Fairy knights

Fairy knights are horse riding fay and constitute the minor nobility of fay courts. Fairy knights are often nobles that have become fay. Fairy knights are either sworn to a monarch, or are errant.
== Children ==
By using their noble titles, fairy knights sometimes father children with non fay noblewomen. These children suffer from Tydorels disease (aka insomnia), as well as minor vexotrophagy, but otherwise enjoy normal lives.
Children of fairy knights often seek out their fathers, often condemning themselves to become a fay or a slave to a fay realm in the process. Should the father die, and the child not have consumed victuals from fey realms, it will be cured of its vexotrophagy and insomnia.
A common gift from knights to their sons is a tipless sword, which they use to seek out their fathers, who will reveal the sword tip to prove fatherhood.
== Biology ==
Unlike other fay, fairy knights do not grow old when outside of fay realms if they remain on their horses, or when inside a habitation they have been invited inside. Fairy knights also cannot enter areas unless their name is spoken by those inside.
===Knighting===
Fairy knights are knighted by their rulers through challenges, a common challenge for one to prove is a fairy knight is to ride a horse across the bottom of an enchanted lake and emerge on the other side.
Once they are knighted, fairy knights are at the service of the Fay, either to a specific monarch or as errant knights.
It is a common trick for people to be offered a knightship from the fay, only to be sold as a tithe to demons.
==== Knight swap ritual ====
One way for a fairy knight to leave its service to a ruler is to partake in a fairy circle, until an outsider joins the circle to take its place. The freed knight is then considered errant.
== Missions ==
Fairy Knights serve several important functions for the fay people, they claim lands for their rulers which they guard, sometimes for years, until relieved of their duty. Fairy knights also kidnap people that they bring back to the fay realm. Fairy knights can be bargained with, to a degree, they will renounce their mission if the target executes an impossible task. The target can then give impossible tasks that must be countered with more impossible tasks, the winner becomes the owner of the loser. It is considered a great testament of oratory skill to own a fairy knight.
===Claiming territory===
Fairy knights can claim territory for their ruler, which once done becomes a fay realm, where they may set foot. However they must defend the new realm from invaders until the monarch relieves the knight of its service. When fairy knights claim territory, it doesn't become fay immediately, but they may set foot on the claim without crumbling to dust.
===Kidnapping===
Fairy knights are also in charge of bringing people to the fay realms, as guests, slaves or for their particular skills.
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