Leprechauns

Other Names: Little People, Elfkin, Sprites
Leprechauns were once children who wandered into the Black Wood. The first leprechaun was a girl who wandered into the Black Wood and discovered a faerie tree. Starving, she began eating the dead faeries on the ground beneath the tree at the urging of the others still living in the tree. She befriended them and lived off of a diet of the deceased faeries for several days before the changes began. Her skin took on an iridescent sheen as her pores began to extrude the concentrated magics still within the faeries. After a week, the transformation was complete.
== Abilities ==
Leprechauns do not age and cannot die by natural causes. They protect the faeries, and are shy but formidable opponents. They affect luck in a radius around them so that if a leprechaun feels threatened, those nearby might trip over nothing, or stumble and miss, with no effort on the part of the leprechaun. They can also shapeshift into adorable cat-like creatures, something they do in order to lure more children into the fold.
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==Anatomy and Health==
===Head===
Some have pointy ears, but not all do. Their eyes are large and innocent.
===Body===
They have the bodies of prepubescent children, which glimmer from the green/gold sweat they perspire. 
===Diet===
They eat deceased fairies.
===Behaviour===
Leprechauns are impulsive and carefree. They are silly and whimsical and speak like children. Sometimes getting words wrong, and not always being clear in their meaning. 
==Habitat==
Leprechauns live in the black wood, their houses built in the trees which house the faeries.
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==Reproduction and Life Cycle==
Leprechauns do not reproduce and are asexual. They can only be created by children eating faeries. Adults eating Faeries will not fully transform, though they can gain some temporary magical attributes as discussed below.
== Magical Attributes and Uses ==
Leprechaun gold, blood, and hair can be used in potions and the manufacturing of magical items.