Tame Dragons

While most Demon Fae are content to live out their long lives in the wilds, near their estranged kin, some, usually the most powerful, find service in the grand courts of the Elite Elves…

… here they serve as mages…

… they are known as ‘Tame Dragons’…

… this is from an ancient, Elvish saying which, roughly translated, goes; ‘It can be very beneficial to keep a tame dragon, just do not step on her tail’…

… while Elite Elves are incapable of fear, they entertain an extreme respect for these, often, frighteningly powerful, and often inscrutable creatures…

… and, while they always serve honourably, and provide irreplaceable council and skills for their Elvish employers, they always only have one reason for taking such positions… to help their sisters exterminate Demons.

Sprites

Though similar to Golden Fae, sprites are much smaller, usually the size of a human child, though often smaller…

… their wings are also a lot smaller, often no more than vestigial reminders of what they once were, millenia ago… they can still fly, but not very high, and not very far…

… they often have stunning, golden eyes…

… and while sprites are incredibly beautiful, humans can look at their beauty without losing their minds…

… but they are just as inscrutable to the human mind as their grander relatives are, and often mischievous, playing strange games, the rules to which are beyond human ken, so, once again, as with human-golden interactions, human-sprite interactions generally end badly for humans…

… and sprites don’t spend a lot of time worrying about these things, there’s too much fun to be had everywhere they look.

Golden Fae

The Fae have lived on Earth since before humans learned to make tools…

… oldest, and most enigmatic, are the ‘Golden Fae’. The ‘Golden Ones’ are the elite Fae… they it was who were charged by the even more enigmatic ‘Elder Ones’ to survey and secure the Earth for the arrival of all the other Fae…

… these creatures are the cause of all human myth about ‘angels’… even the legend of Icarus is based on a tragedy that really happened, but to an elite Fae, not a human…

… Golden Fae are ethereally beautiful…

… far too beautiful for mortals to behold, which is why humans evolved a mechanism in their minds that usually prevents them from seeing these astonishing beings. When they do see them, the story is always the same… one of madness caused by impossible desire and sheer lack of any kind of affinity between the races. Even when Golden Fae genuinely try to relate to humans, it’s impossible, for they, themselves, cannot help the strength of their affect on them, and things almost always end badly for the human… the few times they don’t end badly, the result is a human who is no longer totally ‘human’…

… humans have lusted after gold since before they even knew how to remove it from the earth… not because of anything intrinsic in the metal, but because of their encounters with these mind-blastingly gorgeous, golden beings.

Transformations

We have been working the transformative concept of Faerie hibernation…

… the idea of little woodland Fae physically melding with their environment as they sleep away the Winter…

… while they exist in this state, the Fae themselves are in an alternate reality… they are living in their dreams…

… the forest they serve has reclaimed the magical stuff that their beautiful little bodies are made of…

… not only do they never age, in this state, they regenerate… when they awake in the Spring, they are actually brand new… ageless souls reborn into a perfect, rebuilt body.

Sleepy Fae

As Autumn fades into Winter, the woodland Fae find themselves a cosy burrow…

… they are giggling, joyous creatures of Spring and Summer, and prefer to sleep the Winter months away…

… woodland Fae are not just ‘from’ the woods, they are ‘of’ the woods…

… as they sleep, the boundary between them and nature dissolves…

… they become part of their winter nests…

… sweet, sleeping creatures of the deep woods, dreaming of Summer butterflies and warm breezes.

Fae Love

Here’s some stunningly gorgeous Fae princesses, because…

… hell, why not!?…

… I have yet to tire of using Mj to create such fabulous eye-candy…

… and, of course, these sweet creatures are, if you follow and are familiar with me/my work, central themes in my various fantasy musings…

… reality needs more exposure to such other-worldly, pure, guileless beings…

… like the ones I populate my fantasy realms with. Of course, if you know me, you’ll also know these cuties, though innocent, can turn you to a pile of embers if you piss them off (: