Fairy
The Feywild is home to many fantastic peoples, including fairies. Fairies are a wee folk, but not nearly as much so as their pixie and sprite friends. The first fairies spoke Elvish, Goblin, or Sylvan, and encounters with human visitors prompted many of them to learn Common as well.
Infused with the magic of the Feywild, most fairies look like Small elves with insectile wings, but each fairy has a special physical characteristic that sets the fairy apart.
Basic Information
Anatomy
Fairies resembled tiny elves, with reports placing them variously at 3.5 feet to as little as 1 foot in height. Most commonly, they had silvery, moth-like wings and preferred to wear brightly colored clothing. However, some fairies had different style wings or even insectile limbs.
Ecology and Habitats
Most sprites were hunter-gatherers who lived in small groups, either as nomads like the grigs or in tiny villages. Sprites typically preferred to live in temperate forest regions.
Dietary Needs and Habits
Omnivore, but almost all fairies preferred vegetarianism.
Biological Cycle
Most fairies preferred the night-time, due to their small size and numerous predators. However, there were many communities who adapted to a daylight cycle if they believed they had a secure and well-hidden community. Even then, there would be at least half of the population on a nocturnal cycle.
Behaviour
As a group, fairies were shy, mischievous fey who hated ugliness and evil. They would fight to protect their homes if necessary, whether through combat or trickery.
Additional Information
Social Structure
Fairy villages each had different clans or families in it; community loyalty was very important to pixies.
Geographic Origin and Distribution
While most fairy-folk lived in the Feywild, fairies were one of the braver - or foolish - fey creatures and many lived in the Prime Material as well. Whether they were born there, got trapped there during a prank, were exiled by one of the Fae Courts, or just had a sense of adventure, there are numerous Fairy villages in the Realms.
They preferred to live in temperate forest regions, making their villages in deep forests or caves.
In North Faerûn, they inhabited the woods of Cormanthyr. In Northwest Faerûn, they inhabited the Laughing Hollow. On the various islands, they inhabited caves deep in the forests of Evermeet. On the Moonshae Isles they could be found in many of its deciduous and coniferous forests, in particular the Myrloch Vale, as well as the kingdom of Sarifal and Llyrath Forest on Gwynneth Isle.
In the Unapproachable East, pixies could be found around the woodlands of Aglarond, including the grassy meadow known as Halendos.
Civilization and Culture
Naming Traditions
Their names often follow compound or single-noun patterns, like Cobweb, Dimple, Honeymint, Starbug, Candlewings, Flare, Wildglow, or Sugarnoodles
Major Organizations
Fae Courts; primarily the Summer Court.
Major Language Groups and Dialects
Common, Sylvan
Elvish was also fairly common.
3 ft
30 lbs
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