Category:Fayrie

The Fay live in Faierie, a land of enchantment, illusion, and general all-around magic. They are themselves fundamentally creatures of magic, and can be in turns mischievous, helpful, and obscure.

are the fay immortal? can they die at all? can they only die of natural causes.... or even only die of natural ones? OOoo, it could be like an inverse of elves, they live so long and they cannot die in anyway except by their age! that would be funky!

ok here is a crazy idea: fay cannot "die" untill they age to a certain point, but what if physical events can turn them to dust, fayrie dust, thats what gives it so much power. fairy dust is actualy the dormant remains of fairies and can only be retured to its physical form when...psh i dont know, retuerd to its birth place, or tears, or fire, or maybe a whole ritual but whatever the case they should be able to be revived reletivly easily. in the mean time though, fairy dust then becomes a powerfull tool long with a highly debatable moral subject.--Zack 23:48, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I like where this is going. Maybe Fay can choose to spall off fairy dust as well. That way, physical damage, or the Fay's will can convert them into this passive form. However, using fayrie dust for your own ends doesn't actually consume the fay, it just gives the fay partial controll of your spell, binding the fay, but empowering it as well. Thus Fay can lend others their power, but they also gain a hand and knowlege in whatever it is used for. I'd say that, barring outside influence, Fayrie dust re-coagulates into the fay it came from after some time has passed. Fayrie dust could also be magical energy, created by plants in Faierie, and any fay can eat fayrie dust (from plants, or other fay). Consuming the fayrie dust from plants gives the Fay properties of those plants as well. In this way, the fay are all intertwined.

Perhaps the Fay are also graduated in power. Some are greater creatures, with a longer lifespan, and an ability to absorb more fayrie dust. If a fay eats too much, the dust begins to spaul off, and could make the fay unstable. There could be lots of different types of fayrie dust as well, reflecting its origins, potency, uses, and character. The very soil of the great enchanted forests would sparkle with the stuff.Ziggy 06:11, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

i like the idea of its not consuming the fay...cuz then you run into all kinds of moral snags. Even with this system we are still going to get magic hungry creatures though, wich im sure will add nicely to the story. I also like the idea of fairy dust empowered spells. That way anyone who would use spells in an evil way, they Fay would be able to stop the spell or at least channel it deffensivly, but if there were fay that wished to be used by evil...then we have an interesting delema. so what about the dust from pants and such?

is the dust from plants not as potant as the dust of a dormant Fay?

also, test here to see if we are on the same page. for example, Peter pan: to fly the children need fairy dust, but because its the dust from tinkerbell she can mold the spell such that only a person wih happy thoughts can fly, protecting her magic from the piraites. is this the basic idea?--Zack 16:38, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking. If a fay is reduced to fayrie dust before its lifespan is up, then using the dust also allows the fay to partially controll the spell even after it is cast, since the will of the fay gets bound into the spell too. The difference between plant and Fay dust could be both a matter of potency, as well as the fact that plants have no active will, and therefore won't mess up your spell. Plant-originated dust could also be ill-suited for certain kinds of magic. On the other hand, certain magical plants could produce specialized forms of fayrie dust, so to cast spells requires gathering all the right kinds of dust together. Lots of places we can go with this. When a spell is broken, or expires, it would dissolve into the component fayrie dust (or whatever was left over) and the captured Fay could then re-emerge.Ziggy 17:12, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

ok but there is still a normal use of spells without Fay dust corect? they are just far less potant?--Zack 19:58, 1 April 2008 (UTC)