many of their powers could be based on fae glamour (and changing into bats and wolves...)  The fae are a touch vampiric in their needs after all, and the darker of unseelie shide could easily be adverse to light (or just favored the night enough that people jumped to the conclusion they couldn't stand sunlight)  In a pre-industrail time the fae could travel freely in the dark of night and know that they would be unlikely to be interrupted in their games but a crowd of angry neighbors.  So perhaps there was a court of particularly vicious unseelie in eastern Europe that started those legends?<br/><br/>If we don't want to do it like that, we could just have them be 'over there'.  Part of the world but not involved in the scope of our group of fae.  However, I really like the idea of expanding the fae a touch and having them as part of the family.<br/><br/>The inclusion of the more Changling territorial kingdoms shifts us from the Merryverse's (as I recall from reading the first book a while ago) breakdown by more racial lines.  This would adjust the politics (though I can see the characters we already have all being fine with some background adjustments).  Dawn would be a princess for a specific kingdom, unless we perhaps alter things...  Maybe rather than an attempt to have a single queen of all the different races of fae it was an attempt to have a single court ruling all of North America?<br/><br/>