Homebrew Buttery sprite Species Details

They are pure fey, but love visiting the Material Plane and spending time there. How they came to find this plane even existed is simple. A group now referred to buttery sprites as Frontier-Finders began snooping around some archfey who had made a pact with mortal warlocks. Deciding this place would be absolutely fun to visit, they set out to find a stable path to and from the fey plane. To them, sharing the open ways forged by elves were dour and bland. So they searched for a newer one. So they went to one of the eladrin elven cities, which flickered between the planes. Upon arriving, they went searching for days, until they came by a wizard who studied the links between the planes. Thus he told them about faerie gates, or "pixie gates." Though not made by pixies themselves, the gates would work fine, as they were told. Faerie gates are little arches with bells on the tops that allow small fey to travel between planes, as pixies and sprites are more likely to be benevolent compared to larger fey. It was a commonly thought idea that large fey's offsprings were more dangerous and malevolent.

When they crossed over they came to an old abbey full of peaceful monks who were quite hospitable. Although the buttery sprite stole food, the monks understood that they sometimes had to find ways to sustain themselves against more powerful fey. This point is why buttery fey love butter. The monks accidentally created some butter chunks in the cream they left one night and the sprites loved it. As they consumed more and more of it, their physiology changed and, after years of this, they came to be called 'buttery' sprites.

Buttery sprite Traits

Fairies that love butter

Ability Score Increase

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

Darkvision

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.

Trance

You focus on reflexive mermories, either from the feywild, material plane, or both. You don't need to sleep. Instead, you meditate deeply, remaining semiconscious, for 4 hours a day. After resting in this way, you gain the same benefit that a human does from 8 hours of sleep. If you meditate during a long rest, you finish the rest after only 4 hours. You otherwise obey all the rules for a long rest; only the duration is changed.

Invisibility

At 5th level, you can cast the invisibility spell once at will. You regain use of this trait after finishing a long rest.

Fly.

Fly. You have a flight speed of 25 feet, and can not fly higher than 25 feet. You must not be wearing medium or heavy armor to use this speed.

Oily

Oily. Like the butter you love so much, you are quite slippery from the fat. You have advantage in checks to escape grapples.