"Fey are manipulative abominations that deceive and
delude the unwary. It's my job to stop them."
--Pershingly Iron Soul
Humanoid parents sometimes jokingly threaten their children with various fey boogey men. Humanoid children might blame a broken vase or other minor mischief on a Pixie, Grig, or Gremlin. For most people, these creatures are just fanciful tall tales. A few, however, take them seriously -- indeed, with deadly earnestness. The moral ambiguity of fey disturbs, frightens, or threatens their philosophies. To them, fey are not lovely creatures with a somewhat whimsical worldview; instead, the Fair Folk are hideous, aberrant creatures that manipulate minds and hearts. The most fanatical of the fey haters become cold iron warriors.
Individuals from any class can find themselves at odds with individual Fey, a Fey community, or even one of the courts. Few choose to become Cold Iron Warriors who focus their time and effort on killing fey.
Cold Iron Warriors tend to be fanatics who pursue their quarry with unswerving devotion. They work alone or in small groups with others who share their loathing of Fey. On rare occasions, a cold iron warrior will suppress his disgust to work with one Fey faction against another, to most effectively kill Fey, but these relationships rarely last long and the Cold Iron Warrior often turns on his Fey sponsors.
Dark Tales
Stories of fey abound, depicting the creatures as mysterious, mischievous, or malicious, depending on the tale and teller. Cold iron warriors, however, have ears for only the dark legends.
One tale tells of a sad knight waiting by a lake for the beautiful fey woman. The man starves to death straining for a glimpse of the water sprite with whom he fell in love.
In another fable, the Queen of Air and Darkness arrives at a castle during a party. Using magic, she put all of the women to sleep. She then dances with all of the men until they die of exhaustion. The castle's queen awakens to find the corpses of her husband and sons.
Everyone has heard the fairy tale stories of mermaids or nixies rescuing drowning sailors. The tales become more terrifying in cold iron warrior versions where the fey cause the sailors to jump into the water and drown them or keep them on the surface only to let them die slowly of thirst