Although Elvish folk have come from the old world, there is always a particle of the future that they carry illumined brightly within their quick minds that is gifted with foresight, inspiring them with an acute sense of a world just about to happen.
Technically they are not capable of, or ever meant to actually, interfere with the destinies of Men - cross paths they might, but the two streams of evolution are very distinct and separate.
But it so happened that Puck was not purely of Fey heritage, for his lineage's blood was also human, and this gave him an inherited longing for involvement in their kind as well as for those of the vale.
Apart from that fact, he also had the inclination towards a good story and the epic that is Mankind surpassed the seeming frivolity of the etheric world.
And, as a tsunamic tide, the conduct of men washes over the Faerie realm in stormy repercussion - how then could he merely await its advance, to ride yet one more deathless death?
The stories of his famed debauchery had been fabricated over time - all kinds of mischief and gossip made it difficult as historical record to put right.
Puck had loved, and he had overlooked the laws of the day when it was necessary, but he was always true to Humanity with an equal heart, through and through.
-Gabriel Brunsdon, Puck in Hell, Azlander Series
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