Fairy

Fairies are diminutive spirits which incorporate the nature around them in their appearance. They are playful and mischievous, most often innocent and naive rather than sinister.
Most fairies are merely sentient, with very few being sapient. They are nature spirits, flitting around the woods, tossing and plucking their affinities, dancing in circles and drawn to interact with the power in mortals and greater spirits. Their chief end is expressing the vibrance of the earth teaming with life, hence forests are their domain, the oldest, most untouched forests thickest with them.
== Nature ==
Luring mortals into their play is a prime occupation of fairies, not unlike the dog that wants its master to throw the stick. This innate desire is innocent in origin and at the outset, but often the games and reveling of fairies goes beyond the limits of mortals and results in their harm or death. A fairy may want to follow what is a clear path to itself, but which will lead a person to walk over a cliff's edge. Fairies may dance for eight hours straight without pause, but a mortal will die of exhaustion. The alluring and intoxicating power of fairies may draw a person in beyond their judgment. Their spells can also leave a lasting effect on someone, burning the mind and obscuring reality.
Following a fairy can lead to unintended consequences, such as stepping into their ring, with its requisite implications, or infringing upon other spirits' domains. It can seem like the individual is being tempted, but the fairies simply want to play and they happen to have limited awareness. Enthrallment lasts for an unpredictable duration and can easily last years. The fairies with enough power will hold the individual in stasis while they are enthralled, thus the person will not die, but they will depart the ring in an unfamiliar future.
One method to free a victim from enthrallment is to toss a stalk of mesurana or timma to draw the fairies to it by affinity and thus interrupt their dance.
Other forms of fairy mischief include making a person invisible or otherwise undetectable any of the other senses, pestering livestock and causing them to exhibit bizarre behavior, hexing someone to manifest illusory or real alterations such as leeches on the tongue, a parti pattern appearing on the skin, an object becoming slippery, heavy, or as light as a feather. There is a fine line between the play of fairies and the mischief of dark pestering spirits. Fairy play is always something that elicits their laughter and could also be laughed off with a light spirit / lighthearted disposition. Doing so will placate the fairy and any annoyance or inconvenience will be reversed unless the recipient has other pneumetary entanglements which motivate or obligate said fairy. Malevolent fairy-like spirits have little to no connection to nature and act as dark manifestations of chaos rather than mere manifestations of the spontaneity and diversity of life. Harm caused by fairies is accidental or justified by some pneumetary law, however much it may differ from the laws of any people. Anything that a child might dismiss with "I was only playing" would be in the nature of fairies and their awareness of mortal concerns even less. A sentient fairy's grasp of right and wrong is disturbingly more distant and paltry than that of a sapient child. Many mischief spirits, or even shrewd tutelars, are called "fairies" due to their similarities (being bothered by them, being tricked by them), but those spirits are not by nature bound by the limits of fairies described herein. The common utterance of fairy differs from the cunning knowledge of them.
== List of Fairies ==
=== Gretchland ===
* Fairy
* Sprite
* Elfin
* Processionary (lots of little spirits, mostly robbed and monkish)
* *Plucker (bordering on mischief spirit)
* Hinkypunk
* Pillywiggin
* Ouph
=== Corval ===
* Pixie/Piskie
* Korrigan
* Tuath
=== Chambrey ===
* Ouph
* Lutin
* Pilou
* Hyter
* Atomy/Atomie
* Vendoise
* Pech (vegetable-form spirit)
* Tourmentine (pernicious but protective pech)
* Fadet (small, simple, sulfur-smelling)
* Farfadet (mischevious, misleading; come out at midnight; direct/possess small animals and run them at people)
* Follet
=== Unsorted ===
* Lamin
* Loote
* Montloote
* Kabouter
* Erdwible/Erdluitle
* Erl/Fey/Feya
* Peri
Category:Spirits
Category:Nature Spirits
Category:Fairies