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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 7151597" data-attributes="member: 58172">Shakespeare, when you place various texts side by side, supplies a comprehensive amount of information about the British concept of an Elf, properly called a Fairy, specifically around London. Because of the influence of the British Empire and literature, this Shakespearean view of Fairy Folk influences the views about nature spirits across many cultures, from Iceland to India, but is peculiar to Southern England in origin. This English Fairy is a nature spirit that appears as a human youth from newborn to young adult, who personifies the mysterious forces of the fertility of plants and animals, and by extension health, sexuality, success, and fate. With childlike enthusiasm, they reward compassion and diligence with finding a spouse and prosperity. They punish cruelty and laziness by pain-inducing mischief. They dont like ‘mean’ people. Generally, they have a playful sense of humor, and love goodhearted mischief. The Hobgoblin (etymologically ‘Robin’ the ‘Goblin’) is a nickname for Puck (cognate Norse Puki, English Boogey·man), aka ‘Robin Goodfellow’, who is the royal jester of the Fairy Court of King Oberon (etymologically Norse Alfr-Rikr ‘Elf Ruler’, via German Albrecht, French Auberon a King of the Realm of the Faie). Altho Shakespeare reports Puck to be good, he is called a ‘Puck’ and ‘Goblin’ because of his endless humorous mischief. The Fairy are spirits. Similar to the Renaissance question, ‘How many angels can dance on the head of a pin’, the Fairy as spirits are able to reduce their human size to tiny sizes. The smaller they become, the more spiritually refined they are, thus the more powerful they are. Queen Titania who is the Queen of her own Fairy Court, is able to shrink down to the size of the gem on an insignia ring, about the size of a thumbnail. But normally the Fairies are fully human sized children. She herself appears as young human child, perhaps 5 years old. These Fairy are specifically land spirits, so much so, they are unable to inhabit sea water. On the beach, they playfully run back forth with the edge of the waves of the tide, precisely because they personify the land to its very edge but not the sea water. They can inhabit freshwater streams however, that flow on land. Wherever they are, plant life flourishes.The Fairy are strictly nocturnal. They inhabit the spirit realm and only manifest in the material world while the sun is down, albeit they enjoy the light of dusk and dawn during the twilights, as well as the light of the moon. Shakespeare describes them as wearing four colors: White, Green, Gray, and Black. It is unclear whether this refers to different kinds of Fairies, or different ranks. Queen Titanya wears solid luminous white. The white is the luminous moonlight, the green is plantlife, the gray is the shadows of night, and the black is the fertile topsoil.(In D&D, the White Elf, Green Elf, Gray Elf, and Black Elf, probably derive ultimately from this Shakespeare reference.)Moon Elves• White Fairy ≈ 1e High Elf• Green Fairy ≈ 1e Wood Elf• Gray Fairy ≈ 1e Gray Elf• Black Fairy ≈ 1e Black Elf</blockquote>

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