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> **SPIRITS**

This type of race is quite difficult to classify for the simple reason that the term spirit can be used for various races, for example certain authors consider the elves and fairies as spirits, for this reason I'll try to make a generalized spirit race as much as possible

APPEARANCE:

We can divide spirits into two main category

* Element, this category involve spirits that are made of energy and don't have a physical form and so they create one using their attribute, for example a water spirit that use water for create a "vessel" for interact with the environment, in various works they make a humanoid shaped body but this is not a fixed rule and so they can make a body that appear like an animal, a dragon or another thing.
* Humanoid, they have a natural humanoid body that is made of flesh and bones but their "life and death principles" are different from the mortal one in fact they can change it into a not so human form, for example a fire spirit can appear like a red haired boy and then change into something like a minotaur that have blazing horns and can breath fire. If I want to put into another way then humanoid spirits can have basically four different forms
	+ human, they appear as humans
	+ empowered, they appear as humans but let out some of their not human traits
	+ hybrid, a real and proper combination of their human form and not human form
	+ full out, they full let out their not human form
* Please keep in mind that different form don't imply "different quantity of power release", in this cases there is only a change of shape... obviously the result of abilities that involve the body, like a charge attack, will have a different result depending on the form

If we include fairies with the spirits than their appearance can change from the classic one, from very small humanoid with wings to child like beings with wings, to modern like where they appear like humans but that have their classic wings.

BIOLOGY:

Spirit biology is quite difficult because they are mainly used as supreme entity made of energy and not as some kind of race that have a physical body.

LIFESPAN:

Spirits can be immortal (don't die of old age but in some cases can be killed) or live for thousand of years.

Same story for fairies, but normally they are not immortal but only live for long time... in some cases they are bounded to something and this make them able to die and reborn in a way similar to what humans do when they sleep and wake up, for example a snow fairy "die" at summer and "reborn" at winter like nothing happened or a little more later in time.

REPRODUCTION:

If we talk about humanoid spirits and fairies than the human way of reproduction can work but for energy based spirits I think they reproduce "cutting away" a part of them that become independent

VARIATIONS:

Spirits and fairies are divided based on various things so the list is quite long, the main one that is easy to list are:

* Attribute, basically they are elemental entities
* Season, in various cultures both spirits and fairies
* Field, said like this can sound stupid but, like there are gods and goddesses of specific fields like of commerce or justice, there are spirits too of things like this... fairies are less inclined to appear in this category

POWERS & ABILITIES:

As races they are one of the most powerfull beings in the magic field and have naturally great powers and mana pools but normally they can be result quite specialized in something resulting in them not that much balanced and missing certain abilities.

A couple of example of what I'm saying:

* Fire fairy/spirit, specialized into anything about fire and heat but unable or very poorly skilled in water/ice and cooling/freezeing abilities
* Wood fairy/spirit, know every type of plant but not animals... it's knowledge is quite limited to eventual insect and animals that eat and/or are dangerous for the plants
* Crafting fairy/spirit, able to craft and appraise any material but unable to clearly determine the commercial value of something... basically can come out with a very low price or with one too much high anything but unable to determine the economical value of something

SOCIETY:

Depending on the author and the type of spirit, we can have various type of society but usually they have their own dimension where they live and have a queen or a king, mainly a queeln, that govern them and from what I saw they don't have other nobles aside them.

About the fairies I want to point that in various stories the name Titania come out as the queen of the fairies, the reason of this come from the fact that "Titania" is the name of a fairy queen created by William Shakespeare in his famous work "A Midsummer Night's Dream"