Homebrew Butterfly Fairy Species Details

Fairies range in size however the butterflies are the largest of all. standing at 3 feet tall they can  pass as a halfling most of the time. Their wings come in many designs and patterns, ranging from butterfly to beetle. While most Fairies have their wings out consistantly, butterflies can choose to hide their wings while they are walking.  They often look like tiny elves, with pointed ears and ranging skin tones. They carry the normal array of human skin tones as well as light shades of the rest of the spectrum of colours, coming from light shades of red to copper and bronze. They can even carry small attributes of the insect family they hail from, including antennae, fluff, and wing styles. Their eyes often look like molten liquid but the pupils can be visible if you can ever get a close enough look. They love vibrantly coloured clothes or shiny metal armour, something that speaks about their personality on a level that other pixies and some people can understand. 

In the world, most fairies make their homes in deep forests or hidden grottos beneath the hills of the Moonshae Isles, the Butterflies rule over these haveing grand kingdoms thats shift between the natural realm and the celestrial, far beyond the sight of other humanoids. In these places, fairies cast their shimmering lights to colour their domains in incandescent hues, gradually shifting from soft red to bright yellow to deep violet and back again. Some say that the realms of the fairies are the places where rainbows begin and end, and those rainbows are fairy roads emanating from the light of the kingdoms they connect, which can be seen by mortals only when the sun shines through the rain. Though fairies prefer to keep out of sight, they can be found almost anywhere in the Feywild. As intrinsically magical as they are whimsical, fairies enhance the world around them with their presence. 

Fairies will often take on the names of humans or elves, and sometimes those of the plants and trees that they find their homes in. 

Butterfly Fairy Traits

Your wings have a fine loose powder that trails behind you in a color to match your wings; wings can range in many different shades and colors. Many patterns carry multiple colors while some only carry a single color in varying shades; your wings may also come in many designs that are both elegant and subtle. You can have some aspects of the insect which you resemble like, you carry a small amount of fuzz around your neck and on your arms, as well as the long elegant antennae of butterflies.

Language

You can speak, read and write Common, Elvish, and Sylvan

Speed

 Your base walking speed of 20 feet. You have a flying speed of 30 feet and you can hover no more than 10 feet off the ground if you are more than 10 feet off the ground when you end your turn you will fall until you are within 10 feet of the ground.

Invisibility

Once you reach 3rd level, you can cast the invisibility spell once with this trait, requiring no material components, and you regain the ability to cast it this way when you finish a short or long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

Shrink

2 times per a long rest you can touch an object that is sized for a Medium or Small creature and shrink it to a size appropriate for you. If the object is a weapon, decrease its damage dice by one size unless it has the finesse or light weapon properties (the versatile damage dice of that weapon also decreases). If it is a container, such as a backpack or coin purse, all objects inside shrink proportionately. You can have multiple object shrunk at once but once the object leaves your person, it container or you die, it returns to its original size.

Fairy Dust

At 5th level, you can cast the levitate spell once and need to finish a long rest before you can cast it again. When you reach 12th level, you can also cast the fly spell once and need to finish a long rest before you can cast it Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Darkvision

You're accustomed to living in twilight forests and dark undergrowths. 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 can't discern colour in darkness, only shades of grey.

Age

It's unknown how long a fairy actually lives, however, it's speculated they reach maturity at the same time as a human child and can live to be an average of at least 750 years old.

Size

Fairies are normally tiny creatures, however as the royalty of the fairies the butterflies are larger than most. They can get up to three feet tall. they can pass as halflings.