Old Boards
Defunct
Listed approximately by date of latest viable capture, oldest to most recent. Unfortunately, the capture spider was rarely able to crawl any deeper than lists of topics in subforums.
Sidhe in Ęternum's d a r k v a l e - A rather primitive implementation of a message board! (2001)
Otherkin Resource Board - Another primitive message board, associated with the Otherkin Resource Center. (2001)
F.A.E., Faeborn and Astral Entities - to navigate around this capture, delete the "&POSTNUKESID=2aeca03b2f31be59cd16cd3190f29d8a" portion of links from your browser's address bar. (2002)
UnSeelie Message Board (2003)
LadyChrys.com Otherkin/Sidhekin forums (2003)
Shadows of Annwyn (2004)
Other Haven - There have been at least three boards by this name. This link, Other-haven.net, was not the same as this Proboards forum (which never really got off the ground and was overrun by "online pharmacy" spam in early 2014), nor Otherhaven.net without the hyphen. (2004)
Lair of the Hidden (2005)
F.A.E., the Foundation for Awakening and Enlightenment - successor to the above FAE (2005)
Otherkin Alliance - Unfortunately, all later captures than this one, through its actual demise sometime between 2013-2015, can see no deeper than the login page. (2007)
Ethereal Forest (2008)
Otherkin Retreat (2013)
Unicorns on a Human Journey (2013)
The Lost Way - Otherkin/Therians subforum (2014)
Embracing Mystery - The domain is still live, but the board suffered from a phpBB sickness beginning in late 2019 that made posting impossible, and besides that had never recovered activity-wise from (if I remember right) a spam invasion in 2015 that required rebooting the whole board and nuking all the existing content (as evidenced here). As it's effectively dead, I'm placing it here. (2015)
Otherkin Community - Officially taken down in December 2016, and the domain's security certificate expired in mid-2017. Clodaus talked about making some kind of export available to board members, but it never materialized. You can see deeper into the board content in older captures. (2016)
Unicorn Grove (2016)
TirNanOc - Gazer made moves towards resurrecting TirNanOc as a web forum in mid-2013, but it never went anywhere. If you scroll back through the captures, you can see some other incarnations such as a blog host and some other kind of journaling situation. (2018)
Castle Otherkin was a general otherkin forum. (2020)
The Obsidian Spire was a short-lived general alterhuman discussion board, begin in 2021 and already shut down in 2022 (the domain expired and was taken over by squatters, as far as I can see). (2022)
Kinmunity was an alterhuman forum that says it includes otherkin along with therians, vampires, and others. However, it evolved out of a mainly-therian forum (one of those ones that uses "otherkin" terminology but de facto is almost all therians with maybe some theriomythics) and when it shut down in 2022 still gave off that feeling from its choices of "color" language, e.g. private area called "The Dens", help forum called "Whimpers", and logo of an animal paw inside a human hand. (2022)
Live on the Web, but moribund
Ivory Castle - dragons
Plant Your Spirit - plantkin/phytanthropes
Seven Sisters - "a board for all gods, goddesses, demonics, ETs, Otherkin and humans"
The Dreamhart forum - an all-purpose board with general discussion, subforums for both your standard mythfolk (elves, dragons, fae) and some adjacent things (fictionkin, therians, vampires), and assorted magical topics.
Shadow of the Fallen "A place for all Fallen, Shadow, Otherkin and Humans". The subforums related to "The Fallen" and "The Shadow" are at the top, but there are also sections for various other types of otherkin as well as for various esoteric topics like dreams and past-life memories.
Unicorn Grove is oriented specifically towards unicorn otherkin.
Last updated: 2/16/2025