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The Miscellaneous Castes of the Fae Courts.

The Donumauctor are members of the Crafting Caste of the Creation Court. These feminine fairies are the most shapely of the fae, with long tails, a fluffy tip, and a plumed fur tip. They have clawed feet and hands, too-small wings, and antlers often decorated with shiny or painted baubles. They are expert craftsfae able to shape wood, metal, stone, and glass with supernatural ease. Their hands are immune to the burn of iron, allowing them to work it. While they excel in all crafts, they have a strong drive to make toys, jewelry, and baubles to entertain and decorate themselves.

The Plasmator are members of the Crafting Caste of the Creation Court. These feminine faes are well-built humanoids with long hair-like gold silk threads. They sport a rack of spikey wooden antlers that they can control, sending forth deadly wood stakes. They are expert carpenters who can shape wood like clay by shaping it with their hands. They are known for their bright red clothing lined with the whitest of Lagomalum fur and are expert hunters when the fancy catches them.

The Halitus are members of the Crafting Caste of the Creation Court. These androgynous fae have marble skin and wear layers of beautiful clothing. They are masters of sewing, perfumes, food preservation, cooking, and pottery.

The Farshaper are members of the Crafting Caste of the Creation Court. These fae are statuesque beings and appear to be made of broken porcelain. An assortment of arms float around a barely humanoid form. A masklike face shaped with isometric features hangs above it. The Farshapers are terrifying beings in Fairy able to manipulate, bend, and shape metal with their bare hands, making beautiful protection or crushing those who thought they were safe. They are architects, sculptors, and smiths able to spin molten metal like a spider spins silk. They have no protection against Iron.

The Vita Dantis are members of the Healer Caste of the Life Court. These feminine fae wear skintight suits of bright greens, blues, and purples. They have colorful butterfly wings, waist cloaks, and headdresses of peacock feathers. They channel the Dance, moving in intricate motions of colorful streaks, channeling the motion into healing caresses, singing into their ally’s resolve and courage.

The Vita Nova are members of the Healer Caste of the Life Court. These feminine fae are one of the few fairies that can weaponize their beauty as mortals looking upon them are diminished and even enthralled. They sport wings of gold and stained glass and have long hair of cloth of gold thread. They are masters of glamour, soothe aches, numb pains, and grant youth, increasing their power by helping people find love or at least lust.

The Woadwoe are members of the Omen Caste of the Death Court. These feminine fae are deathly pale with massive moth wings covered in bright red eyes. They have long tails with bladed tips and small branch-like antlers rising from the top of their heads. They are seen as ill omens if seen before battles. They are potent casters of ruinous magic, taking the mortal omens of war into themselves and placing them in the mortal world.

The Runewoe are members of the Omen Caste of the Death Court. Smaller cousins of the Woadwoe have no wings, and their small tails end in small puffballs of a tip. Instead of antlers, they have singular curved horns that look like half-crescents. They take in the mortal omens of life and place them where they are most needed.

The Malikit are members of the Omen Caste of the Death Court. These fae are humanoid and feline in equal parts. They are all black except for a laurel-like crown of white fur around their shoulders and bright red eyes. They can become black cats and shadowy silhouettes; they are creatures of childhood fears that grow up with mortals and become true terrors. They are the superstitions of children and the games used to make sense of the horrors of the adult world.

The Talkof are members of the Omen Caste of the Death Court. These fae are large masculine hulks, too thin and too tall. Faceless with horns half as tall as them and long arms reaching past their knees. They are adult fears; they are adult problems. They make omens of home problems such as drought, famine, infidelity, and loss.

The Mortalarua are members of the Chaos Court and fill many roles across several castes. These bipedal animals make up much of the Chaos Court. The Mortalarua are craftsmen, warriors, hunters, and peasants, from enormous elephants to meager mice. The smaller the species, the more powerful, with the rodents being the strongest. However, this trend is broken slightly as the Squirrels are the right hand of the Lagomalum. Mortalarua can include flightless birds and crocodiles.

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