Fairies are beautiful, magical winged creatures who resemble humanoid women with wings.
Description
Nature and Behaviour
Fairies are aware of their beauty and love to gaze at their reflections. They consider looking at themselves such a delight that at times they will deny the pleasure to others. They tend to be vain, selfish creatures with little empathy. Fairies rarely use Silvian, their language, except to trade insults. They pretend not to care what mortals think of them, but if given a compliment, they will blush with delight and seek for another. Flattery is one of the best means of capturing them.
Fairies are master gardeners and have a knack for making vegetation bloom. A good number are kept in captivity, but many more still live in the wild. A captive fairy becomes obedient and submissive and cannot use magic to escape. Fairies are highly territorial, nonmigratory creatures and will happily make their home in a place where food, gardens, and other enchanted creatures are plentiful. Supernatural laws dictate, however, that if caught and kept indoors too long, a fairy becomes an Imp.
Physical Description
Fairies can appear as hummingbirds, bumblebees, butterflies, or dragonflies to the mortal eye. In their true form, fairies gleam more brilliantly than any flower, much like how the sun outshines the moon. They range in size from one to four inches, but when enchanted, their lithe, athletic bodies can become human sized.
Some fairies look Asian, African, or European, while some are otherworldly with blue skin and emerald-green hair. Popular hair colors include platinum silver, fiery red, honey blonde, and midnight black. Their wings are typically their most stunning feature. Most wings are patterned after butterflies or dragonflies but are more elegantly shaped and radiantly colored. Some even look like stained glass.
A jinn harp
Some Arizona fairies come in earthy shades. There are fairies with thorny wings and tails, fairies covered in reptilian scales with chameleonic abilities to match different backgrounds, fairies with plumage that fans out from their heads and bodies, fairies with tiger-striped wings, fairies that look like growing June bugs, and fairies with bat-like wings. Fairies can differ in appearance depending on species. Downy Fountain Sprites hale from the island of Roti- their bodies are coated with a pale blue fuzz. Albino Nightgrifters are milky white fairies from Borneo with moth-like wings speckled with flecks of black. The tiny Banda Sea Sunwings are not even an inch tall, with vibrant butterfly wings that resemble stained glass.
Powers and Abilities
Fairies may seem innocuous, but their magic can transform ordinary objects into magical or amazing things-turn bubbles into anything from balls of fire to miniature globes of ice thorns to shimmering rainbows. Their magic can also heal injuries and their mere presence in jack-o-lanterns can help protect a house from the terrors of Midsummer. Their magic can also do terrifying things. Fairies have been known to shatter glass, turn creatures to stone or into misshapen forms like a hideous walrus-like sea beast. Fairies can even make structures like a human's tree house fall and break apart and they can project magic in the form of painful sparkles or colourful light. A fairy's wings allow them to fly and they are as quick and as agile as dragonflies when in flight, making them extremely hard to catch by all but the fairy hunters.
The Fairy Queen's magic potion can make fairies grow as tall as humans and their magic grows along with them. All their powers grow stronger and they can manipulate the earth, cover a building in muck, soil and rock and change it into a hill, restore most of their fallen allies like a broken golem or fairies who were turned into glass and shattered and break spells. They gain the ability to change ordinary objects into powerful weapons- blades of grass become spears, snail shells change into shields, and flower petals become flaming battle-axes. They can infuse their weapons with magic and conjure wands which can project steam. Their queen's potion also grants them the power to change imps back into fairies with a kiss. With their queen's blessing, fairies can change a human into fairykind by kissing her and infusing her with their magic. While it is presumed that they can give their blessing while in their tiny form, they may only be able to convert others to fairykind when their powers are enhanced by the Fairy Queen's potion.
Known Species of Fairies
Fairies of all types can be found on the magical preserves.
Appearances
Fablehaven
They are first seen in the backyard of the preserve, and appeared as hummingbirds, bumblebees, dragonflies, and a stunning variety of beautiful butterflies. A while later when Kendra and Seth drank the milk, they saw the fairies in their true form for the first time. They were described as slender women about 2 inches tall with beautiful pairs of hummingbird, butterfly, bumblebee, or dragonfly wings. Some had scales, some had fur, and some even had tails or antenna. They were in a large variety of bright colors. Later, with the help of a Fairy Army and the Fairy Queen, Kendra was able to defeat the demon Bahumat.
Known Fairies
- Shiara: The fairy who is closest to Kendra who was helpful and was also helpful to Patton Burgess in the past. Shiara also raised Raxtus as her own dragon son.
- Unnamed fairy: She has fiery red hair, shimmering dragonfly wings, pale skin and wears a white dress. She was captured by Seth and was accidentally changed into an imp. During the attack of the fairy army, she was restored to her true form. She forgave Seth and restored Seth's youth.
- Unnamed fairy: She has fiery red wings the shape of flower petals and she helped Kendra discover how to get into the maze where the first horn of a unicorn resides.
- Yolie: She is one of the many fairies in the Fairbanks' fairy collection. She is described as having very dark skin and fanciful wings with Tiger stripes.
- Larina: She is one of the many fairies in the Fairbanks' fairy collection. she is described as large and feathery, with elaborate plumage fanning out behind her head.)
- Unnamed fairy: A petite fairy with short red hair and translucent dragonfly wings.
- Unnamed fairy: A yellow fairy with black highlights marking her butterfly wings. She has pale skin and long honey blonde tresses. Se was once an imp.