Witch Racial Traditions, Fey

Liber Mysterium
The Netbook of Witches and Warlocks

By Timothy S. Brannan and The Netbook of Witches and Warlocks Team

The various members of the faerie races are known as the Fey and they have had a long a varied association with witches over the years. This association is not just with the Faerie Tradition, but also with all witches in general. Most often it is believed that the witch’s familiar is a shapeshifted faerie.

Creatures of the fey share many of the same features as elves. Any fey creature (nymphs, dryad, pixie, etc.) that wishes to advance as a witch may do so as an elf above. These creatures include elves as well as the following: atommies, batlings, brownies (and bwbachods and fenoderee), buckwans, centaurs, dame vertes (wind nymphs) dryads, hamadryads (dryads of rowan and willow trees), grigs, leprechauns, (naiads, nereids fresh and salt water nymphs respectively), nixies, nymphs, pixies, rusalkas (water nymphs), satyrs, sirens and sirine, (water nymphs), and sprites. satyrs and their kin who take a level or more of witch are known as “Brags”.

There is also some debate as to whether or not gnomes or goblinoids belong to the faerie race. Fey kuruni and witches tend to be solitaries in every case and generally only can advance 2 to 3 levels (typically) as a witch.