Fey (Dungeons & Dragons)
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, Fey is a type of creature, or "creature type". Fey are usually humanoid in form, and are typified as having supernatural abilities and a connection to nature or to some other force or place.
Fey in the Monster Manual
There are many different types of fey creatures in Dungeons & Dragons, a number of which emulate various types of mythological faerie. The language of the fey is called Sylvan. Only six (there are many known others) of the Fey from D&D feature in the 3.5 Edition monster manual, they are:
- Dryad: The dryad is a tree-spirit with the form of a beautiful female humanoid. If a dryad leaves the vicinity of her tree for too long, she will die.
- Grig: The grig is a tiny creature with the lower body of a cricket and the upper body of a miniature humanoid. They are mischievous and lighthearted, and can play a tune on their fiddles that causes other creatures to dance uncontrollably.
- Nixie: The nixie is a water-spirit with green skin and webbed appendages. It can charm other creatures to become its friend. Nixies are guardians of freshwater pools and streams and are most commonly spotted alone. They love music and make instruments from reeds on the banks of streams. Occasionally a nixie will lure a human into the water, but they are usually more interested in company rather than drowning a visitor.
- Nymph: The nymph is a creature of unearthly beauty, with the form of a female humanoid. Her form is so beautiful that any creature looking at her can become permanently blind.
- Pixie: The pixie is a small, winged creature with a knack for pranks and mischief. Pixies are always invisible (unless they choose not to be), and carry special arrows that either make victims fall asleep, or cause them to forget everything they know. They are commonly found in groups of 3 to 5, but sometimes can be spotted alone. Pixies are particularly known for knotting hair, leading people astray, and pinching skin black and blue.
- Satyr: The Satyr is a hedonistic creature that frolics in the wild places of the world. It has the legs of a goat and horns on its head but otherwise looks human. It can play magical tunes on its pan pipes that cause varying effects as decided by the satyr.
(Note:The descriptions above were only brief descriptions. For more information, click on the names of the creatures to go to their main articles.)
Fey from the Tome of Horrors
Fey from other sources
- Banshrae
- Fauns are elf-like fey women with strands of fur on their shoulders, breasts, elbows, and thighs.[1]
- Thorns are nomadic, green-skinned hunters/rogues who dwell in cactus fields in the desert. They are short, rarely exceeding 2 or 3 feet, and are relatively humanoid. They have rather thin limbs. They have sharp yet precise facial features, and commonly arrange their blonde hair in a conical shape. Their skin, as said before, is pale green in color, and is covered in a layer of soft spiny hairs, hence it mirrors the skin of their Cacti homes.
Thorns, for the most part, are a peaceful and reclusive race which ignores and is ignored by the civilized world. They dwell far away in the desert, carving out dwellings from Cacti and constructing huts from reeds and tumbleweed. Their main interest is to hunt and survive, and if attacked they would typically rather flee and establish a village someplace else, but nonetheless, thorns can be fierce fighters. In addition to large numbers (Thorns usually attack in hordes, they also have the benefit of camouflage (remember their cactus-like skin and their preferred habitat), plus the thorny defences that both their skin and their cactusy homes provide. They fight with small spears tipped with cactus thorns, and an exotic, cross-shaped weapon known as the Thorndel. Thorns are usually peaceful, however, and, also as said before, would rather run than fight unless for a particularly special reason. Thorns speak Undercommon, and a buzzing, clicking tongue of their own. They are neutral in alignment.[2]
- Ocean strider
- Jermlaine
- Sirine
- Spirit of the Land
- Spriggan
- Frost Virago
- Half-Fey are the offspring of a fey with a mortal, most often humans, their shapes and forms are as varied as the fey themselves.
- Feytouched - Mortals descended from Fey; have immunnity from mind affecting spells
Notes
- ^ Deities and Demigods
- ^ Burlew, Rich, Eric Cagle, Jesse Decker, Andrew J. Finch, Gwendolyn F.M. Kestrel, Rich Redman, Matthew Sernett, Chris Thomasson, and P. Nathan Toomey. Monster Manual III (Wizards of the Coast, 2004)
References
- Greenwood, Ed. "The Ecology of the Korred." Dragon #119 (TSR, 1987).
- Menzies, Gordon R. "The Ecology of the Satyr." Dragon #155 (TSR, 1990).
- Richards, Jonathan M. "The Ecology of the Nymph." Dragon #240 (TSR, 1997).
- Wilson, Shaun. "The Ecology of the Dryad." Dragon #87 (TSR, 1984).
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