Fairies

Fairies are kin to Pixys and yet share very little in resemblance. Fairy skin is silver-gold in color and tends to be luminous, especially during the night. Female fairies have butterfly-like wings whereas males have moth-like ones. Both are translucent. Hair color varies between silvery-white to the blackest of shades. Average height for fairies, regardless of gender, is six and a half inches. An Unbonded fairy will live up to two hundred and eighty years, yet a Bonded fairy will live as long as it's Bondee.
Fairy wings have medicinal purposes and are known to cure almost any illness or disease. There is a lucrative black market sale of fairy wings, despite being extremely taboo, and most are sold within Lorasea. There is only one known wild swarm of fairies left and they live within Steelwood Motte of Lorasea. It is said, that the Valterion's have a breeding program wherein they harvest fairy wings and mix it in their slave-food.
The Bond: Noble and royal families throughout Orcosi and Marsea have Bonded with fairies throughout the past three centuries. Bonding, once rare, now happens to hundreds of children yearly. Both parties must be young, or else the Bonding will not take. It is a soul-bond, wherein theurgist spell the two souls together. One can feel what the other feels and they can communicate without speech. It is not necessarily internal dialogue, but a sense of knowing what the other is feeling or thinking. If a Bonded human were to die, so would their fairy. Yet, if their fairy died, said human would not die. They would, however, feel as though a part of their soul is being shredded. Some deBonded humans have noted that once their fairy is resting within the Staarsgarden, they have received visions of the afterlife and what it entails.