Fairies

Fairies mostly reside in forest areas, flourishing most in nature. They are most often very friendly creatures and prefer to stay in civilizations. However, there are those who stray off from groups. There are two types of fairies common to Avalia: forest and winter fairies. 
Forest fairies work hard to keep the flora and fauna in a flourishing state in the woodlands of Avalia. They are nature's caretakers. These fairies can manipulate nature at will but it is something that must be learned from their younger years, being able to twist and control a vine at will if need be. They also are excellent at communicating with animals. They have the ability to heal wounds at will but cannot reverse death. 
The endangered breed of winter fairies can manipulate ice and snow around them whilst retaining their healing ability. Winter fairies, much more endangered than their forest counterparts, do the same but in colder regions, also helping to bring winter weather and to maintain their climate. There are rumors of a new species of fairies existing called dark fairies, but most have never seen one and pass this off as a myth.
Their main locations are River Kingdom, and the unnamed winter fairy settlement.
Lifespan is usually around 200 years. 
== Abilities ==
=== Chlorokinesis ===
Forest fairies and dark fairies even to some degree have this ability. The limitation is the fairy's skill level when it comes to forest fairies.
Capabilities:
* Fairies may create at will and manipulate plants and vegetation.
* Enemies can be trapped within vines and vegetation by the user.
* Users can bloom flowers, trees, and most vegetation at will
* Fairies can manipulate tree branches at will
*Growth can be accelerated.
Dark Fairy Limitations:
* Chlorokinesis can be used to manipulate or kill plant-life, but they cannot create it at will. It is chlorokinesis in a much darker and different form. It is used to manipulate vines and branches to hurt others often. 
=== Healing ===
Forest and Winter Fairies can perform this. 
Capabilities:
* Fairies can regenerate the cells over wounds, burns and reconnect broken bones for themselves or another. Some illnesses can be healed. 
Limitations:
* Complex, terminal illness requires very skilled healers. This goes for very complex injuries and those with many critical injuries. Death cannot be reversed
* Healing needs time to cool down as it is draining for the fairy. Overhealing can kill a fairy. The more skilled the healer, the less of a cool-down and the more healing a fairy can do. 
* Dark fairies can only do the opposite: unheal.
=== Necrosis ===
Only dark fairies can perform this.
Capabilities:
* Dark fairies can unheal any recent wounds, even ones that were recently healed. The process for the victim is gradual and painful as the skin crawls outward and the wounds grow.
* It can rot the flesh of the victim and destroy it. Only powerful healers can fix this damage. 
Limitations:
* It has an extremely short range. Once someone is out of this range, they can not be harmed.
* It is a slow and gradual attack. 
=== Zoolingualism ===
All fairies can perform this. 
Capabilities:
* Fairies can understand the speech of animals with practice and focus. They are able to telepathically communicate with them, magically translating the animal's speech into English and vice versa for the animal.
*Dark fairies can command creatures to do their bidding if skilled enough.
Limitations:
* They cannot communicate out loud. The animals do not actually know English. 
* Just because a fairy can speak to an animal and has a natural tendency for charisma with animals, does not mean every animal will wish to speak to them or like them
* Smaller and less intelligent creatures such as insects require a lot of skill to speak to. 
*The more intelligent the animal, the higher the skill it will take from a Dark Fairy to command them. 
=== Cryokinesis ===
This ability is exclusive to Winter Fairies.
Capabilities:
* Winter fairies can create and manipulate ice at will. This works best in cold environments. 
* They can form snow, hail and other types of ice. 
*Fairies can use ice as an offensive tool, sending shards or any form of ice at an enemy 
* Ice can be used to create a barrier or a structure.
Limitations:
* Users can only manipulate water frozen in its solid-state
* Creating blizzards and large-scale weather occurrences is a draining and difficult task.
=== Erebokinesis ===
This ability is exclusive to Dark Fairies. When dark magic strikes your skin, you will feel as if life was sucked out of you and you will feel cold inside. It will feel as if you lost a part of you and you will feel sense of dread. In a room of dark magic, it may have a heavy presence but not feel like much. However, concentrated amounts sent at you will have the dreadful impact. 
Capabilities:
* Dark fairies can create and manipulate dark energy at will
* They can shroud a room in darkness. 
* Dark fairies can manipulate darkness into orbs or other offensive forms
Limitations:
* In the presence of a lot of light, this power is rendered useless
== Weaknesses ==
* All fairies are weakened by contact with iron.
* Dark fairies are weakened by contact with iron and silver.
* Healing can drain fairies to even death.
* Overusing any ability can drain a fairy as well, but healing has a much more detrimental effect. 
* Fairies can be killed by most things humans can. 
* Forest fairies cannot use ice magic or dark magic, and winter fairies cannot use plant magic, and neither can use dark magic while the dark fairies cannot use ice magic. 
* Dark fairies cannot use healing like the other two because of the negative energy that surrounds them.
== Appearance ==
Fairies look quite similar to humans. Their irises tend to differ slightly. Unusual hair and eye colors are very common. Their wings tend to be wispy and thin but also vary in look, color, and size. Their ears sometimes can look similar to elf ears, pointed but most of the time much smaller than elf ears. Some male fairies tend to grow horns from their head. They tend to be absolutely beautiful in appearance, with sometimes surreal features. 
They dress in light-weight clothes, often incorporating leaves and flowers into their fashion as they absolutely adore nature. The women never wear pants or shorts as it is impolite in their culture. Women are always in some sort of skirt or dress. They never wear closed-toe shoes and always go toward sandal-type footwear, or even favor being barefoot. Ice fairies are able-bodied for their cold but still tend to dress in warmer gear. The women wear long dresses with warm socks underneath and boots in those groups. 
The older fairy generations tend to prefer more conservative clothes, while younger ones believe that their bodies are beautiful and feel no shame in showing skin. Additionally, wearing a lighter amount of clothes enables fairies to fly faster. 
== Culture ==
Fairies would be considered rather old fashion by modern-day standards. They have the old-age belief that males are to be the fighters and women the caretakers. Women raise the young, grow and tend to crops, and practice their healing abilities on their own kind and often other creatures. Men tend to practice more offensive magic that utilizes the nature around them and train to protect their kind. It was very often that fairies were called into battle before the reign of the dark elves as they were excellent warriors despite their peaceful demeanor and culture. Women are expected to care for and listen to their husbands with the exception of situations of endangerment. Winter fairies are not as strict with these ideals, having grown up in smaller communities where things are more relaxed.
Fairies and males are taught in different classrooms after age ten, due to the different routes of education as well as this is the age where some fairies start going through puberty. Before age ten, all fairies learn some chlorokinesis, zoolingualism, and healing. All female fairies learn how to grow food and how to upkeep the flora of the forest in schooling. However, as they get older, they tend to specialize in one area over another. Some go on to better their skill in tending the forest while others go to the healing center to shadow healers and take classes there. 
Males briefly learn these things as well but are raised as defenders and soldiers. They are taught how to use chlorokinesis defensively and offensively. They start practicing fighting from age thirteen. There is even an organized sport of battling between male fairies that happens at schools, where many in the forest fairy kingdoms come to attend. At age eighteen, fairies make their way to training camps to officially train to become warriors, often devoting lots of time and energy to this. 
Music is a large part of all fairy communities. They tend to enjoy string instruments and hand-made flutes. Fairies enjoy going out to enjoy live music whilst going out drinking. 
When it comes to enriching their minds, they're set in their ways about what they study, not often interested in architecture and sciences not pertaining to medicine, biology or botany. Books found in the library there tend to be about those subjects. Fairies are also very creative, so there are a lot of many interesting fictional stories as well as art pieces that can be bought and sold in the streets. 
Brothels and prostitution are looked down upon by fairies as a whole. They believe that the body is something special and the love that is shared between two during intercourse cannot be bought. It is illegal in the forest fairy kingdoms. Young adult fairies tend to be looser when it comes to sex, enjoying attending secret orgies and such, believing that it is only a natural thing. 
== Religion ==
Fairies believe that every living thing has a spirit and needs to be treated with respect. There are myths and legends about spirits of the forest who are to blame for their very existence. The Great Spirits are essentially the Gods of the forest they worship who are thought to have tremendous power. For example, a large male deer with bird-like wings is often painted as a Great Spirit. He watches over fairies, making sure they tend to the nature around them as they were born to. 
=== Rules of the Great Spirits: ===
1. Everyone is born innocent and pure until proven otherwise. All that is innocent must be protected. If you kill an innocent, you no longer have that right to protection.
* Many fairies are vegetarians, believing that killing animals is wrong. Many disagree and continue to eat meat, believing that it is the natural way of things as long as animals are killed humanely.
2. The forests and flowers are a gift. They must be treated with respect, maintained in good health and cherished.
3. Kindness to all is celebrated
4. No one should force love onto another. It is given, not taken. (edited)
5. Do not take that which is not yours.
6. Do not trespass on to the homes of others.
7. No hunting for animals in sacred areas.
It is expected that you will reincarnate as something foul if you break these rules on top of probably being jailed if dark elves aren't to get in the way. There are also legends that Wendigos come to collect those who do not respect the forest around them but this could just be tales of parents trying to persuade children to have respect for nature. 
They also consider there to be a Goddess of each season, who bestows them with the weather. 
* The Goddess of Summer is named Chryseis; she is pictured as a woman with long yellow hair. 
* The Goddess of Winter is named Alysia; who is painted as a woman with white, shoulder-length hair. Winter fairies have great praise for her. 
* The Goddess of Spring is named Xylia, painted as a woman with green hair. She is celebrated in the River and Flower Kingdoms as she is believed to bring life and help give fairies their power to help bloom flowers and nurture their forest.
* The Goddess of Autumn is named Orla, a woman painted with red hair.
== Winter Fairies ==
The first winter fairy was born around 900 years ago. Even to this day, members of each kingdom will claim credit for bringing their wonderful ice affinity brethren to the world that is Avalia. 
When first discovered, winter fairies were viewed as blessings, not blights. Remember, these are fairies, not elves, so they were much kinder to the difference. The reception of this new breed of fairy did not come without its problems. Unlike most fairies that rarely ventured far from wherever they considered their domain, many winter fairies all ventured away from their homes and always to the north. 
Over time, fewer and fewer fairies were born from the River Kingdom. It was then that only winter fairies were able to produce their offspring. With the migration north also came danger. Many winter fairies found themselves in the wilderness ruled by deadly beasts or subjected to poaching and slavery due to their rarity. It was only natural for a group of winter fairies to start developing their own settlement deep within the northern forests.
Their numbers were small enough that they could keep their settlement hidden, and they were organized enough to prosper and protect themselves. Few will spot a winter fairy in their lifetime, even in the north, but even fewer know the location of their settlement. Like their forest brethren, winter fairies rarely leave their domain and this is what keeps them both hidden and protected. Winter fairies are mostly desired for their ice magic, one of the rarest elements to be harnessed in Avalia.
== Dark Fairies ==
Dark Fairies can all find their origins in the Dusk Project, headed by Zalthraxis Morthelvaan and accepted by King Zanithel months after Avalia was conquered by Malthemoor. For Fairies, the Dusk Project’s goal is to create a subspecies of Fairies with the ability to utilize dark magic. This is induced by transforming existing Forest and Winter Fairies through harsh methods that can be fatal to some. The process involves hours of torture as a means of pushing the fairies to the limit where they feel their most negative and darkest emotions. After the torture, the subjects are submerged in a solution comprised of dark mana crystal dust and dark magic that is added on an hourly basis. This process not only takes an indefinite amount of time but the frequency of torture can vary from subject to subject. Every time a subject is removed from the tank where they are submerged, they are tested to determine if they have been transformed. In the case when they are not determined transformed, the fairy is cycled through torture and submergence in the solution. 
Once the process is complete, Dark Fairies become a broken version of who they once were. This varies from fairy to fairy as their broken mind attempts to piece itself back together with whatever is left. Some may become violently crazed while others become coldly melancholy.