Fairy

Fairies, also known as Vanir are one of the dominant races of Erion. They reside in the southern forest realm of Ringford, ruled by Queen Mercedes. In Norse mythology the Vanir were one of the two groups of gods, the other being the Æsir. The Vanir were led by Njord, the Æsir by Odin. The Vanir and Æsir were at war in the early times.
==Background Story==
Long ago, the fairies were born from the Phozons of Ringford and for many centuries they lived in peace and harmony in small tribes they had made throughout the forest without disturbance from the outside world until the Crystallization Cauldron was created by the neighboring Kingdom of Valentine. The Cauldron absorbed Phozons from all across Erion, especially nearby Ringford. Without Phozons, the fairy race would not survive, but luckily for the Vanir the entire country of Valentine was subsequently destroyed by the Cauldron itself, thus leaving nothing but a wasteland with the Cauldron standing in the center. With Valentine's destruction, the fairies were able to take control of the destroyed region and the Cauldron in hopes of preventing another catastrophe. With the Cauldron in their possession, the tribes of fairies united and the neighboring tribes of the Unicorns swore allegiance to them, allowing Ringford to establish itself as a military power and a prosperous nation equal to both Titania and Ragnanival. Some time after, a war was fought between Ringford and the dwarfs. In the end, the fairies prevailed and the captured dwarfs were sworn to work for them, becoming Lilipats in the process.
==Racial Characteristics==
thumb|130px|left|A male Fairy Knight
Fairies are a humanoid race similar to elves with insect-like wings on their backs; females possess large butterfly-like wings that differ in color and can grow to become larger than their hosts, while males possess smaller grasshopper-like wings and seem incapable of flight.
Fairies spend the majority of their lives in Ringford without much contact from the outside world and some tend to become nervous in a foreign land. Because of this, other races consider it a rarity to encounter a fairy.
===Infants===
Though fairies are born from Phozons, it appears that they can also biologically reproduce. According to some of Queen Elfaria's dialogue, infant fairies are quite small and are easy prey to frogs. This may indicate that infant fairies are less than 8 inches in stature.
===Death===
Fairies keep their true name secret from others and never use them even when in the presence of their own kin. The reason being that when a fairy is close to death, they must say their true names in order to enter the heavens and prevent themselves from being sent to the Netherworld.
==Armageddon==
During this time, Darkova formed Ingway destroyed Ringford Kingdom and annihilated the entire fairy race while being under controlled by now revenant Beldor at this time, same situation what King Gallon and his denizens of the Netherworld forces to the Aesir people and the Ragnanival Kingdom until he was fought by Cornelius who was supposedly destined to remove his "suffering" their battle resulted in Cornelius getting tired from the fighting as he used up all of his energy to it and eventually losing his consciousness for a temporary period of time and mortally wounding Ingway. He would later die of his wounds, just shortly after he informed Velvet that destroying the Cauldron was "wrong", and reversing it is much better because it would save the sake of the world for all of themselves, as their mother stated in the note that was given to them by her as Ingway says, Velvet took this advice from her twin brother and left along with unconscious and tired Cornelius carrying his body until they finally both left the ruin remnants of the Ringford Kingdom.
A few moments then later until mercedes spots his dead body and cries over his death because he did not fulfill the promise she made to her as Ingway said before to Mercedes, then she encounters Inferno King Onyx who have settled on the ruins of the Ringford Kingdom, which occured later just after Cornelius and Ingway battled in the area as Velvet and Cornelius left, King Onyx told Mercedes that there was no such thing as the "prophecies", Mercedes replied to him that if it's really true and it was destined to be like their situation then he is destined not to survive into it, the two later fight resulting them getting both wounded mortally.
Mercedes later dies after confessing her true name and apologizing to her mother not being able to be like her being fit enough to be a leader of a nation and that their kingdom is in ruins, ending the fairy race along with her death, upon hearing her true name Onyx was shocked that she was actually the world tree destined to stop him but he still denies the prophecies because he did not see anyone alive, claiming that the prophecy was "false" because there was nobody around them other than themselves, Onyx later dies in his wound as well, bringing his race to an end forever as it did with the fairies because mercedes was the last of their kind but unknown to him, the ruin remains of the Kingdom of Valentine of the desert still remain to be intact where Gwendolyn, Oswald, Velvet and Cornelius are in to stay after all the destruction.
1038 years later, it is shown in the end credits that Mercedes reincarnated as a tree while Ingway lay down in the Netherworld looking at a flower on the tree's roots but there are some speculations that Mercedes and Ingway reincarnated as Alice's parents as her parents resembled them shown in the 2015 weekly magazine of Odin Sphere.
== Trivia ==
* In warcraft III series they will be referred as "high elven elves" race instead of being a fairy.
* According to the geological studies the fairies may have existed before due to the fossils found in western europe that are supposedly belonged to fairies, however, they we're too small in size to be comparable with humans and their size is seemed to be more comparable with insects that possess gigantism, if this is true, fairies would be the most believable and likely mythological creature to have actually existed but it is controversial subject and remains in question of it's authenticity and it is subjected to heavy debate among believers and geologists.
* The mythological fairy creature folkore is generally considered to be western european culture mythological beliefs by origin, however according to the historical records of medieval europe that dates back from atleast 9th-10th centuries shows that fairy folkore may have actually originated from the country of Iran rather than western european culture and this mythological fairy creature beliefs may had been brought to europe via islamic conquest invasions of europe in the early 8th century as the arab islamic culture have influenced the european civilization during it's conquest of europe and this influence have reached afar of the european continent parts making it far in places such as Sweden.
* the word "fairy" is a germanic given word of english origin derived from the french word "faerie" that is thought to have originated from the iranian persian word "peri" that literally means "deceiving angel" the peri we're angel mythological creatures in the iranian culture that may stems it's origins from the islam when this religion was brought in iran during the islamic caliphate empire conquest of persia (present day iran) in the 7th century.
* While fairies are supposedly intended and to be presented as cute "godly" beings and to be used as a slang to describe a woman who is known for her intense extreme beauty as a form of compliment and appreciation of her beauty, the fairy had dark origins according to the history, in the iranian culture, fairies are considered in their culture as "fallen angels" as they we're angels that are supposedly created in this species in order to serve the god but instead they we're rejected from the divinity and denied access to the heaven, these are the angels that are supposedly have violated god's laws and opposed it causing them to be rejected and to be thrown in hell where they would become evil demonic minions to send them in earth and use them to deceive the humanity with their supposedly "cute" and "beautiful" features by attracting womanizers.
* Fairies are also speculated and thought to be rumored as secret diabolical beings created by satan himself with an intention of deceiving humanity and it is usually targeted at womanizer men especially the ones who is addicted to meet every stranger beautiful looking girls they see, satan's diabolical minions are meant to attract them in their attention, if successful in luring, his diabolic minions will kill them in secret and they will be able to take their souls freely and drag them into hell forcibly. 
** This "Diabolical" Word that is being linked and described to the fairies may had been based in some of their physical features that are visible in their physical appearance such as having pointy ears and red colored iris in their eyes, which is hiding in plain sight.
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