Pixies
Pixies are a race of Sprites.
A childlike perspective. Pixies experience the world much as children do. They focus on the present, concerning themselves little with the past or the future. This is not to say that a pixie is not deeply saddened by the passing of a close companion, or that pixies are incapable of real emotion. Pixies simply don’t dwell long on such matters, instead committing fully to the present moment and the experiences it has to offer. They give their full attention and interest to the task at hand, but cannot be bothered to reflect on the events of yesterday or tomorrow. For this reason, some creatures view them as flighty and capricious, even as others see them as a wise mystic, free from attachment and constantly living to their fullest potential.
Basic Information
Ecology and Habitats
Pixies make their homes in deep forests or hidden grottos beneath the hills, far beyond the sight of other humanoids. In these places, pixies cast their shimmering lights to color their domains in incandescent hues, gradually shifting from soft red to bright yellow to deep violet and back again.
Additional Information
Social Structure
Pixie settlements vary as widely as the shifting spectrum of color found in them. Isolated pixies build their homes among the roots of great trees in settlements similar to those of the gnomes. Larger pixie settlements resemble kingdoms in miniature, expanding to fill underground caverns or the insides of entire hills. Wild pixies live high up in the trees, where they tame birds and arboreal mammals for war and labor.
Pixie communities are ruled by nobility, usually a hereditary king, queen, prince, or princess. Pixie monarchs are at once wise, graceful, fierce, and powerful—a wonder to behold. Although pixie rulers enjoy mischief and play as much as any other member of their race, their responsibility keeps such behavior in check.
Geographic Origin and Distribution
Though pixies prefer to keep out of sight, they can be found almost anywhere in the Feywild.
Civilization and Culture
Common Dress Code
Many pixies enjoy wearing bright colored clothing.
Interspecies Relations and Assumptions
Pixies are usually bold, funny and curious. They do not know fear, and sometimes it put them in situations of life and death. These fey have good relations with the other races, but often end up earning the hatred of someone with a short temper, because they don't know the right time to say what they thought.
Possessive of things, protective of friends. Though they abhor typical civilization, pixies have a strong sense of ownership. They do not keep many possessions, but those they do carry—a bird skull helmet, a bat wing cloak, a fine ribbon, a silver bell—are their treasures. No pixie will tolerate another creature handling such possessions without permission. By the same token, pixies see their friends as possessions. Anyone who threatens to harm their companions rouses their ire and will likely suffer for it.
Braver, bolder, and fiercer than they appear. Though pixies are tiny in stature, they exhibit a bravery that surpasses their size. When pixies take to arms, they fight with a singular ferocity. In their mail of shining leather, scales, or insect shells, they resemble miniature versions of the eladrin stalwarts of old.
Genetic Ancestor(s)
Average Height
6 inches to 1.5 feet tall
Average Weight
1–4 lb.
Related Ethnicities
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