Punishments

[raccoonmask]

A few questions:
Access to the Redcap's corpse to ask its spirit questions? Or was it buried in a churchyard?
Was this Redcap young and had few to no magical items to aid in escape? (If he had a cloak of teleportation, not getting away is his fault, as example).
I'm curious as to what kind of faeries they were.

As far as,

@silveroak

faeries will act vengefully at the drop of a hat, sure, but rarely fatally. Given that people they interact with are the source of their vitality most faeries would rather force you to kill them (temporarily) than kill a person they have a strong sense of engagement with. Not that they will hesitate to kill a human if that draws someone else more interesting into the story, but where lethal vengeance is about bringing things to an end, faeries prefer to have long running feuds.

I always was under the impression that faeries probably won't kill anyone who's following the story properly (sovereign wards, et cetera.) But a lot of faeries eat people or kill people to keep the story 'real'. I could also see a faerie noble going to the Redcap and saying, 'You have wounded us, give me your daughter as repayment' and the Redcap justifiably fought back.

[TimOB]

The angle that the Redcap-is-at-fault will be useful for adding a plot twist, so thanks to those suggesting it.

The Redcap's spirit was questioned, but I don't have those notes. I don't know if he'll be brought to the hearing.

[Ramidel]

I'd judge that the maga had committed no crime in saying what she did, though she deserves informal censure for being an idiot. The Redcap was a bigger idiot, interfering with mundanes and molesting the fay.

That said, if the maga were found at fault, the expected punishment for "molest[ing] the fay, to the ruin of [your] sodales" is a Wizard's March. A thirty years' indenture would be an act of mercy on the Tribunal's part, and the maga would be well-advised not to complain.

Whether House Mercere chooses to pursue vengeance against the faeries in question is up to them; they may well decide that Redcap A was an idiot and let it go, or they might decide to seek vengeance for their errant sodale on general principles.