Satyrs/Fauns

The only one I can think of off-hand is Grover from the Percy Jackson series.

I like the idea of fauns/satyrs. I would love a novel that showed a little more of the dangerous side of fauns/satyrs since Mr. Tumnus is pretty tame. Even a more adult book that features them would be nice since both Grover and Mr. Tumnus appear in YA novels.

I believe that Susan McLeod has a satyr as a romantic interest in the Spellcrackers series. Very contemporary.

Ardent Kat said:

What are your thoughts about satyrs as a fantasy species?

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Are they like the Ancient Greek ones who all seem to suffer from priapism and anorgasmia? (What a silly basis for a fantasy race...but then some of my classics professors were a little off, and it was a long time ago, so I may be suffering a case of pars non tota...that seems misplelled to me)

The MG Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull has several satyrs. They're pretty colorful characters.

GeorgeK said:

Are they like the Ancient Greek ones who all seem to suffer from priapism and anorgasmia?

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I don't remember any Greek satyrs who were said to be always at full alert, so to speak, and simultaneously unable to achieve orgasm.

Bartholomew said:

I don't remember any Greek satyrs who were said to be always at full alert, so to speak, and simultaneously unable to achieve orgasm.

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It came up (pun not intended) in I believe a 500 level Archeology course having to do with Greek vase paintings, the red and black period if I'm remembering correctly. Someone asked why the satyrs were so ugly and cross-eyed. The professor explained the theory of their frustration and insanity due to prancing around with the wood nymphs (meniodes? that name doesn't look right) who were nymphomaniacs, and that one of the gods blessed the females with non-deflatable partnes while simultaneously cursing the males with non-deflating members. There was a lot of stuff at the graduate level that was never presented at the undergrad level. I was never completely sure if the schoolboys' versions had been cleaned up for the masses, or if the graduate level stuff had been smutted down for individual professors' sensibilities. It seemed to me that a lot of the artwork depicting a whole range of fetishes et al. all came from too few dig sites, leading me to wonder if the sample was a normal distribution or if they happened to have dug up the equivalent of Hugh Hefner's compound.

I'm sure you've seen movie Pan's Labyrinth. That's how i imagine a faun, a little bit dangerous and mysterious. I think i'd love to have this kind of character in my WIP.