Faerie

the First Fairy

According to the Urzan Papyrus, Faerie was a Canite woman living in the settlement of Noch at the beginning of history. Her story is the focus of Hymn 4 of the Papyrus, telling of her unwillingness to go along with the customs of her people. She refused her duty of childbirth and flees traveling the lands of Garden looking for a land be free. But she always encounters men overcome by her beauty that soon try to seduce her. Finally in desperation she climbs Aterleg to escape. At the top of the tree she is transformed, shrinking in size to hide from men and growing wings to fly free. What many readers of the tale would call a Fairy. This is the only written account of her life, if she existed at all.

For the fairy folk she is a very real entity, a goddess. In the fairy lore she is mother to all fairy, with Aterleg their father. Fairy oral traditions tell of her falling in love with Aterleg, climbing his heights to be one with the tree. There she is transformed, as in the Urzan Papyrus hymn. But in their telling, she sacrifices the divine nature of her Daemon body to take into herself Aterleg's seed and create the fairy race from her womb. A very different version of her story than 'the Beauty' desiring to be childless described in Hymn 4 of the Papyrus, of which the fairies at best take as a misunderstand of the truth, at worst an intentional lie to dismiss their people.