"True... but it also made her easy to snatch, I guess. Physically unimposing, at any rate... I don't think they knew what she was. Just knew she wasn't quote-unquote normal. Had they known what she was, they may have anticipated the fact that she has a brother who gets a bit miffed at that sort of thing. One of the mortals helped him raise a group and they stormed the castle, getting her back. Or something. I was rather preoccupied at the time. It seemed to stop as abruptly as it started... until everyone started manifesting weird powers. That... that you might have noticed."