Homebrew Feywild Fairy Species Details

The Feywild is home to many fantastic peoples, including Feywild Fairies.  Closely related to pixies and sprites, Feywild Fairies are a small folk, but can shift their form at will to become as tiny as their cousins.  Although they can occasionally be found visiting or living amongst Elves, they most often make their homes in protected magical glades that glitter with faerie lights in a multitude of colors, and are infused with pleasing fragrances that waft on the breeze.  Their dwellings are crafted from living nature and imbued with magic, and small animals and birds are given somewhat free roam as friends and pets.

Their glades sometimes briefly shift into the Material Plane, especially on the solstices, in places of immense natural beauty before fading quietly back into the Feywild.  Constantly guarded by magic, entering during an interlude on the Material Plane could occur only by chance, as they require such keys as 'turning widdershins seven times in the middle of a fairy ring', or 'walking the Hawthorne Path between the Sun and the Moon'.  The method varies by glade and time and place, though few other than Fey would dare try, and Feyborn can sense the glades and request entry despite the keys.  Those of good heart are usually warmly welcomed, while those of less clear or dark intentions are denied entry or watched closely while within.  On clear quiet nights, especially during one of their celebrations, their enchanting music will sometimes subtly echo across the land.  All sentient beings who hear it are affected, but those who aren't of Fey lineage often find themselves held enraptured by its ethereal beauty.

As with most Fairies, Feywild Fairies speak Elvish and Sylvan, sometimes Goblin, and frequent encounters with those who speak Common have led many to learn it as well.

Infused with the magic of the Feywild, most Feywild Fairies look like Small Elves with insectile wings.  Their coloration encompasses the normal human range, but can also extend beyond to all the shades of nature, especially in their hair and eyes. No matter the color of their eyes, they are more vivid and luminescent than those of a normal human, and like Elves they can appear as pools of liquid gold or silver. They have no facial and little body hair. They favor elegant clothing in bright colors, and they enjoy simple yet lovely jewelry.

Their names are the same as those traditionally used by Elves.

Each one has a special physical characteristic that sets them apart. For your Feywild Fairy, roll on the Fey Characteristics table or choose an option from it. You’re also free to come up with your own characteristic if none of the suggestions below fit your character.

Fey Characteristics

 

Feywild Fairy Traits

As a fairy, you have the following racial traits:

Creature Type

You are a Fey.  You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put you to sleep.

As a Feywild Fairy, you can roll for, or choose, a Fey Characteristic.

 

Size

You can shift between size Small and size Tiny at will.  Items worn or carried when you shift will resize with you.  Additionally, you can choose to hide your wings by shifting them away.  This is usually done to protect them, or to disguise your nature.  Any transformation from one state to another takes 1 round, although changing size and hiding or regaining your wings can be done in the same round.

While Small, Feywild Fairies normally stand between 3'8" and 4'2" inches tall and average 38 pounds.  Your size modifier is 2d4.

• Height: 3'6" + your size modifier in inches
• Weight in Pounds: 34 + your size modifier in pounds

While Tiny, Feywild Fairies are typically between 6" and 9" tall and average 7.5 pounds.  Your size modifier is 1d4.

• Height: 5" + your size modifier in inches
• Weight in Pounds: 5 + your size modifier in pounds

Your size will impact your Strength and Dexterity saves and ability checks, as well as your melee attack damage.  While Tiny, your Strength is at a disadvantage, while your Dexterity is at and advantage.  Additionally, while Tiny your Strength modifier for melee attack weapon damage suffers a penalty of -2.

 

Speed

Your walking speed: 25 feet while Small / 10 feet while Tiny
Your flying speed: 25 feet when Small / 40 feet while Tiny

Wearing medium armor incurs a -5 penalty to flight speed, while wearing heavy armor incurs a -10 penalty.  Certain magical armors, especially those Fey-made, will not incur this penalty (DM discretion).  This flight is both magical and physical in nature.  Should either one be interrupted you can still hover, but your flying speed is halved.

 

Dark Vision

You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light and in darkness as if it were dim light. You discern colors in that darkness only as shades of gray.

 

Keen Senses

Due to your keen senses, you have proficiency in the Perception skill.

 

Nature Kin

Due to your close relationship with nature, you have proficiency in the Nature skill.

 

Fairy Magic

You know the Druidcraft and Minor Illusion cantrips.

At first level you can cast Misty Step, at second level you can cast Invisibility on yourself only and with no material component, and at third level you can cast Faerie Fire. Once you cast Misty Step, Invisibility, or Faerie Fire with this trait, you can’t cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest. You can also cast these spells using any spell slots you have of the appropriate level.

Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait (choose when you select this race).

 

Trance

You don’t need to sleep, and magic can’t put you to sleep. You can finish a long rest in 4 hours if you spend those hours in a trancelike meditation, during which you retain consciousness.