Faerie

Created on a multitude of crystal spheres by a multitude of primordial beings, the faerie often shared few common traits accross The Material Plane , sometimes being vaguley modeled after their creator. What they did share were immortal bodies (safe for violent destruction), limbs and sensory organs with which they could preceive and interact with the world on which they had been spawned, and an instilled sentience that allowed them to generate and leak psychic energy which their creator would consume.

Discovering Magic

After existing contently for a time, all fey would discover their strange extrasensory perception that came with the spillage of psychic energy inherent to their mode of existence. In perceiving reality without filtered perception, they could perceive a thing, its history, its present, and its nature, allowing them to speak its true name and thus gaining great power over it. They came to the river and they spoke "split!", and the river split into many forks, making the land fertile and plenty. They turned to the grasses and brushes and spoke "grow!", and they grew into the first, great trees, which they made their homes around. They made the world their own, and it was good.

Banishment

For a while, this was all well and good, until the primordial beings realized that in utilizing their energy spillage, less and less of that energy made it into their ever hungry mouths, and thus they spoke the name of reality and split their worlds in two, pushing their first children into a small pocket plane, which only ever would be an echo of the true prime Material Plane, The Realm of Faerie. With this the fey fell out of favor with their creator, and effectively replaced by the second children, mortal creatures, who were bound to make use of magic only by means of the weave, the tapestry into which the primordial beings had begun to weave the spillage of energy from all creatures.

Eternal Growth and the Song of Life

Left to themselves, cut off from their creator, the fey felt the better for it, relishing in the growing multitude of life around them. And they spoke the names of the grass and the trees and the water and the stones and the wind and the earth freely, telling them how best to grow, granting them the benefit of their sentience and the perspective that came with it. They grew to love the dim star shine that fell through the veil of the crystal sphere even onto their remote demiplane and wove beautiful garments out of them. The land grew and grew, and soon was lush and grand, wrought with bright colors and sweet smells, a garden of beautiy compared to which the prime Material Plane from which theirs once echoed looked barren and bleak. No wonder, the second children were drawn towards the Realm.

Basic Information

Genetics and Reproduction

Faerie were usually incapable of reproduction, but as the curious mortal races that were the second children invaded the depths of the Realm of Faerie and found it beautiful, and found its inhabitants beautiful, the Faerie too took interest in them, and found away to name that which not yet was, creating their off-spring, who would one day become the Faerie Races.

Ecology and Habitats

The Faerie usually live in their home plane, the Realm of Faerie, a land of plenty, made so by their own devices, as they called the landscape by its name to imbue it with the pulsating power of life.

Dietary Needs and Habits

In the beginning, most incarnations of the Faerie did not need to consume matter to keep moving, surviving on sunlight alone. But as they named the landscape and made things grow, they took a liking to the cycle of life, and took to eating the fruits of the trees, and the berries of the bushes, taking part of them into their bodies, while enriching the rest with the sunlight they absorbed and the clear water they drunk to excret rich dung with which to bless the land.

Additional Information

Average Intelligence

Ancient Faerie are often not as intelligent as your average human, as they were not created with superior brain power in mind. However, they are usually incredibly wise, having a fundamental understanding of the nature of all things. Methodical thinking on the other hand may strain them, and cause some discomfort becuase it destracts from perceiving the natural beauty of the universe in their minds.

Perception and Sensory Capabilities

Faerie or 'Ur-Fey' possess sensory organs often allowing for at least sight, hearing and tactile sensation, though expressed in many varied forms. They also possess an extra sensory, unfiltered perception of reality allowing them to discover the true names of things.

Civilization and Culture

Naming Traditions

Before the first time one of them betrayed another, they all called eachother by their true names. But in time a sense of caution developed from the fear of openly giving such power over oneself, so they hid their full true names, referring to eachother only by the first syllibal of that name.

Beauty Ideals

To faerie, what grows naturally, be it plant or creature, is beautiful, even the second children, who themselves often perceived eachother to be less than the beautiful faerie. They also appreciate the many qualities of light, be it starlight, moonlight or sunlight. Artificial light sources seem strange too them, but are often thought of as arrousing, because in faerie society, the appreciation of artificial light such as fire is thought to be unhaughty, and is only done in secret. It is one of the reasons the second children, when they came seemed so enticing to them.

Major Language Groups and Dialects

Knowing the name of all things by heart, they used those names to communicate in the beginning, meaning that any conversation between them caused the land and air around them to sing and breathe, making the conversation one conducted through the very world around them. In time, when they came in contact with the second children, the faerie heard the strange tongue of mortal creatures and perceived the true meaning of it, just as they did of the creatures themselves, and they spoke the words as if they had always known them.

Common Taboos

Tempered metal, artificial lights and complex machinery often fascinated the faerie, but were thought of as so unnatural, that amongst eachother they frowned upon it. And the hated iron in particular caused them strange pain, when they touched it, making the carrying of iron a taboo among faerie.

Interspecies Relations and Assumptions

The faerie of many worlds had relationships with the second children of those worlds. Usually when those second children ventured into the Realm of Faerie using magic, or secret points of contact. When they did, the faerie were curious about these strange new creatures that could end and return to the earth like trees and plants, but communicate and feel like themselves, even spilling the psychic energy like them. Often, faerie would sort of adopt mortal creatures that ventured into their realm, observe and feed them, and try to understand their strange ways. And on rare occasions, they even fell in some form of love, bending to the mortal beings' wishes to create offspring, born from their desire for continuity. This was a difficult thing to manage, but in knowing the names of all things around them, the faerie found a way to name that which not yet was, and their offspring was created.

Origin/Ancestry

Realm of Faerie

Lifespan

eternal