Leprechaun

Leprechaun are fairies from irish folklore. More specifically they are thought to be the offsprings of a fairy and an evil spirit which, given the mythology of Ireland, is interpreted by Crypto X Ing as them beeing the offsprings of a tuatha de dannan and of a fomorian, an interpretation that is reinforced by stories of leprechauns comming out of the sea to drown peoples.

Incidentaly this makes Lugh, the king of gods in irish myth, a leprechaun.

## Appearance

A leprechaun looks like a red haired man (there are no femele leprechauns), though only 2 feet (0.6 meter) in heigh. Leprechauns wear green or red clothes, with tophats and cloaks beeing frequent articles.

## Behaviour

Leprechauns are considered to be the shoemakers and bankers of faery, spending their days cobbling shoes and searching for treasures to claim as their own. They might even make shoes for humans in exchange of an offering of milk and food but getting them to part with their gold is far more difficult.

When not making shoes or stockpilling money the leprechauns are festive people, drinking alcohol, sockin pipes, playing music, and dancing until their shoes wears of (this is believed to be the reason for their shoemaking tallents, as they must replace them each time) they are often the life of fae's parties.

Leprechauns are not quite so cordial with humans as they are with their fellow faery folks, thinking nothing of stealing money or alcohol from them or cheating them out of payment (a common tactic is to temporarily turn clovers into gold coins to pay for something only for the gold to turn back to clover as soon as the leprechaun is away) they are even known to play pranks on humans (sometimes cruelly so) for no other reason than for their ammusement. They are also among the fairies known to abduct people.

That being said they can be made more amicable by gift of food, milk or even better alcohol. In exchange for great favors given to them leprechauns can even give some of their gold or grant humans wishes. Less scrupulous peoples can also trap leprechauns, forcing them to give gold or wishes in exchange for their freedom, though in this case they must be careful as the leprechaun will do anything to interpret their wish in a negative way or cheat them out of the gold.

## Characteristics

* Strength : leprechauns's small size belies their true streght which is much greater than a human's though the exact limits are unknown (Lugh could sling a rock in the eyes of the giant Balor but he was no ordinary leprechaun so it's dificult to determine an average.)
* Resilience : leprechauns are no more durable than humans and, in fact, their small statures means they are more fragile as injuries that would be survivables for a human (like a medium size stone hitting them for instance) can prove fatal to them.
* Speed : leprechauns are blindingly fast, ale to move faster than the eyes can track. They're also extremely agile and nimble.
* Intelligence : leprechauns are highly intelligent and ressourceful, routinely outsmarting humans who tought they had the advantage, a considerable amout of a leprechaun's very long life is spent thinking of ways to trick and decive others.
* Amphibious : owing to their fomorian ancestry, leprechauns can breathe underwater and will sometimes attempt to exploit this to drown peoples.

## Powers

* Transmutation : leprechauns can transform anything into virtually anything else through magic spells, this allows for the creation of life, by turning inanimate objects into living beings.
* Ilusions : leprechauns can use glamour to make things appear to be what they're not.
* Luck : leprechauns are supernaturally lucky. while luck is a difficult data to quantify it allows them to tilt the odds in their favor in situations where they are on otherwise equal footing with their opponents.
* Wish : it's unknown if the leprechaun's wishes are simply favour that he has to grant, meaning their are limits to what can be accomplished or if it is a reality warping power requiring a human wish to be performed.

## Gear

* Shillelagh : leprechauns often carry a shillelagh, a walking stick that can be used as a club.
* Lucky coin : all leprechauns have a lucky gold coin that is enchanted to always return to their pocket.
* False silver coin : a silver coin, in reallity just some dead clover leaves under an ilusion, that will return to its true form a few hours after its spent. The leprechaun can easily make more.

## Weaknesses

* Capture : if a leprechaun is grabed by the beard he become incapable of defending himself until freed, moreover if his captor frees him under conditions the leprechaun cannot take vengence or retrieve what they gave away afterward (though they may use trickery to avoid giving anything or make wishes backfire).
* Because leprechauns relies on spells to work magic they can't use their powers if silenced somehow.
* Iron : like all fairies leprechauns are vulnerable to iron weapons which inflict greater damage to them than they otherwise whould.
* Similarly : church bells and invocating the name of God repels them.