[quote=@Ojo chan 42]
That's is why I made the cross iron, it may have been the mortals foolish believe that a iron cross would work. That's why I wrote fleeing from the iron and the thing with a holster with crosses, I based this of the legend of a laird (lord) who captured one making the Kelpie slave away. The only way to capture a Kelpie is with a holster that has crosses stamped in the leather. 

EDIT: and the man who did this was Elenore's father, Laira's grandfather.
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Yes but since Elenore was the one with a relationship with a Kelpie and this was several years after Caoimhin's capture and death so that wouldn't give him any special Kelpie knowledge.

Clyde may have run from the iron as it can kill him but there is no reason that his sister despite the pain of iron couldn't still drown the man. Iron in any form doesn't have the power to enslave a fae. It merely hurts or kills them. I respect that you're deriving this from old legends and lore but that's not the way it works in LadyRunic's fae universe. If it was the blacksmith's foolish idea that iron crosses would work then they shouldn't have, Caoimhin would have killed him and either died herself of iron exposure or had her brother remove the bridle before it killed her.

Also I think you mean bridle, my sister rides horses and I know of no piece of equipment other than the sheath she keeps her weapon in that could be called a holster. Plus if it was placed on Caoimhin's head as seems to be the case it would be the bridle.

[quote=@Ojo chan 42]
Oh they know each other, but his father left the herd to make it easy for his son to take over the herd. he did not want to fight him for the position of stand-in-leader.
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Wait, so the Kelpie Laira's mother mated with was Clyde's father? Doesn't that make them half siblings, in which case gross.