Homebrew Fairy of the Ilyë Species Details

Wandering trough the deep green forests she came to a beautiful little stream, on which's sides wonderful flowers grew. She kneeled down to the water, and in it she saw herself. She saw her own beautiful red face, similar to the wings of the butterfly, or the Crown of a tree. She saw now, that all things where similar, and everything belonged. In this moment she felt the weight of separation and loneliness fall off like shells of an egg. And nothing remained, except the endless void of Ilyë.

From Nature Herself

Fairies are small magical beings, with a glowing humanoid body and butterlfy-like wings.  They are often friendly and they love to whistle and to play little games with the birds or the trees. They get approximately 300 Years old, but they don't really have a concept of time or age, they usually stay pretty childish all their live. They don't have a concept of gender as well, but have a very open sexuality. Most Fairies are intersex.

Fairies are born from Nature. They don't come out of a womb, but a cocoon of leafs or panels, that was sprinkled by the Love and Life-force of one or more beings (mostly other Fairies, but not necessarily). They inhabit the Forests of the Lands, and even though they are loving and caring with one another, they don't often live in groups, but separate and live in symbiosis with other beings.

Non-Duality and Spirituality

The live of a fairy is spiritual by its nature. They are able to feel all beings and things as one, and see themselves as part of the great whole.

The Great Whole (Ilyë): The Egg (Ohte), the Being (Ango), the Lifeforce (Cuilë), the Void (Cylia). 

This ability of Feeling is called sanastëa (Awareness), and it brings with itself a Devine Duty: To protect everything and anything from the only harm, which is the úpar (Unbalance). Fairies are bound to this task by the nature of their being. They don't pray to a good, they don't follow a leader, they are bound to nature and nature is bound to them equally. They give and take life in order to care for Ilyë, similar to how humans grow some, and tear out other plants, in order to care for their garden. They treasure all things and opposites equally. 

For this reason most fairies are Druids. And most of them are true neutral, beyond good and evil, beyond love and hate, beyond life and death.

Fairy Names

Fairies are named by nature. Each fairy represents a plant, a stone, an element or an animal or even an abstract concept of nature. 

Some names are: Lassë (Leaf), Alda (Tree), Albë (Elm), Mirupio (Wineberry), Insil (Flower), Nénar (Water), Andúnië (Sunset), Olossë (Fallen Snow), Lantë (Fall), Yávié (Autumn)

Fairy of the Ilyë Traits

Fairies share certain racial traits, but also vary greatly in personality.

Ability Score Increase

Your Dexterity score increases by 1, and your Wisdom score increases by 2.

Age

Fairies live for about 300 Years. They don't have a concept of age, but stay pretty child like throughout their life.

Size

Fairies are tiny. The get to be about 3 inches.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 5 feet. You have a flying speed of 30 feet.

Darkvision

You have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. 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 color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and Infernal.

Trance

Fairies don’t need to sleep. Instead, they meditate deeply, remaining semiconscious, for 4 hours a day. (The Common word for such meditation is “trance.”) While meditating, you can dream after a fashion; such dreams are actually mental exercises that have become reflexive through years of practice. After resting in this way, you gain the same benefit that a human does from 8 hours of sleep.

Fairy Magic

You can make your skin glow at will, this costs you no action. 

To not be seen by evil eyes, you can create a magical illusion, which hides your body. If you do this, an observer will only see your wings and will assume that you are a bug or butterfly. This doesn't work if you're seen while changing. Your trick can be seen with either a Perception Check with a DC equal to your Spell safe DC, or with a Detect Magic Spell.

Also you know the druidcraft cantrip. Starting at 3rd level, you can cast faerie fire with this trait once per long rest.

Fey Ancestry

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

Magical Wings

If your wings are cut or damaged, your inherent magic causes them to regrow by the end of a long rest. Until then you cannot fly and take -3 dexterity. 

Tiny Dimensions

Due to being of tiny size, several things apply:

• You have proficiency on Stealth.
• You can end your turn within the space of another creature.
• You get +2 AC because you are hard to hit.
• You have a reach of 0ft. You must occupy the same space as your target of a melee attack, or a spell requiring Touch.
• You have disadvantage on all Strength rolls.