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Fey were creatures from the Feywild, a parallel plane to the Prime, the Feywild was also called the Plane of Faerie.[4][5] Many were typified as having supernatural abilities and a connection to nature or to some other force or place.[1] The language of the fey was called Sylvan.[2]

Description[]

Many were typically humanoid in shape.[1]

Species of Fey[]

There were many different species of fey, and connections between them could be hard to identify, other than being natives of the Feywild.[6] A few common threads could be drawn between certain smaller groups, however, while some were simply impossible to classify.[speculation]

Some fey were strongly bound or associated with specific natural locations such as water bodies, landmarks, or other geographical features. These included dryads, hamadryads, nymphs, naiads, nereids, oreads, and fossergrim.[speculation]

Other fey were reported as being born from emotions felt while in the Feywild, manifested due to that plane's strange energy. Redcaps, meenlocks, boggles,[6] and mites were all included in this group.[7]

Another group that was easily identified were the hags: annises, bheur hags, sea hags, green hags,[8][9] shrieking hags, and bog hags were all considered.[10] Night hags, although related, were actually fiends.[11]

One group of fey was confusingly called sprites, despite this being a specific name for one of its included members. All "sprites" were small, mostly humanoid fey, that typically displayed some insect-like attributes (such as wings). Besides the classical sprite for which the group was named,[12] there were the sea sprites,[13] shrub sprites,[14] the light makers of Chult,[15] grigs, nixies, pixies,[12] and atomies.[16] The winterling, despite also being small and winged, was not included.[17] Conversely, the sakina of Zakhara were considered "sprites", despite not exhibiting any of the typical features of one.[18]

Yet another diverse group of minuscule fey were the gremlins, who descended from goblins transformed by fomorian rituals.[19] They included the fremlin, galltrit, jermlaine, snyad,[20] and the plainsjan that inhabited the planet Anadia in Realmspace.[21] Mites were also considered by some to be members of this group.[20]

Of course, many fey could not be classified into any larger group beyond being related to either nature or emotion.[speculation] These included:

History[]

Stories about the fey went back eons, to the Days of Thunder.[23] Some claimed that fey creatures known as the leShay were one of these creator races,[24] who had created or progenerated the many kinds of fey, possibly including elves.[23][25]

Following the Year of Risen Elfkin, 1375 DR, an ancient fey kingdom known as Sarifal returned from the Feywild to takeover the island of Gwynneth in the Moonshae Isles.[26]

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References[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Skip Williams, Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook (July 2003). Monster Manual v.3.5. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 309. ISBN 0-7869-2893-X.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams (July 2003). Player's Handbook v.3.5. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 82. ISBN 0-7869-2886-7.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Mike Mearls, Jeremy Crawford, Christopher Perkins (2014-09-30). Monster Manual 5th edition. Edited by Scott Fitzgerald Gray. (Wizards of the Coast). ISBN 978-0786965614.
  4. ↑ Mike Mearls, Jeremy Crawford, Christopher Perkins (2014-09-30). Monster Manual 5th edition. Edited by Scott Fitzgerald Gray. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 6. ISBN 978-0786965614.
  5. ↑ Bruce R. Cordell, Ed Greenwood, Chris Sims (August 2008). Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide. Edited by Jennifer Clarke Wilkes, et al. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 68. ISBN 978-0-7869-4924-3.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 Mike Mearls, et al. (November 2016). Volo's Guide to Monsters. Edited by Jeremy Crawford, et al. (Wizards of the Coast). ISBN 978-0786966011.
  7. ↑ Mike Mearls, Bart Carroll, Bill Benham (December 2019). Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio, Volume 1: Monsters Malevolent and Benign. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 14.
  8. ↑ Mike Mearls, Jeremy Crawford, Christopher Perkins (2014-09-30). Monster Manual 5th edition. Edited by Scott Fitzgerald Gray. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 176–179. ISBN 978-0786965614.
  9. ↑ Mike Mearls, et al. (November 2016). Volo's Guide to Monsters. Edited by Jeremy Crawford, et al. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 52–62, 159–160. ISBN 978-0786966011.
  10. ↑ Mike Mearls, Stephen Schubert, James Wyatt (June 2008). Monster Manual 4th edition. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 150. ISBN 978-0-7869-4852-9.
  11. ↑ Mike Mearls, Jeremy Crawford, Christopher Perkins (2014-09-30). Monster Manual 5th edition. Edited by Scott Fitzgerald Gray. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 178–179. ISBN 978-0786965614.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Skip Williams, Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook (July 2003). Monster Manual v.3.5. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 235–236. ISBN 0-7869-2893-X.
  13. ↑ Doug Stewart (June 1993). Monstrous Manual. (TSR, Inc), pp. 328–329. ISBN 1-5607-6619-0.
  14. ↑ Tachyon Studios (November 1996). Designed by Brian Fargo. Blood & Magic. Interplay.
  15. ↑ James Lowder (November 1992). The Ring of Winter. (TSR, Inc), chap. 10, p. 174. ISBN 978-1560763307.
  16. ↑ Gary Gygax (August 1983). Monster Manual II 1st edition. (TSR, Inc), p. 11. ISBN 0-88038-031-4.
  17. ↑ Yury Pavlotsky (October 2004). “Chilled to the Bone”. In Matthew Sernett ed. Dragon #324 (Paizo Publishing, LLC), pp. 58–62.
  18. ↑ Wolfgang Baur, Steve Kurtz (1992). Monstrous Compendium Al-Qadim Appendix. (TSR, Inc). ISBN l-56076-370-1.
  19. ↑ Mike Mearls, Greg Bilsland, Robert J. Schwalb (June 2010). Monster Manual 3 4th edition. Edited by Greg Bilsland, et al. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 106. ISBN 978-0-7869-5490-2.
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 Doug Stewart (June 1993). Monstrous Manual. (TSR, Inc), p. 174. ISBN 1-5607-6619-0.
  21. ↑ Dale "slade" Henson (April 1991). Realmspace. Edited by Gary L. Thomas, Karen S. Boomgarden. (TSR, Inc), p. 87. ISBN 1-56076-052-4.
  22. ↑ Spike Y. Jones (June 1994). “The Dragon's Bestiary: The good, the bad and the clumsy”. In Kim Mohan ed. Dragon #206 (TSR, Inc.), pp. 71–74.
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 Brian R. James, Ed Greenwood (September 2007). The Grand History of the Realms. Edited by Kim Mohan, Penny Williams. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 7–8. ISBN 978-0-7869-4731-7.
  24. ↑ Brian R. James (June 2009). “Realmslore: Sarifal”. In Chris Youngs ed. Dragon #376 (Wizards of the Coast), p. 64.
  25. ↑ Paulina Claiborne (May 2012). The Rose of Sarifal (Kindle ed.). (Wizards of the Coast), chaps. 11, 15. ASIN B006NPFFHY.
  26. ↑ Bruce R. Cordell, Ed Greenwood, Chris Sims (August 2008). Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide. Edited by Jennifer Clarke Wilkes, et al. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 152. ISBN 978-0-7869-4924-3.
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