Lamin

A lamin, also lamina (plural laminak), lamiña, lamignac, is a sprite of the mountains with many hob characteristics.
They appear as halflinglike males and females. The females have very modest dress with their hair up in a phallic cap. The male manifestations wear similar caps, while letting the hair loose, or have an affinity to carry waterskins full of white dough. They also often have capes as part of their forms. The hair of a lamin takes on the appearance of having gold dust in it.
Lamins live in the mountains and protect them from overzealous miners. Wherever they walk along the trails, they leave flowers in their tracks.A martagon lily analog Their flowers can even be found growing directly on rocks for a short time in which they glow faintly with a fey light.
If the cave of a lamin is found, it will be seen that there they conjure a bread that is as white as snow. It feeds the mountain goats and beasts of the peaks, as well as the fae who mirror the form of the lamins.
When a person helps a lamin with a physical task they desire to perform, they reward them with conjured coins that will regenerate in their strongbox as long as there is one left and as long as the coins are never spoken of by the helper. In towns, wizards trained to identify these coins are to remove them from circulation, but nothing prevents them from in turn using them themselves with the unsuspecting. The spent coins will not begin to regenerate though, as at least the last coin in the original strongbox, the urcoin, must be in that very strongbox for it to continue to multiply.
== Fae Lamin ==
Fae that take the form of lamins are most often male in body and prone to carry females off for fairy marriage, which in this case is usually kidnapping. Such females can be subject to fae conversion and may not be able to go back to their people and unaltered body.
== Notes ==
== Sources ==
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamina_(mythologie)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamia_(Basque_mythology)
Category:Spirits
Category:Mountain Spirits
Category:Earth
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