#askadhene

Sure! Most kingdoms don't allow peoples and monsters to marry, but there are some places where they could date. I think the most likely places to find a human/adhene couple are Mogdir Kingdom and Matuzu Kingdom.

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Lore Masterpost

and humans too??

Average adult human is about 5'5".

Average adhene: 3'5".

Average pixie: 6".

Pixies are like dolls compared to humans! About half the size of a Barbie doll!

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Lore Masterpost

Good question! Some people joke that an adhene's big head is full of nothing but air, but the opposite is true: they are actually very intelligent. In fact, adhene are currently the most intelligent monster species on Gaia! But do they have perfect memories like goblins? Unfortunately not.

The extra space in their head is actually full of fat. This fat does a good job protecting their brains from head trauma, which makes them more resilient in the battles Titania created them for.

A common insult for adhene is "fat-head", and this is the reason why!

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Lore Masterpost

Unless their fellow adhene care about them enough to carry them, they simply don't!

Lost/damaged wings are shameful to adhene. They are pretty vicious about it because they have no concept of love, they only care about others as long as others benefit them. A wingless adhene may be seen as a burden, so their peers just let them go and they're forced to wander the "lowly" districts below.

Whatever happens to them down there is no one's concern anymore.

Yes, Seelie adhene are nasty little snots!

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Lore Masterpost

I talked about what motivates monsters to breed in this older answer.

Now, as for how they decide who to have kids with...it varies by individual. Every faery will give you a different answer, it just depends on what's most important to them. Stability? Money? Sexual attraction? Child-rearing skills? All of these are possible answers.

Drau and adhene have a natural life expectancy of around 80-100 years. That's about on par with humans.

Pixies have rather short lifespans of 40-50 years.

And kobolds...well, they're lucky if they live to see 30. They're a mess.

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Erasmos definitely didn't intend for this to happen. It was just the result of his inexperience with monster-forging. Very rarely do monsters turn out 100% the way a divine intended...they always seem to have some kind of flaw or unexpected result.

Adhene are considered the most "perfect" monsters on Gaia. Their only flaw is that they're child-sized, but in some cases this actually benefits them.

Drau are considered the second-most perfect monsters. Their main flaw is that they're blind in daylight, although cecaelia and dworfs have similar issues and there are easy ways to cope with it (sunglasses, for example...)

Anyway, a "flaw" may actually be a boon depending on who you ask. In the demons' case, the magical guise they wear as children benefits them a lot. In fact, I'm pretty sure they would have gone extinct already if it weren't for this "flaw" of theirs.

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What we now know as "adhene" were originally called "sprights". I decided to change this and make them two completely different creatures. Now, adhene are a type of faery (monster) and sprights are a near-extinct species of people.

I imagine that courtship was largely female-dominated in most spright cultures. I'm sure they're fetishized by some, probably by gnomes more than anyone, being a similar size and all. Sprights have a naturally delicate body structure that no gnome can achieve no matter how much they diet, so I think that would make them all the more appealing to gnomes.

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