The Fey/Characteristics

## Characteristics

### Dominion

**Dominion** refers to the natural right to influence the world inherent to the Fey, and is a power possessed by every Fey regardless of alignment, allegiance, subspecies, disposition or nature. A *Dominion* refers to the capacity of the Fey to influence the Anima to manifest feats that appear to rival the greatest of magics, if not appear to approach reality warping altogether. The most powerful of Archfey are capable of influencing the Anima to such an extent that they can demonstrate and manifest "godlike power" over creation, demonstrating the capacity to warp the expression of the Anima on a fundamental level encoded within a particular region and modify it to fit their needs. While the Archfey typically tend to have vast and expansive Dominions, having such an extensive affinity with the Anima that they can accomplish feats that may not be typically associated with their allegiances, most Fey typically have a tendency to specialize in achieving a particular phenomenon or in some instances a range of phenomena.

Most of the time, for normal Fey, these particular Dominions draw power from or are related to the faction or the House of the Court of Stars that the particular Fey are most attuned to. Even for Archfey, their Dominions appear to be more attuned to or alternatively the Archfey prefer utilizing their Dominions to achieve specific groups of phenomenon, even though these Archfey are capable of achieving far more than the average Fae Folk. The Dominion of a Fey also comes with a secondary purpose that is directly connected to another characteristic of the Fey, referred to as a Fey's Heritage.

### Prominence

**Prominence** refers to the ability of those that boast a Heritage that can be traced back to the original group of Fey that came into existence at a point in causality (separate from time) that the Fey refer to as the Genesis. These Fey, referred to as the *Anonymous (wip name)*, possessing the ability of Prominence have demonstrated the ability to seemingly fabricate from naught but pure thought powerful supernatural weapons that surpass that which can be crafted by mortal hands. Typically, these weapons were formed from the essence of each individual Fey as if they were extensions of his or her own body.

However, the particularly adept Fey have demonstrated the ability to construct artifacts that embody a specific thought, concept or idea as perceived by them. As an artifact created by the Prominence of a member of the Fae Folk themselves, these artifacts are inscribed with what are referred to as Fairy Letters, a highly advanced Sylvan cipher engraved on it to indicate the fact that these artifacts originate from the Prominence of a Fey. In essence, this becomes the ability of a Fey to crystallize a concept into an artifact, creating (name in progress). These are armaments not created by human hands, artifacts defined as a god or a "*comparable being*". They are armaments that surpass human limits and hold tremendous power.

While the Fey are not the only such beings capable of producing this, they are one of the most famous for being able to do so.

### Heritage and Form

**Heritage** refers to the inherent abilities of a Fey given by what is referred to as the *Form* of the Fey, a term that is best understood as the subspecies of Fey under consideration. It refers to the physical abilities and biological characteristics of such a Fey, such as wings, supernatural senses, and supernatural abilities that might not be characterized as the ability's stemming from one's Dominion or one's Prominence.

The Fey are sufficiently diverse that attempting to catalogue them all is an effort in futility, as among the Fey there are creatures of all different shapes and sizes, and at times even levels of sentience. The Form of a Fey refers to their particular subspecies, which may or may not be categorizable with other types of Fey. Ranging from dryads, hamadryads, nymphs and the like (the kin of Verenestra), to pixies and other sprites, even to hags and fairy grandmothers, due to the multifarious nature of the Fae Folk it is theorized that is possible for one to have ancestry of Fey lineage without any overt physical characteristics to indicate such. These classifications are referred to as **Forms.**