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Kasey here, the creator of Firelight Fables, coming to you with a few tips and tricks I've learned over the years when it comes to making your Ren Faire experiences worth while. Whether you’re planning your first-ever faire or returning as a seasoned adventurer, these tips will help you stay comfortable, immersed, and ready for anything.

Learn how the dark, ancient forests of Europe inspired the fantasy forest.

We bring our experiences of forests with us into the text, video game, D&D session, movie, etc., involving a feeling - Waldeinsamkeit.

Victorian Europe rediscovered the forests and then re-enchanting them by filling them with a safe, fun world of fairies.

Romanticism and Transcendentalism reacted to the rationality of modernity and created a new perspective on the beauty and power of forests.

The modern world caused people to stop being afraid of forests. Reason and science disenchanted them, industry caused people to move away.