Overview
Fairy are a sapient extraterrestrial species of humanoids, with pointed ears and two pairs of insect wings or bird-like wings growing on their back. From birth and throughout their childhood, they are the size of average bugs until puberty when they have a growth spurt to their adult size in less than a week. In addition, when an adult fairy dies, their bodies rearrange overnight into that of a juvenile fairy, where the previous sense of self is lost and a new one is born. Males are called Sprites and females are called Nymphs.
Quick Species Profile (Faerie yosei) Life Expectancy Average: 2000 years Max: Biologically Immortal Average Height: 2’6”-4’4″/76-130 cm-for adults, 1-3 inch/2.5-7.6 cm-children Average Weight: 40 to 80 lbs Hair: Black, Brown, Blonde, Green, Red/Orange, White, Pink, Purple Eyes: Brown, Hazel, Amber, Green, Blue, Gray, Purple Creature Type: Faye Humanoid
Biology
Appearance
Appear as short yet proportionately slim humanoids with lightly pointed ears and two pairs of (insectoid or avian) wings that grow from their backs. Their height is uniformly small, where from birth they can fit in the palm of a hand, up to the size of an older child, around 130 cm; there is hardly any fairy outside of this scope. Peri fairy subspecies are different as they be as tall as 5 feet/152 cm.
The children are very small in stature, often able to fit in the palm of an adult human or fairy. Often born less then an inch, they average from 1 to 3 inches during childhood.
Physiological Traits
Mana & Magnetic Field Generation– From childhood, fairies can create a personal mana field and small magnetic fields from their palms that both get stronger by adulthood. These fields can be used as an invisible cushion off the ground to provide lift for flight. They have significant amounts of naturally occurring magnetite in the lining of their wings, bones of their hands and fingers, and their eye sockets. These allow for navigation by the planet’s magnetic field. They also allow for a fairy to use these fields as a defense mechanism by repulsing the air with magnetic or magic energy into pressurized streams.
Rejuvenation-Typically when adult fairy begin to age due their body cells being unable to replicate, their bodies surge violently with biological magic. The fairy’s entire body undergoes programmed cell death and gene expression shuffling until it becomes that of a prepubescent pixie, often with a different phenotype. For roughly eight hours, the cells of a Fairy body are repaired, restored and reorganized, resulting in a wholly new physical form. The majority of nervous cells are also rearranged meaning that memories and their sense of self from their previous life cycle are typically lost, meaning a rejuvenate fairy has to live out a new personality and life from scratch. This process is often caused by old age/fatigue, severe illness, or lethal injury in the adult stage of life, as the restorative energy is built up during puberty. It can only happen when the dying body is mostly intact, for example, missing limbs are fine but the head needs to remain attached to the torso.
Wings– Fairy of all ethnicities and sub-species have four wings that grow from their upper back, where the shoulder blades are located to enable flight. There are those with clear veined wings like dragonflies, those with scaled wings like moths or butterflies, and the rare feathered wings that belong to the Peri subrace. These are wings most important for the flight patterns of pixies. Although the wings are not necessary to get adult fairies into the air, they are the major means of propulsion once levitating off the ground.
Fairy Dust Production– Fairy dust is a special enchanted substance made from the scales (or feathers) of Fairy wings and shed skin (like dandruff) infused with some of their biological magic. In its raw state, it can cause temporary hallucinations or deep slumber when breathed in or be applied to objects to make them levitate and fly. Fairy dust is often used as a reagent in alchemy, so much that a branch is called fairy dust alchemy.
Keen Color Vision– Humans have 3 receptive cones in their eyes, allowing them to see red, blue, green and all the colors derived from them. Fairies have 5 receptive cones, meaning they can see two more colors than humans and see a massive spectrum that human brains may be unable to process. For example, fairies have excellent ultraviolet vision.
Innate Abilities
Flight– Pixies fly by constantly flapping their wings like that of insects or humming birds to stay aloft. Adult fairies need not flap their wings as often since they can rely on their natural mana field for levitation and propulsion. Instead their wings are more important for steering and speed.
Magnetoception (magnetic sense)– Biogenic crystals of magnetite, a naturally occurring mineral, can be found in certain parts of their skeletons, generally in the eye sockets, and the bones of the fingers and palms. This allows them to detect the magnetic field of the planet to navigate while flying and generate small fields within their palms. However close by magnetic materials can distort this navigation to point of disorientation.
General Diet
Berries, nuts, and various grains make up the majority of a typical fairy diet. Then what follows are various vegetables and larger fruits packed with carbohydrates to maintain their the metabolism needed for flight. For protein, most fairies are inclined towards eating various insects, snails, poultry, and seafood except for Peri who are traditionally herders of hooved mammals.
Reproduction
Fairies reproduce sexually via copulation between a adult Sprite (male) and an adult Nymph (female). A nymph will gestate her babies for roughly 4 weeks on average. A pregnant nymph will often crave foods with or direct sources of magnetic minerals like iron, nickel or even lodestone (which they typically avoid otherwise) for their babies.
A Fairy mother will experience sexual pleasure similar to orgasm rather than pain while giving birth. Some of which may have to do with the small size of the babies as they are born basically as helpless embryos, in a marsupial like fashion.
Most often a group from 2 to 6 baby fairies (pixies) are born and they feed off their mother’s milk from her 2 breasts on her chest or 4 small milk ducts that run vertically along both sides of her belly.
Lifespan and Growth
Fairies are effectively biologically immortal due to their rejuvenation ability. As such, they don’t die of natural causes like aging but can be killed by lethal injury, certain toxins, and specific diseases. However, Fairies are the most vulnerable as young sprites when they can easily be crushed or eaten if they are not careful.
Near the end of their bodies natural life, smart and educated fairies will often write “regen wills“, that give their new personality in the newly rejuvenated body an idea of what happened and where to go.
Baby: Babies are born extremely small, essentially as helpless embryos. Because of this, they have to cling to their mother’s very thin body hair and stay near their mother’s nipples or milk ducts for a month.
Pixie (Childhood): During childhood, they are often small enough to fit in an adult fairy’s hands. At this stage, they love mischief the most as they do not have a particular preference towards good or evil and are chiefly concerned with doing as they please and having fun.They play pranks on larger people such as stealing their belongings, throwing things or calling out their names.
Puberty “Growth Spurt”: For pixies, puberty involves their bodies undergoing hormonal changes give the individual the appropriate proportions, muscular and fat distribution and other secondary sex characteristics of the their adult bodies despite still being miniature sized. Once that happens, their metabolisms go into overdrive, enabling them to reach physical maturity in less than a week.
Second childhood: Called so because it is a period of disorientation due to adjusting from the size of a few inches they had for a hundred years or so to a larger permanent size in a matter of days. Also they have to adjust to a new way of flying. In their sprite sizes, they maintained flight by constantly flapping their wings in the air. Now because of their adult sizes, their personal mana field becomes large enough to reliably provide lift off the ground. So instead their wings only flap periodically to maintain flight.
Adulthood: As a full grown sprite or nymph, the Fairy has enough residual mystical energy in their bodies to undergo rejuvenation once their cells be come too old to replicate. Once they do, they will revert to a childhood pixie and go through their life cycle again. If a fairy is a rejuvenate personality, it is possible to regain a few memories from the previous life as they age.
History
Fairies have been around for a large part of Kaf’s history believed to be the offspring of Wood elves and sprites (the race not the male fairy term), each using size-shifting magic to better live with each other. During the global project designed to colonize the moon Qarin, fairies and High elves made a joint project to use humans who came via portal to determine the livability of the newly transformed lunar surface. This made the fairies one of the higher privilaged races of the Seelie Court. During the Ghul Wars, many fairies were being hunted to obtain their innate ability to revert to their youth but none of the experiments were successful.
With the destruction of near every environment and ecosystem from the many Ghul Wars, the fairies of Kaf couldn’t stand to see the dying planet, wiped out peoples and just the whole world going to crap. Maybe out of an atonement for every faction’s involvement or a chance to save a world from the brink of destruction, fairies everywhere began efforts to restore the environments of Kaf.
A large territory known as the Fairy Kingdom was set up and spread around the great forests to encourage other forest dwelling species to support the growth of forests. Fairies all over learned to commune to nature, understand the natural cycles, the life cycles of local animals and plants in order to properly maintain the ecologically balance of their own habitats. Some fairies moved from the forested areas to understand and restore other biomes of the world like grasslands, wetlands, and semiarid deserts.
It was to the point where other beings thought that Fairies spring forth from nature itself. While not exactly the case many fairies did develop innate affinities to aspects of nature, giving them an important niche to maintain the natural balance. In the era of globalization, the kingdom gradually dissolved as the United Sentient Species came to fill the role. Today many cultural occupations in fairy society revolve around maintenance of an aspect of nature and many ecological activist groups were founded by fairies.
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