Fairy

, also faeries, are a race of beings acting as extensions of the Planet, considered the "sense of touch" of nature.
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==History==
With the coming of the Age of Man, the Fairies retreated to the Reverse Side of the World along with the other Phantasmal Species. As the Age of Gods took longer to disappear in the British Isles than in the rest of the world, Fairies there continued to interact with humans for longer.
===Celtic Mythology===
Fionn mac Cumhaill had seven years of his youth stolen by a Fairy.Fate/Grand Order material III - Fionn mac Cumhaill, p.124-133 (translated by crow_claw at Reddit.)
Diarmuid Ua Duibhne was raised by the Fairy Kings, the God of Love and the Sea God Manannán mac Lir, being given the swords Moralltach and Beagalltach and the spear Gáe Buidhe by Manannán mac Lir, as well as the spear Gáe Dearg by Aengus.Fate/Grand Order - Profile of Diarmuid Ua Duibhne (Saber) (translated by Kinalvin on Reddit)Fate/Grand Order - Manannán mac Lir (Bazett) Profile (translated by PKFreezeAlpha) Manannán possessed many Noble Phantasms and was known as a "person who gives". Manannán gave many weapons to heroes from Irish mythology. 
Within Celtic legends, it is told that Manannán's Fairy wife had fallen in love with Cú Chulainn. When she later returned along with Cú Chulainn, asking for Manannán's permission to be with her new lover, the Fairy King used a magic cloak to conceal the two lovers' forms, erasing Cú Chulainn's memory of Fand after their affair, so Fand would not be taken again.
Medb has Fairy blood in her lineage.Fate/Grand Order - Medb Interlude 2: My Lovely...
===Arthurian Legend===
The Fairy Vivian granted King Arthur the holy sword ExcaliburFate/stay night - Saber profile and RhongomyniadGarden of Avalon - Chapter 02: The Light of the Stars after the loss of Caliburn. She also raised Lancelot as his foster mother and gave him Arondight. After the defeat of Vortigern, the Fairies worked alongside Arthur to construct Camelot.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Avalon le Fae: Fae Round Table Domain - Chapter 3 Section 2 Arthur's wicked older sister Morgan le Fay was an evil Fairy and counterpart to Vivian,Fate/Grand Order - Morgan Profile (Translated by ridethelightning469) and both she and Vivian were said to have carried Arthur to Avalon upon Arthur's death.Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Volume 7: case. Atlas Contract (Lower) - Chapter 2 Part 3
===Other===
Mandricardo made an oath to the Fairies that he would not wield any sword until he obtained Durandal.
==Characteristics==
===Proper Human History===
Most Fairies are beings humans cannot naturally perceive, normally viewable only through Glam Sight Mystic Eyes. There do exist certain Fairies born wearing "human imagination" as perceivable shells, and those that can be fully perceived by humans are of the Elemental class, like Arcueid Brunestud (Remake). 
The Thaumaturgical Foundations of Fairies and Elementals are of a Mystery unable to be reached through Magecraft. Fairies do not need to rely on Magecraft, as they can perform Mysteries without the use of things like Thaumaturgical Foundations, Mystic Codes, or Formulas. In fact, they look down on people who do need to go through all the trouble of performing Magecraft.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Avalon le Fae: Fae Round Table Domain - Chapter 2 Section 2 Instead of Magic Circuits, Fairies have Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Avalon le Fae: Fae Round Table Domain - Chapter 3 Section 1 or ,Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Avalon le Fae: Round Table Domain - Chapter 14 Section 1 which are far superior to a human's Magic Circuits.
There are various types of Fae: Those who have fallen from the rank of a God; an accumulation of human and animal grudges plus dregs of their souls; thoughts with no other place to go, reborn as an empty human rumor. These are Fae that are born from human society and strictly speaking, not genuine. Genuine Fae come from within the Planet, unrelated to human society. They develop from the Inner Sea of the Planet. 
These Fae which come from within the Inner Sea of the Planet are known in the Magecraft world as or and can be thought of as Divided Spirits of the Gaia's soul. They're about the same scope as an anthropomorphized nature divinity, but unlike those Gods, they are not clothed in human rules. Great Fathers and Mothers are pure transcendent existences. Vivian/Morgan le Fay was one of these Great Mothers.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Avalon le Fae: Fae Round Table Domain - Chapter 4 Section 2 (Oberon's fairy explanation, translated by You)
All Fairies are born independently of each other. Fairies with similar attributes refer to each other as siblings. Offspring are those born to succeed Fairies who have fulfilled their purpose and passed on. This relationship is referred to as “current generation” and “previous generation”, though there is no connection like that of humans, since Fairies are born independently. Abilities and appearances are similar between generations (for example, Aesc and Artoria Caster look the same because they are Fairies born with the same purpose), so a Fairy will always know who they are no matter when or where they’re born. Rarely, even though the “current generation” is still alive, a Fairy resembling them is born. In these instances, the Fairy can be considered an offspring of the “current generation”.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Avalon le Fae: Fae Round Table Domain - Chapter 6 Section 3
Fairies are essentially immortal and do not have the same lifespan as humans or animals. When a Fairy is born they have a purpose deep in their hearts. If they lose their purpose they lose their name as well, and without a name they gradually waste away until they die. Fairies who have lost their names are hated by other Fairies.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Avalon le Fae: Fae Round Table Domain - Chapter 1 Section 5 A Fairy who becomes too absorbed in their purpose however will lose sight of themselves and endlessly generate Magical Energy to the point they cannot maintain their form. These are considered to be evil Fairies.
Humans are an indispensable source of nourishment for Fairies. Just being near a human greatly increases morale, a kind of spiritual fulfillment.
Fairies do not get hungry and do not need to eat, though they enjoy eating and throwing parties for fun.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Avalon le Fae: Fae Round Table Domain - Chapter 1 Section 6
"Iron Weapons" can injure Fairies. Above all else, iron manufacturing played a crucial part in human technological advancements.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Avalon le Fae: Fae Round Table Domain - Chapter 9 Section 1 Fairies are poisoned by exposure to advanced technology such as the Black Barrel.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Avalon le Fae: Fae Round Table Domain - Section 29: A Prophecy 
Fairies can see through lies with their . Not the Mystic Eyes that people possess, but the field of vision that "switches over the world", which Fairies are endowed with from birth. The Fairy Eyes possessed by high ranking Fairies are described as eyes capable of seeing through all lies and projecting the truth. Since good will and ill will are both lumped together by Fairies, this is a mostly meaningless supernatural power as far as they are concerned. Still, nothing good will come out from a human that feels perplexed by the differences between good and evil possessing these eyes.Fate/Grand Order - Artoria Caster Profile (After Lostbelt 6) (Translated by Master of Chaos)
Items that are granted by Fairies, such as Arondight, Avalon, Excalibur and Gáe Buidhe bear engraved inscriptions with , one of the lost languages, to show they were not crafted by human hands.Fate/Zero Volume 1: The Untold Story of the Fourth Holy Grail War - Act 1 Part 2 -282:14:28
Avalon is said to be the "Land of Fairies."
===English Lostbelt===
====Sub-Bells====
Within the English Lostbelt, Fairies of the Great Father and Mother ranks who appear on the surface to solve a problem or on a mission from the Planet are known as A-Rei. It is a term close to Elementals or True Ancestors, and called A-Rays outside of Lostbelts.Fate/Grand Order - Archetype: Earth's profile 
Sub-Bells are Great Mother/Father-class Fairies who have "their own will", their own truths. The essence of these Fae carry properties that reshape the World. This is known as a , the great Mystery powerful Fae possess. 
Known Fae Domains:
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*Cnoc na Riabh's domain
*Muryan's Gloucester
*Nameless Woods
*Foul Weather (Skill)
Furthermore, just by being present, Sub-Bells increase the number of , also known as offspring. or are known to be these offspring. These are the majority of Fae in Fairyland. Compared to Sub-Bell their power only consists of the tip of a nail, but offspring are offspring. Some strongly inherit the blood of the Sub-Bells. Two known inheritors of Sub-Bell blood are Cnoc na Riabh and Muryan. Most other Sub-Bells have perished and became wandering wraiths called Fairy Dreadlords, who have been cursed with a purpose that they cannot possibly fulfill.
Fairies in the English Lostbelt take humans as slaves, and fascinated by human culture, they have built a society modeled on the humans'. While Fairies in Proper Human History lived as one with nature, the Fairies of the Lostbelt live in cities and craft goods. But it is only a facsimile, and they don't truly understand the meanings behind what they are copying from humans.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Avalon le Fae: Fae Round Table Domain - Chapter 2 Section 3 When a Fairy owns a human, they form a magical bond similar to a Master/Servant contract.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Avalon le Fae: Fae Round Table Domain - Chapter 3 Section 5
The Fairies of this world gave up their Fairy Eyes that can see through lies long ago.
====Moss====
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When Fairies die, their corpses change and become part of Britain.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Avalon le Fae: Fae Round Table Domain - Chapter 13 Section 8 However, Fairies in the Lostbelt who die by losing their purpose become : life that can no longer speak or hear, the black algae that pollutes the world with its existence, the curse of Britain, killer of Fairies. 
The Moss are a curse affecting most the Fairies in this Lostbelt, originating from the six Fairies who founded Faerie Britain on their sins. All Faeries descended from the six who betrayed Cernunnos are doomed to waste away as punishment for their sins and refusal to repent. 
It takes a long time for a Fairy to decay fully, but once the transformation is complete they can infect any other Fairy through mere contact, making even a slight touch a death sentence. Some Fairies have taken to using Moss flesh as a poison coating their weapons. For humans and Servants, touching a Moss is harmless, which is why some humans are drafted as soldiers. even though Fairies are much stronger on average. However, Beryl Gut later modifies the curse into a form that can also spread to humans, affecting them in the same way as Fairies, creating the . There also exists a Dragon-shaped variant of the Moss called , created by Tamamo Vitch Koyanskaya in the shape of Albion as "What once was" using the magical elements left by Albion's rotting flesh that had turned into a lake of the most foul substance in the Lostbelt made of the same substance as Moss, along with 8,000 years worth of grudges of the northern Fairies massacred in the Summer War at the same place, brimming with hatred for Fairies and. The magical energy of this Moss Dragon was so great that it exceeded that of the Calamity of Norwich.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Avalon le Fae: Fae Round Table Domain, Section 18
====Fairy Clans====
Fairies in the English Lostbelt are divided into clans that function like ethnic groups: the Wind Clan, Earth Clan, Fang Clan, Wing Clan, Mirror Clan, King Clan, and formerly the Rain Clan. The clan system was established after the Summer War between Mab's Fairies of the north and the Fairies of the south 4,000 years ago. Not all Fairies are a part of one; for example, Artoria isn't part of any clan. 
*: Fairies that look like humans, like Harobalomia. Peaceful and rational, with an excellent divine form. Their leader is Aurora.
*: A hardy, tight-knit race resembling dwarves, like Onfam. The hardest working who help construct buildings and roads. Their leader is Spriggan.
*: Animalistic Fairies like Doga who live as one with the earth like a pack of wolves. Belligerent, but very strong; the Fairies of the Lostbelt were able to survive because the Fang Clan fought for them. Their leader is Woodwose.
*: Fairies smaller than the rest, like Habetrot. Except for Muryan, they were wiped out 1200 years ago by the Fang Clan.
*: Once the most populous clan in the Fairy lands, each able to see the future, but Melusine massacred the clan on Aurora's orders six years ago. Their leader is Ainsel.
*: The cause of all discord, division, and conflict in Britain, led by Cnoc na Riabh, a single peerless individual who looks down on all others.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Avalon le Fae: Fae Round Table Domain - Chapter 1 Section 3
*: A peaceful clan that was once part of the six clans before they were all massacred by an alliance of the Wind, Earth, Fang, and Wing clans for protecting the Fairy of Paradise.
====Fairies of Paradise====
Fairies of Paradise are Fairies dispatched from Avalon for the purpose of getting the Fairies of the six clans to admit the guilt of their sins and inherit the Mystery of the Holy Sword's creation.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Avalon le Fae: Fae Round Table Domain - Section 19: OrkneyFate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Avalon le Fae: Fae Round Table Domain - Section 27: Epoch of Creation They are sent from Avalon as “star seeds” and those that reach Earth sprout as juveniles and age as humans do until they reach adulthood. Because of this, they are also known as “growing Fairies”. They also can touch iron without issue, and are immune to the Moss curse and memory alteration.
==Role==
===Kara no Kyoukai===
Satsuki Kurogiri was kidnapped by Fairies at the age of ten, who made him lose all his past memory and cursed him so that he could still store future memories in his brain, but could not retrieve those memories and recognize them as his own. He eventually killed every Fairy he came across when he escaped. In order to cope with his problem, he had to store his visual information in descriptive words, so that he could recognize it the next time he saw it; however, if the object he had seen had changed in any way, he was still unable to recognize it. Satsuki managed to learn the Unified Language from his contact from the Fairies. However, in reality, the Fairies did not actually kidnap him, but instead he killed them in some kind of Mad Dream, and his current mental state is a result of their last curse in vengeance.
===Lord El-Melloi II Case Files===
Doctor Heartless had his heart stolen by the Fairies. Betrayed by his fellow students, Kurou Adashino was thrown down a hole in the Spiritual Tomb of Albion that led to the Land of Fairies. After his encounter with the Fairies he used his Mystic Eyes of Finding to find an exit, only to find once he returned to the human world that he had traveled to the past because the land of Fairies was outside of time and space. Calling himself Heartless, he decided to complete the time loop he now realized he was in to get his revenge. He decided to tear down the Magecraft society that allowed such a betrayal to exist.Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Volume 10: case. Grand Resolution (Lower)
After making contact with the Fairy Faye, Trevor Pelham Codrington created artificial Black Dog Fairies to create his own Wild Hunt. Upon realizing his true intentions, Faye killed him, but the Black Dogs continued to propagate even after his death. The incident at his estate opened a temporary door to Fairyland through which his son Wills Pelham Codrington entered.
===Fate/Grand Order===
During his time managing the English Lostbelt, Beryl Gut had somehow incurred the wrath and anger of Fairies and has now become constantly targeted by them. The exact specifics and mechanics of this condition is unknown, but whenever Beryl declares his presence out loud, he immediately becomes targeted by Rhongomyniad, regardless of him being within the native English Lostbelt of its owner or in another Lostbelt altogether. Beryl had essentially taken advantage of this condition to target both himself and his enemies by declaring his presence and having the Lance be fired at both himself and his intended target, as seen where Kirschtaria Wodime was forced to expand the majority of his magical energy into his defensive Magecraft to defend himself and block it and had thus then left him open to be attacked by Beryl himself.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Olympus: Interstellar Mountain City - Section 23: The Day a God is Shot Down
==Known Fairies==
*Ábartach
*Ainsel
* Artoria Avalon
*Aurora
*Baobhan Sith (Lostbelt)
*Barghest (Lostbelt)
*Boggart
*Britomart
*Coral
*Doga
*Dracae
*Ector (Lostbelt only)
*Faye
*Foul Weather
*Gareth (Lostbelt only)
*Gringolet
*Habetrot
*Harobalomia
*Cnoc na Riabh
*Mab
*Manannán mac Lir
*Melusine (Lostbelt)
* Mike
*Morgan le Fay (Lostbelt) / Vivian
*Muryan
*Nameless fairy
*Oberon 
*Onfam
*Redra Bbit
*Rob
*Viy
*Vortigern (Lostbelt)
*Wag
*Winky
*Woodwose
*Wryneck
==Types ==
===Black Dog===
 are a type of Fairy said to appear at crossroads, and an incarnation of thunder. They are said to devour the souls of the deceased. They are associated with the Wild Hunt.Fate/Grand Order - Sherlock Holmes Interlude: Thinking Back to Lost Times Evil Fairies from the Unseelie Court, Black Dogs follow the rotten smell of mortal life and even eat other Fairies.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Avalon le Fae: Fae Round Table Domain - Fragment 2
The ones encountered by Lord El-Melloi II, Gray, and Kairi Sisigou at the Marburry Workshop are artificial Fairies created by Trevor Pelham Codrington. On days where the alignment of the moon and stars heightened powers of the underworld and the Earth, people who entered the Workshop were killed by a Black Dog. The victims were then transformed into Black Dogs themselves by the Workshop using the Fairies' power and Fairy Eyes.Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Rail Zeppelin Grace note - Episode 5: "The Lance that shines at the End of the World"
Barghest is said to be a type of Black Dog specific to northern England, a chained dog with burning horns and eyes. She is a type of Black Dog that brings death in the countryside, and appears in cities when someone dies.Fate/Grand Order — Fairy Knight Gawain Profile (translated by Konchew) She can also transform humans into Black Dogs.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Avalon le Fae: Fae Round Table Domain - Chapter 3 Section 7
The Hound of the Baskervilles that Sherlock Holmes once encountered was close in nature to the Black Dogs. Arthur Conan Doyle obfuscated the Hound's true nature when he turned Holmes' case into a novel, removing all references to Magecraft and the Mage's Association.
===Familiar===
Misaya Ouji, granted the ability by Satsuki Kurogiri, utilizes Familiars using Fairy-like shells, but they are not the real thing. The false Fairies are normally formless, low rank spirits that have been granted the image of woodland Fairies. These shells allow them to wield a portion of real Fairies' power.
===Goblin===
===Human-Eating Fairies===
 are a subset found in the Seventh Labyrinth of Caubac Alcatraz. They are Familiars around 20-30 centimeters in height.
===Spriggan===
===Witch===
Witches are Fairies, they do not have children. Beryl Gut's mother said that she was her own mother.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Avalon le Fae: Fae Round Table Domain - Section 29: A Certain Prophecy
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