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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]

Appendix[]

See Also[]

References[]

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  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.
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