Petal

Petals were small, well-meaning fey whose habits often endangered those they tried to "help".

Description
Petals were small fey, only about tall and weighing only. Their skin color was always some flowery shade, anything from a pale pastel to vibrant red or yellow. In place of hair, they had a flower-like blossom, typically of a different shade than their skin. They were known to be patterned, with speckles or stripes, or paler tips or centers. The wings were of a like color and pattern to the skin.

Personality
While they were often viewed by other fey as mischievious pests, petals were, though whimsical, only doing what they saw as right and good.

Abilities
Petals had only their magical singing with which to fight and defend themselves, but it was potent enough for their preferred purposes. Their singing had two forms: the first was a lullaby that any petal could sing, and which lulled any creature within a radius around the petal as if by the lullaby spell. The second form required two or more petals, but it effected any creature within of either petal, as if by the sleep spell. Any further petals who joined the sleep song only strengthened it. However, a creature that managed to resist the effects of a song was uneffected by that song for the next 24 hours.

Society
Petals lived in temperate forests, where they typically served more powerful fey, such as sprites or dryads, as messengers, attendents, and servants; in other cases, they would cluster near a powerful plant creature such as a treant for protection.

In the philosophy of petals, all travellers and adventurers needed a restful sleep, and all deserved to wake up refreshed and surrounded by beauty. In order to carry out this philosophy, however, they would sing travellers to sleep, divest them of their gear and garb them instead in clothing made of flowers, and left their victim to awake in an idyllic environment. They piled the removed items nearby, never stealing anything, for that would be wrong.

In practice, however, nearby predators and unscrupulous persons were happy to take advantage of the opportunities that petals inadvertantly provided them.

Rumors & Legends
Campfire stories were told about both petals and thorns to children in the Dalelands to keep them from journeying to far into the forests there.