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[[File:Offling.png | 400 px | x 600 px | right | border | frame | An Offling.]]

=Overview=

Offlings ([[Commonspeak]]), also Bogles {{lang|Feyspeak|ˈboʊɡəlz|\ˈboʊɡəlz\|frightening}} or Rutterkin {{lang|Norspeak|ˈrʌtərkɪn|\ˈrʌtərkɪn\|broken ones}}, are a Fey species native to [[Arcadia]]. They are one of the two constituent species of [[The Lower Bone Court]], ruled jointly by [[The Porcelain Queen]]. Offlings embody Strange Meaning through misplacement, wrongness, and the quiet horror of things that do not fit where they belong.

Where the Greyfolk contemplate endings as determined by internal forces like decay, Offlings linger among endings as determined by others: the lost, forgotten, and neglected.

=History=

==Dark Age==

Offlings came into existence in the mid Dark Age, circa NIR 1400, with the formation of [[The Lower Court]]. This Court pursued Strange Meaning through location and misplacement, asserting that meaning arises not from where something should be, but from where it ends up instead.

Offlings were shaped as living embodiments of error and remainder, creatures who exist slightly to the side of expectation.

Later in the Dark Age, circa NIR 1750, [[The Lower Court]] was fused with [[The Bone Court]] through the Concordance, forming [[The Lower Bone Court]]. From the Offling perspective, this fusion was not traumatic but clarifying.

Where Offlings had once focused on being wrongly placed, the presence of the Greyfolk taught them that all things eventually end up somewhere they did not intend. The two species recognized one another as complementary rather than conflicting. Misplacement and decay became two halves of the same truth.

==Dawn Age==

In the current era, Offlings and Greyfolk coexist in a genuine, if morbid, harmony. Their shared Court is among the quietest and most unsettling in Arcadia.

=Cosmology=

[[The Lower Bone Court]] holds that Strange Meaning arises from impermanence. Offlings embody the moment before erosion, when something still exists, but already does not belong.

Their deformities are not injuries or flaws, but philosophical facts. Every Offling is a catalog of asymmetry, proof that perfect placement is an illusion. They do not seek correction; to be corrected would erase their meaning.

=Society=

Within [[The Lower Bone Court]], Offlings occupy roles as tricksters, watchers, and living reminders that things go astray.

They are deeply fascinated by mortal death, not as an ending, but as the ultimate misplacement, life removed from where it was expected to remain. In imitation of [[The Porcelain Queen]], Offlings often dress themselves in carefully chosen clothing: neat dresses, tiny suits, or ceremonial outfits that starkly contrast with their warped bodies.

This dress-up is not mockery. It is reverence. The Offlings honor the form that should have been, even as they embody what actually is.

=Ecology=

Offlings resemble short, misshapen elf-children, though they are neither children nor elves. No two Offlings are alike. Their bodies are defined by asymmetry: limbs too long or too short, faces pulled off-center, eyes and ears mismatched in size, and patchy, uneven hair.

They possess the ability to vanish entirely, turning invisible at will. They can also throw their voices, making speech or sound appear to originate from elsewhere, reinforcing their association with misplacement.

Offlings favor ruins, forgotten rooms, abandoned toys, and places where something is clearly missing. In such spaces, they are playful, attentive, and eerily at ease.

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