Player character races: Sprite

Sprite

Faerie type: Fire spirit
size: 1 foot tall

Sprites are the most mischievous of Light and Dusky Elves; their antics are often cruel and reckless. They don’t usually mean to harm anyone, but this happens sometimes. They are quite boisterous and due to their chaotic nature they never think things through properly. Many other Elves do not get on easily with Sprites as they are always making mischief and causing trouble. Sprites often use their magic to trick other Faeries or humans by leading them astray or causing them to become lost.

Physical description:
 
Sprites are thin and delicate looking with angular faces and hair that is thick and wild about the head, often golden or silver in colour. However there is much more to them than meets the eye. As their name suggests, sprites are full of energy - they never seem to stop. They are nimble and quick and are always in a rush. Their eyes are bright and fiery and some also have antennae on their foreheads.

Core abilities and skills:

• Transform into a Will ‘o’ Wisp (a tiny globe of magical light, impervious to attacks except from magic or water) and can fly through the smallest gap

• Fire divination (communicate with sources of fire)

• Start with two magic spells and one weapon skill

Dark Elf Counterpart: Will ‘O’ Wisp

If a Sprite becomes too cruel and evil, it transforms into a Will 'o' Wisp and the Sprite will lose its own physical body permanently. However, Will ‘o’ Wisps are able to possess the bodies of other faeries and even humans, for this reason they are also sometimes known as ‘Dopplegangers’. Many Humans think Will 'o' Wisps are evil spirits or that they are simply mischievous Faeries or magic lanterns carried by them, while others believe they are ghosts – lost human souls who are stuck between the land of living humans and the world of Faerie. Will 'o' Wisps will often lead humans and Faeries astray into dangerous parts of Faerie Wood or posses their bodies. They are not to be trusted, and are best avoided.

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