Elves
Ranging from three feet to six (90 cm - 180 cm) , elves are a natural-side-born fairy that happens after enough generations are born on the natural side of the veil. They frequently reflect the Court of their ancestors in their appearances, being brightly colored and leaning toward magic that lends itself to their season of origin.
While their magic isn't as strong as it could be, they do still have it. Its nature largely depends on the court they came from, but simpler inherent magics are broad spectrum and it becomes more about how it happens. Teleportation works differently for summer than winter due to the nature of the forces carrying you.
Because I apparently just cannot resist complicating my life, I'm going to detail this one out.
And to make things fun or interesting for myself, and to spare myself the fit I want to throw, all cross-breeding across courts is perfectly viable (within general genetic complication rates expected of organic species) and rather than getting mixes of features of hairs and eyes, you will instead end up with a full blown whatever-court elf just fucking because.
Anagod got to the mixing point of no return very shortly after the elves arrived from the feywild, and there is no using it to track any sort of family history at all, because it only comes straight from either parent. If you're both summer, then baby will be summer. If you're winter and she's fall, then you're getting either winter or fall. If it's twins, same randomness. If it's identical twins, it's still a crapshoot because magic, that's why. They will look exactly the same only one will be bright pink and the other will be bright yellow.
Any species-limited appearances listed under the respective court holds true regardless of genetic input from parents. Faeries only sort of have genes, and magic works weird on them. The Autumn Elves are generally orange and brown and round; the spring are finely-featured with pastel tones; the winter are black and white with blue undertones and generally agreed upon as creepy; and summer are green and gold with deep brown, yellows, and reds.
Facial features look like your parent, regardless of courtly influence.
Due to the natural influences of their heritages, and the magical nature of their ancestral origin, features like tails, horns/antlers, claws, non-human facial qualities, patterns on skin like stripes or curls, and patches of scales or bark can and do regularly occur. These can run in families regardless of court, which can be interesting. Tails running in the family only means that tails run in the family, it doesn't mean you got your mom's fox tail 'cos you're winter court and you get kangaroo rat tail.
Due to being fey, they live about five hundred years, spending the first fifty growing to adulthood and spending the next four hundred aging from what looks like a fresh-faced twenty to an ancient, saggy, hundred years old.
While their magic isn't as strong as it could be, they do still have it. Its nature largely depends on the court they came from, but simpler inherent magics are broad spectrum and it becomes more about how it happens. Teleportation works differently for summer than winter due to the nature of the forces carrying you.
Because I apparently just cannot resist complicating my life, I'm going to detail this one out.
And to make things fun or interesting for myself, and to spare myself the fit I want to throw, all cross-breeding across courts is perfectly viable (within general genetic complication rates expected of organic species) and rather than getting mixes of features of hairs and eyes, you will instead end up with a full blown whatever-court elf just fucking because.
Anagod got to the mixing point of no return very shortly after the elves arrived from the feywild, and there is no using it to track any sort of family history at all, because it only comes straight from either parent. If you're both summer, then baby will be summer. If you're winter and she's fall, then you're getting either winter or fall. If it's twins, same randomness. If it's identical twins, it's still a crapshoot because magic, that's why. They will look exactly the same only one will be bright pink and the other will be bright yellow.
Any species-limited appearances listed under the respective court holds true regardless of genetic input from parents. Faeries only sort of have genes, and magic works weird on them. The Autumn Elves are generally orange and brown and round; the spring are finely-featured with pastel tones; the winter are black and white with blue undertones and generally agreed upon as creepy; and summer are green and gold with deep brown, yellows, and reds.
Facial features look like your parent, regardless of courtly influence.
Due to the natural influences of their heritages, and the magical nature of their ancestral origin, features like tails, horns/antlers, claws, non-human facial qualities, patterns on skin like stripes or curls, and patches of scales or bark can and do regularly occur. These can run in families regardless of court, which can be interesting. Tails running in the family only means that tails run in the family, it doesn't mean you got your mom's fox tail 'cos you're winter court and you get kangaroo rat tail.
Due to being fey, they live about five hundred years, spending the first fifty growing to adulthood and spending the next four hundred aging from what looks like a fresh-faced twenty to an ancient, saggy, hundred years old.
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