#ooc: enjoy my lunchtime doodle

[preservationofnormalcy]

How long have glamours been a fixture of the extranormal community, and how accessible are they for the average extranormal person?

If they've only recently become accessible to a broader portion of the community, how has that affected the extranormal community's relations with the mundane world*? I'd imagine that being able to interact with baseline humans* without causing injury to them would be a game-changer. That, and being able to go out into public without causing a ruckus. Although, I do hope that we can work towards a world where those who don't need a glamour for safety reasons can just be themselves.

(*Are these the correct terms?)

Technically, glamours have been a staple for centuries, but for the first couple centuries only for fae. Starting in about the 1800s, coinciding not entirely accidentally with the Industrial Revolution, the techniques began to filter to other populations. In the process they became somewhat standardized and varied based on the population they’re tailored for. They’re now quite accessible, depending on price range. A “decent” one is probably a few hundred dollars, depending on who does it. “Bespoke” or “designer” glamours from studios like Imaginaerie can go for thousands or even tens of thousands. Then there’s places like Drezzik’s Discount Gremlin Glamours that are, uh. Notorious.

As for how it’s effected things, you really can’t overstate the importance of glamours to the extranormal community. Some groups, like demons, had developed their own techniques similar to a glamour, but they adopted the fae-based techniques and mixed it with their own. Other groups had no way of mimicking them and the advent of widespread glamours allowed them to live normal lives. Folks like werewolves often don’t use them (for a lot of cultural reasons) but it still helps them when they need to go “full formal.”

I realized partway through that I needed to explain that, so I turned to my favorite doodle artist Ambrose. We used our coworker Yelnax, Herald of Flame as a model. Thanks, Yelnax!

Nowadays, glamours will often have three “settings”: off, business casual, and full formal. You can see the three settings here in this doodle. Glamours often require a very small amount of concentration or “energy”, and the different settings will require greater or lesser amounts.

Office dress policy is to remain in business casual, it’s a good trade off.

There’s special cases, of course - dragons are intensely magical so their glamours are incredibly powerful by nature, while most types of extraterrestrials struggle to maintain a glamour.