Pixies

Pixies are air spirits, serving Rukh and the Windsons. They appear as diminutive bipeds of whatever form they fancy, though they almost always have gigantic butterfly wings. Singly the creatures are shy and will avoid fighting, though they will take on vaporous form and torment lone individuals. In groups they become vicious and dangerous, swarming into great tempests that can rip the roofs off houses, uproot trees and carry people high into the air where they are then torn apart by dozens of sharp claws. Tales of ‘blood rains’ have been attributed to pixies carrying dozens of animals or men into the sky to be ripped to pieces. When treated well, pixies will carry messages to the Windsons or their mother, and will bring fair weather and calm skies. Likewise, they can summon up strong winds for becalmed sailors, or call rains for parched crops. They are as changeable as the sky they dwell within, flitting about invisibly and only sensed as a tingling in the air, or heard as a soft and whispering voice. Some of the nastier pixies are said to lair in high and lonely places to descend on lost travelers, hunting them for fun.
Category:Spirits