The Seelie:

Despite what the rumors may say, a Seelie is just as dangerous as an Unseelie. They are better at being “civil” and are more likely to engage in conversation rather than immediately running you through with a batch of daisies, but a fey is still a fey. Any fool who doesn’t understand that isn’t fit to be a feyer.

Seelie are fairies of the Spring and Summer, holding domain over air and fire. They are more prone to flights of fancy than their Unseelie counterparts and often amuse themselves with human lives. It is advised that when handling Seelie you bring treatments for burns and be extra careful of any debris that might either be thrown at you with the winds or set ablaze by their fire.

I am the only human alive who has seen what Alfheim looks like, and even I only caught a brief glimpse. An infinite sky, with clouds of fire and a sun that never set. Kites and ships with wings dotting the sky, fairies flittering in every direction like a swarm of locusts, a storm waiting to crash into our world and devour it.

Harpy (Spring/Air):

Harpies are the most common type of violent Seelie. At first glance they are human, but they are easy to identify by the feathers lining their arms, taloned feet, and dark black eyes.

They gather together in nests forming small communities on the borders of human populations, often roosting in dangerous terrain. Scavengers that feast on the unfortunate bad luck of other creatures, their meals the rotting flesh of animals, humans, and other fey.

Most harpies are incapable of speech and pose no threat to feyers outside of their sharp talons and numbers. However, there are some species of harpy that are very dangerous, with limited intelligence and voices that can charm humans and lead them over cliffs and into swamps. Make sure you know the difference between a small common sparrow harpy and the larger more intelligent owl harpy.

Pixie (Spring/Air):

Small and meddlesome Seelies. Most often these air-borne rats can be found in swarms of glittering lights and fairy dust, laughing to themselves at the pain they inflict on others with their “pranks”.

They stand no taller than 6-inches and are covered with glittering fairy dust that will cling and aggravate your feyer blood for weeks after you’ve killed the annoying bugs. They can’t speak and lack any intelligence (worse than a dog from what I’ve seen of the pests), but they chitter to themselves as if they could and are quick to cry and scream.

Bring nets and earplugs when handling a pixie infestation. And remember pixies never hunt alone, be ready for troublesome curses to be thrown your way.

Wolpertinger (Spring/Air):

Horrible hybrid creatures that are nothing more than an invasive species of vermin.

They take the shape of rabbits, with small wings from a finch, and with small deer-like antlers. Some nobles like to tempt fate by keeping them as pets but often change their tune after finding their mouths filled with sharp pointed fangs.

Wolpertingers have a nasty bite, but that is not the only threat they pose to human life, for Wolpertingers are ravenous. Their hunger has led to several widespread famines and they need to be eliminated quickly once a den of the vermin forms, for they multiply at terrifying speeds.

Common iron enforced traps and iron dust should be enough to deal with the pests. Softer fruits tend to be more favored and should be used as bait for traps. But if enough iron dust is on hand it is advised to leave out iron-poisoned fruits that will have the fey rodents killing themselves like a bunch of rats.

Brownie (Summer/fire):

A common type of Seelie pest. They are small humanoids, no bigger than a foot tall, with long flopping ears and a thin layer of fur all over their bodies. They steal clothes to dress themselves in a mimicry of human behavior, often wearing socks and stolen hats.

Brownies are obsessed with humans and often sneak into the unsuspecting homes of farmers and tradesmen, entertaining themselves with the lives of the humans in the chosen house.

Their presence can bring “good fortune” but like any fey deal comes at a steep price. If not “respected” the Brownies will grow cruel and taunting, hiding away important items and even going so far as to inflect harm in your sleep. (Some records of older feyers even suggest the creatures might steal any children in the night replacing them with changelings, I have never encountered such a situation, but I am no ordinary feyer either).

Poisoned offerings are a rather easy solution, but only if the brownie is new to the home (under 3 months) and isn’t in an enraged state. Otherwise, the creature will have already bound itself to the home and the only way to remove it is to destroy the building in which it has possessed.

Unicorn (Summer/Fire):

One of the most famous types of Seelie fey. Reclusive horse-like creatures that dwell in the old and forgotten places of Midgard.

Some foolishly believe they can only be one in existence at a time, but after killing several small herds of the beasts I can assure you that is a fanciful tale of nonsense. (Much like those ridiculous tales of unicorns only being able to be ridden by virgins and being signs of good luck. A unicorn’s appearance is an omen of doom for humans, for their arrival means more fey will soon flood the area).

Their horns possess rather impressive healing abilities, but they are not docile creatures and will attack. And those prized horns become lances that can pierce even the strongest iron plate. Bows and tripwires are a better method of hunting unicorns than a full melee assault.

Wobble (Summer/Fire):

One of the strangest fey I’ve ever encountered. They are small and round, about the size of an apple, with a texture much like that of honey or syrup, though less sticky to the touch. They bounce along the winds and stick themselves temporarily to the sides of carts, trees, and anything else made of wood (after about a week the bond between Wobble and wood will break and it will get carried by the winds once more). Translucent for the most part they are hard to spot, but sometimes their little beady eyes can give them away.

They are mostly harmless, often only scaring passersby with their mournful sounds. But these little balls of barely sentient goo are some of the most dangerous fey in existence. Wobbles rarely meet others of their kind, but as more congregate together, they absorb into each other, causing the acid coating their round bodies to get stronger and stronger until they can dissolve flesh and bone with a light touch.

It is impossible to kill wobbles in a normal fashion, but like all fey they are weak to iron. If found, lock a wobble inside of an iron box. After a month the fey will have dissolved itself into a pile of sticky sloop, dispose of the remains properly.

Royal Fey:

I’ve never had the displeasure of meeting the Seelie Queen, but from firsthand accounts of my fellows who survived the Siege of Black Flames, she is a towering woman of impossible height, with hair of crimson flames and eyes a bule that always reflects the sky. Great yellow wings stained black with the blood of feyers. A hideous face hidden by a veil of stained glass. She sits upon a throne of obsidian, the inside still a roiling flame of lava, and at her feet grows nightshade, vibrant and poisonous. Her full fey form is unknown, but my money is on her being the queen of harpies, her dull-witted temperament evidence enough.

The human children she demanded in tribute after the war have been seen on Midgard at various points in the past. Though their powers seem to still be unsettled and what type of horror they will become we do not know. Reluctantly I must caution you from engaging with them, humanity is not ready for another war with the Seelie and those foolish girls are not a target worth dying to.

--- Excerpt taken from the “The Guide of the Fiendish Fey and How to Kill Them” written by Tristram Blackwall.