Many thanks, gnu.
I didn't want to be the one to get post number 57400.
Always like to leave those for
Rapparee the Imperious and His Closest Associates,
like yourself, the Imperial Game Warden.

If Sylvie and Bruno is not to your taste,
you may disregard this part of my post.

Rapparee has left out / forgotten a plot detail
which is used to hold the story together.

Two little children have a father, and their father
is an important means, as the children are,
for linking the diverse kingdoms / "realities."

Though the children are evidently part fairy/elf/whatever,
they may travel as far as
human "reality" where they meet with the Englishwomen and -men,
in Elveston, out in the country.

The children's father, who is never given a name, only an office,
does not appear in Elveston or in England.

He is the acting Warden of Outland, however, and
he has just been chosen King of Elfland,
which is part of but not the whole of the fairy realm.

One ongoing part of the plot, from beginning to end,
is the father's transition from Warden of Outland
to King of Elfland.
The father is hard at work putting this transition into place;
it is one reason that his children are under the care of others in Outland,
while he moves back and forth between kingdoms.

There are indeed satires about academia. There are other satires in place,
and these figure largely in the Outland episodes/chapters.
As in the heading for one of the first chapters:

"Less Bread! More Taxes!"
How COULD you forget that one?
Or the riposte of the villainous Wife of the Vice-Warden:
"It runs in families,
much as a love of pastry does."