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Fairies | The Lore, The History, and The Magic
[Other sources were used in this lore, not completely orginal]
What Is A Fairy?
A fairy is a sub-species of the elven race, sometimes considered the result of interspecies communication between elves and daemons, a race with the physical attributes of humans but have the spiritual power of god-like portions. They are short creatures, ranging from 4'5 to 5'5. They have elvish characteristics such as pointed ears, narrow faces, and bright eyes. Wings are rare among the race, but some fairies are more likely to have wings than others, and they can acquire them in different ways. This displays the diversity of fairies, there are three types: nature, spiritual, and ethereal.
General Racial Attributes
Luck: This means good–or bad–fortune. We’d consider any luck to be a curse because there’s always a cost. Under most situations, the person enters into a contract of some kind or provides a service to the fairy. If you break the contract or you don’t deliver as promised, then you get bad luck.
Invisibility: Some groups of fairies can make themselves hidden to other races, or what we perceive has invisibility.
Healing: Some fairies have the ability to heal people. How they do it depends on the fairy. Very few can use touch to heal. Most of them use an ointment or feed you some of its food.
Clairvoyance: A fairy can grant you the ability to see the future, or see the future for themselves.
Flight: Not all fairies have the same form of flight. Some can fly using their wings if they have any. Some don't need wings. Others can fly to a limited extent or height, or use their powers to mimic a form of flight.
Nimble: It varies fairy to fairy, but a strong fairy will be difficult to hit because of their unearthly speed.
Enhanced Senses: Most fairies have better eyesight, hearing, taste, touch and smell than humans. They can see at night with ease, hear better than dogs, better taste than a sommelier, interpret emotions on touch, and smell better than a bloodhound.
Illumination: Fairies can produce light from their bodies at will.
Resistance: These creatures are quite durable for their small size. They can take a licking and keep on ticking. Within 24 hours, a fairy should be healed and ready to go.
Animal Communication: Many fairies can communicate with animals and understand their emotions. They can summon most animals in their immediate area for protection.
Physical/ Nature Fairies:
These fairies are the most commonly found in Alsa and the closely related to modern elves. They live in forests and worship elven gods. Their magic is tied to the elements, animals, and other druidic abilities. They are the tallest fairy group and could most likely live in Alsa as an elf, but very few fairies have an interest outside their village. They view the rest of Alsa as corrupt and unpure.
This type of fairy have all the general attributes: increased agility, dexterity, durability, limited flight, and strong elemental/druidic abilities.
Spiritual Fairies
These type of fairies are less elven and more daemon. They are harder to find, mostly because their abilities can cause outsiders to be unable to see them. Other theories claim that they live on another plane of existence that makes other races unable to see them. They look similar to humans but their bodies are not bound tothe laws of physics. Their bodies can become pure life or translucent, their eyes and hair are unusual compared to their nature counterparts. Finally, they look down on other races including natural fairies as inferiors and weak-minded, comparing themselves as demi-gods.
This type of fairy do not have physical enhancement but have several mental enhancements that could affect their bodies. However, they also live the forest and they could can have some elemental/animalistic/druidic abilities.
Their minds are purely logical and mechanical. They able to perform telepathy and empathy without touch. They can perform telekinesis and create illusions.
They can control energy to a high degree. They can create barriers, absorb the energy of others, create blasts that can destroy an entire city, and build beings of pure energy. Their bodies can be turned into pure energy that can make them fly at the speed of light and make them impervious to attacks. They can also teleport.
No spiritual fairy have every ability listed, but even a couple can give you a hard time if you're not prepared.
Ethereal Fairies
These type of fairies are the rarest and the oldest. They're sometimes called the True Ancestors of the Fairy Race or True Ancestor. They can control space and time, produce energy, see and travel different dimensions, and have a form of immortality. Some don't even think they're not fairies, but elves that became daemons or vice-versa. Ethereal are viewed as concepts of ideas than actual beings. No one is sure of the true power of the ancestors, but they are considered the closest beings to gods.
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