HOWEVER, Queen Mab is a notable exception to the you-should-marry-a-faery rule. "Queen Mab" is known to be a Celtic/Vanaheimr aspect of Nerthus, the cthonic Earth-Mother, Queen of Witches and First Daughter of Night (literally; her mother was the primordial jotuness, Nott, the ancient personification of Night who arose from the mists of Elivagar in the Time Before the Gods). For many turnings of the wheel, Mab was the matriarchal ruler of the Vanir gods, a sort of feminine anti-Odin; she is credited as the great architect/inventor of sorcery (seidr), and as the mother of a staggering number of divine beings - including Frey and Freyja (with her brother-husband, Njordr), Gefjon (via parthenogenisis), Gullveig (the Thot who nearly destroyed the gods, and whose Begonening triggered the Aesir/Vanir War), and even the greatest of all the gods, Thor (with Odin). Like Loki, Mab became extremely evil over time, and plotted the downfall of the Aesir - she was the primary belligerent of the Aesir/Vanir War, and though she was eventually slain by Odin himself, Mab was such a powerful sorceress that echoes of her magic persist to this day, causing all manner of blight, pestilence, bewitchment, deviancy, and necromancy, to afflict the good people of the Empire.