Many tales of faeries surround them with light and kindness, faery dust and happiness, but those are tales of fantasy. Not every light faery is good, and not every dark faery is evil. All faeries are born in human form until the age of eighteen. At the age of eighteen, a faery must choose between light and dark. Often their choices align with their parents, but this is not always the case.
As you can see, light faeries are human-like in form with wispy dragon-fly wings and a strong connection to the earth around them. Not only can they grow plants with just the sweet song of their voice, their magic relies on the elements of nature such as air bubbles and flames to name a couple. Their magic becomes essential when escaping danger or hiding, as they have the ability to shrink to a tenth of their normal size, and their wings allow them to move quickly.
Dark faeries are quite the opposite. Their figure becomes tall and beastly, their skin an unearthly color and often times terrifying, and their features are no longer human like but ghastly and frightening. Faeries who choose dark tend to become sneaky and sinister, and have a difficult time aligning with the light. They feed off of the emotions of others and surround themselves with the darkest ones, in order to keep their magic capabilities top notch. Glamour is a transformative magic that will turn them into human form for as long as their magic can sustain it, and eventually will turn them back into that large terrifying creature until their magic is at maximum once more.
Faeries have a mortal life span.
They have several weaknesses, both dark and light alike. Not only is iron poisonous to them and exposed to too much could kill them, but the light’s elemental magic and the dark’s glamour magic are sustained by using energy. Once their energy is depleted, they are incredibly vulnerable. These lovely (and rather terrifying) faeries also feed on emotions, on a higher level than humans do. Thus, leaving them with the inability to truly have control over their emotions.
