Fey

Fey are a wide variety of creatures that possess a strange sort of magic about them that is not entirely related to the known elements. This magic also allows them to adapt more easily to the elements, enabling them to alter the nature of their spirits.

## Urbane Fey

Urbane Fey consists of the species of Fey creatures that are the most civilized.

### Faun

Fauns are perhaps the most ordinary-seeming creature belonging to the Fey, so much so that they are often mistaken for their far rowdier cousins, Satyrs. Indeed, Fauns are far more innocent than Satyrs and tend to abstain from the rampant alcoholism and wild fornication of their kin, though the temptation certainly does still exist within their kind. Fauns take the form of male semi-human, bipedal deer creatures that possess a natural adorability about them that can charm even the most wicked of hearts.

### Moon Rabbit

Moon Rabbits a species of Fey creatures native to Aum's moon. They possess extremely powerful legs that give them the ability to leap all the way to Aum from their lunar home and back with ease, with some known to have casually bounded between different star systems to visit far off worlds.

### Wee Ones

Wee Ones are a group of wee Fey humanoids.

#### Titin

Titins are the largest and fiercest of the Wee Ones; brave warriors standing proud at four inches tall.

#### Dimin

Dimins are middling sized Wee Ones, standing about an inch or two tall and devoting themselves to practical matters in life.

#### Lilin

Lilins are the weeest of the Wee Ones and are a race of starry-eyed dreamers, bold entrepreneurs, and brave adventurers.

## Whimsical Fey

Whimsical Fey consists of the species of Fey creatures that are the most innocent and childlike in their nature.

### Nymph

Nymphs are beautiful female Fey who are attuned to certain landmarks of elemental or historic significance, especially blessed springs, ancient trees, and rare geological features. They are bound to their landmark from their time of inception and never able to leave. Nymphs by necessity are solitary creatures, but they do sheepishly welcome the company of visitors who respect the wilds and hold no intent to harm their home. When threatened, Nymphs may fuse into their landmark to hide away, and if the threat persists, they can unleash torrents of elemental energies to defend themselves. Nymphs may only become corrupted if their landmark has been greatly defiled by the actions of outside forces.

### Fairy

Fairies are wee, winged, female Fey that possess strong affinities to the elements and vast stores of magical energy.

#### Feyry

Feyrys are the most common breed of Fairy and while they are generally lacking in magical power compared to the other breeds, they do have access to the mana of every element.

#### Pixy

Pixies are an even smaller breed of Fairy that have a strong inclination towards random acts of mischief. Their pranks tend to be mostly harmless and some common examples include tying the hair of sleeping Ib into knots and hiding personal belonging such as keys in places that they certainly do not belong such as the icebox.

#### Sprite

Sprites are a breed of flightless fairies.

#### Wisp

Wisps are a breed of Fairy with an affinity for Light.

#### Sylph

Sylphs are a breed of Fairy with an affinity for Air.

#### Undine

Undines are a breed of Fairy with an affinity for Water.

#### Ifrit

Ifriti are a breed of Fairy with an affinity for Fire.

#### Pygmy

Pygmies are a breed of Fairy with an affinity for Earth.

#### Yinying

Yinying are a breed of Fairy with an affinity for Dark.

### La La Bird

La La Birds, also known as Lullabirds, are a flightless bird capable of singing enchanting melodies that can confuse predators and coax them to sleep. La La Birds are arboreal creatures and excellent climbers, but they harbor a deathly fear of heights. Indeed, the number one cause of death among their kind is from falling, but not from the trauma of the impact, but from the panic that causes them to suffocate from hyperventilation or suffer a heart attack. Many too writhe and wriggle so fiercely on the ground that they damage their spines from the convulsions, rendering themselves immobilized. La La Birds are capable of ordinary speech, but they prefer to express themselves through songs that seamlessly mix words and nonsense together. Rumors say that La La Birds were once a mundane breed of birds that were too afraid of falling that they never once tried to fly, prompting them to make up for their deficiency by learning to sing more beautifully than any other bird. From a biological analysis, La La Birds should be capable of flight, and indeed specimens under the influence of magical domination have proven this to be the case, but their innate fear and mental inhibitions render them naturally landlocked.

## Frivolous Fey

Frivolous Fey consists of the species of Fey creatures that just seem to exist for no particular rhyme or reason.

### Mite

Mites are among the most simple creatures in existence and undeniably the most simple fey, being little more than an orbish bloobamabob with a mouth and a stomach. They carelessly float about and feed on dust, pollen, and dead skin, though ones turned sinister by Fey Corruption are known to hide away in the pockets of Ib and nip at their rummaging hands to consume their blood.

### Phanteme

Phantemes are a harmless type of Fey creature that inhabit the eyes of Ib, lackadaisically floating around in the vitreous humor and occasionally crossing into the field of vision. Their bodies are mostly translucent so only a severe infestation of corrupted and malign Phantemes possesses any real threat to the senses of their host.

### Kodama

Kodama (木霊) are a type of tree spirit with hollow bodies that play echoing tunes in the wind. They are also known to create phantom lights.

### Guzo

Guzo are a type of stone statue infused with Fey energy and given life. Despite being fully animate, they very rarely ever move unless compelled to do so; however, ones who have become particularly accustomed to their placement in a certain location may try to return there if somebody attempts to move them.

### Chicktaur

Chicktaurs are a type of Fey that bears the resemblance to a bird's egg in the process of hatching, albeit with only the chick's legs having broken free from its shell. Despite this, they are still mostly capable of interacting with their environment as if they had the senses of an ordinary newborn bird. If a Chicktaur's shell is ever pierced, it will leak yolk, and reveal that its insides are just that of an ordinary egg with no chick inside.

### Teddy

Teddies are beloved stuffed Teddy Bears who have been infused with artificial life through a child's love and a bit of Fey magic. Unfortunately, they are particularly vulnerable to corruption once separated from their child, and they are known for committing grizzly acts of violence against both children and adults alike.

### Shiki

Shiki are a kind of animate paper Fey capable of flight. They arise naturally in the world but are also rather simple to artificially produce as a sort of simple Golem. Shiki can be given basic instructions by writing upon them with black ink.

### Leprechaun

Leprechauns are solitary Fey sometimes encountered wandering alone on the many paths and roads that run across the world. They are known for having great stores of riches and will give travelers puzzling hints of where great treasures can be found, but one should beware that following the instructions of a corrupted Leprechaun may well lead them to their doom.

## Somber Fey

Somber Fey are of a particularly rare kind of Fey creatures that possess a profound sense of despair that emanates from their very being.

### Lost Children

Lost Children are a type of forlorn Fey often mistaken for ghosts, though if they were ever alive, it was not in this world. They take on the ambiguous and ethereal form of glowing humanoid children and are known for inquisitively following and observing Ib. They may at times reach out with their hands, but Ib should avoid making physical contact with them under any circumstances.

### Witness

Witnesses are furtive Fey that create spatial and temporal anomalies to memorialize tragic events, often unnatural disasters or particularly gruesome crimes for which there were no survivors. While it is possible for Ib to wander into these anomalies by pure chance, Witnesses will often intentionally draw in Ib on important anniversary dates so that they too may bear witness to the archived events. While the process of drawing Ib into these anomalies is inherently dangerous due to the nature of the events they hold, Slayers still tend to spare Witnesses due to their powers to memorialize significant historic events and contain ghosts who may otherwise wreak havoc due to either their remains being lost or their deaths being so tragic that other methods of burial are insufficient to put them to rest.

## Perfidious Fey

Perfidious Fey consists of the species of Fey creatures that are devious and detrimental to those around them.

### Fairy Dragon

Fairy Dragons are beautiful fey serpents adorned with majestic butterfly wings and glossy, prismatic scales that cover their cold, calculating nature.

### Siren

Sirens are a breed of female, hideous semi-humanoid amphibians that utilize mystical glamours to make themselves appear of beautiful, young Ib. They reside in perilous coral reefs and treacherous stony shores and use their false beauty and honeyed songs to lure unsuspecting male Ib sailors towards their doom. Sirens diligently scour the wreckages they create and mate with then consume the most desirable man they can find, regardless of whether or not they had survived.

### Gorgon

Gorgons are hideous semi-humanoid reptilians related to Sirens but more at home in mountainous peaks rather than the sea. Their hair is composed of a colony of serpents that possess minor intelligence of their own. Like their sea songstress cousins, Gorgons too seek to attract male Ib to fulfill their reproductive and diety needs, but they are more likely to attract their prey with vinegar than honey, causing disasters and forcing local heroes to take up arms against them. Gorgons are capable of petrifying their prey and completely or partially thawing them as needed for the purposes of food preservation or forced marriage.

### Skinwalker

Skinwalkers are among the most savage and feared Fey in Aum. They are voracious and deceptive predators who wear the skin of those they hunt and devour, gaining their memories. After consuming their prey, they will disguise themselves as the unfortunate soul and mingle into their social group, searching for ways to isolate and consume their friends and families. While Skinwalkers do have access to all the knowledge their prey had, the imitations they make of their skin host is typically far from perfect as they are not able to immediately habituate to all their old mannerisms and habits.

### Spriggan

Spriggans are small and cruel Fey that snatch away the newborn children of Ib and replace them with baby Changelings. Corrupt Spriggan will devour these snatched children outright, but ordinary ones will just whisk them off and leave them orphaned in someplace far away. It is unknown why Spriggans aid Changelings in their reproductive cycle, but for whatever reason, it appears to be their primary purpose in life. Spriggans spend all the rest of their time living in quiet isolation from the rest of the world, but whenever a Changeling has given birth and inevitably abandoned its young, Spriggans will be there to find it a new home among Ib it will then come to exploit as its kind so often do.

### Erlking

Erlkings are spiritual fey creatures that reside within the hearts of Alder trees. They can only be perceived by Ib children, whom they show a great attraction for. Erlkings often kidnap the consciousnesses of children they particularly desire, spiriting them away to play within their dreamlike, arboreal realms and leaving their soulless bodies behind.

### Erling

Erlings are the spiritual daughters of Erlkings that serve and protect their fathers and imprisoned children. While they feign total loyalty and obedience, they always hunger for the souls of children, which can give them the power to develop into Erlkings themselves. If an Erling does manage to consume the soul of a child against their father's wishes, the next step that typically follows is for them to use the burst of strength they receive to usurp their father's Alder throne.

### Candy Men

Candy Men are a type of parasitic fey with flesh of taffy, chocolate, or hardened sugar and blood of syrup, caramel, or cream. They deceive young Ib into devouring them in order to aid in their reproduction. Candy Men afflicted by fey Corruption take their parasitism to lethal levels as their young, instead of being naturally passed through the Ib's digestive system, will burst forth from their bellies, rupturing their intestines and causing severe shock and trauma. There are also tales of children whose bellies were completely filled with the parasites having their own flesh completely converted into candy, and then encouraging their friends to consume them, ending their own lives to spread the infestation.

## Pernicious Fey

Pernicious Fey consists of the species of Fey creatures that are dreadful and actively hostile towards most other creatures.

### Boogiemen

Boogiemen are perhaps the vilest and prevalentest of Fey creatures on people's minds, known to stalk through nearly every region of Aum during the night. Their individual appearances vary greatly, but they are all invariably twisted and distorted things of horror. They prey primarily upon children who have wandered off alone at night, instilling them with a fear that is their primary source of nourishment. While ordinary Boogiemen are able to satiate themselves upon fear alone, corrupted ones have been known to indulge in the child's flesh as well, sometimes even devouring them whole.

Despite the terror that they are able to instill, Boogiemen are physically frail and cowardly creatures who will typically only attack lone individuals; they do not dare approach groups of travelers or enter into settlements except under extreme circumstances.

### Banboget

Banbogets are horrifying Fey creatures that hide away behind the eyes of Ib, comfortably nestling themselves within a hammock fashioned from the optical nerve. They are closely related to Sight Stalkers, but they tend to be much more passive and parasitic compared to their predatory cousins. Most of the time, Banbogets exist within an inactive state, but when their host begins to dream and experience REM sleep, they will creep forward to the front of their eye behind their lips, dipping their hideous maw into their host's pupil to inject nightmarish visions directly into their mind and begin to feed upon their terror; it is only during this feeding state when a Banboget is vulnerable to removal from external intervention. The longer they stay within a particular host, the more attuned to their fears the Banboget becomes, and the greater the terror they can inflict. If not caught and removed, then there will inevitably come a night when the host succumbs to a heart attack, at which point the Banboget will consume their brain and fill the cavity within their skull with an egg sac. The host will continue about its next day like an Overworked Zombie, and the next night when they go to bed the new brood of Banbogets will hatch and eat their way through the eye sockets in order to venture out in the world and find new hosts of their own.

### Sight Stalkers

Sight Stalkers are semi-corporeal hunters that are capable of phasing through translucent substances. On the other hand, Opaque substances of any kind act as completely impenetrable solids to Sight Stalkers, and they can only interact with their surroundings with a level of strength rivaling that of a crippled and elderly mealworm. Their primary form of predation involves them phasing through the open eyes of Ib, at which point they will near instantaneously consume them from the inside out and wear their hollowed-out skin. While donning this skin suit, the Sight Stalker will attempt to find another Ib and force it to stare into its suit's sunken eyes in order to invade and feed upon their new prey's body as well. Should the Sight Stalker succeed in this pursuit, it will give rise to an offspring that will emerge from its initial prey, whereupon the two will leave behind both empty sacks of skin to go their separate ways in seeking new prey.

### Changeling

Changelings are a sociopathic breed of shapeshifters that lead absolutely egotistical and manipulative lives. They are abandoned by their parent at their time of birth, but they soon are taken in by Spriggans who will then set them up with a family of local Ib. Instinctively, a newborn Changeling will take the form of the first infant that its Spriggan guardians present to it, and then they will enter into the care of that infant's family as the Spriggans dispose of it however they see fit. The Changeling will then be raised by this new foster family, yet they will never know any feelings of love, and they will only act in a way that ensures their caregivers provide them with everything they need for their own survival and prosperity. It is common for Changeling children to secretly murder their siblings in order to remove any competition for their family's resources. As they continue to mature, Changelings will begin to take on other identities as well, securing as stable a life as they can for themselves while joyously performing wanton acts of cruelty in secrecy. While the mechanics behind their reproduction are unclear, at some point they too will give birth to and subsequently abandon the amorphous tumor that is an infant Changeling, which will then be taken in by Spriggans.

## Cousins of the Fey

### Yokai

Yokai are another sort of anomalous creatures infused with Fey energy much akin to the Fey that are native to the Eastern Kingdom and Mikazuki Isles.

Gnomes

Dryads

Satyrs

Grinks - Small and Evil reptilian tricksters

Halflings

Gargoyles