Tooth Fairies

Quick, tiny, and elusive, few mortals have seen these nocturnal fey, though many left them offerings as children. In appearance the tooth fairies resemble more insectoid pixies, with mandibles instead of a humanoid mouth, an extra pair of arms coming from their abdomen, and a chitinous exoskeleton that covers parts of their body.

Dental Diet Many mortals have heard tales of these creatures, and children are often told to leave their lost teeth under the pillow for them. The tooth fairies gladly accept these offerings and leave small trinkets or a few coins in their place, both because they believe it is important to trade fairly and because that way the child will keep giving them teeth. The tooth fairies take these teeth back to a safe space where they use their manibles to break them apart into smaller shards, which are then either eaten or ground up to be used as a spellcasting component. A single tooth can keep a tooth fairy well-fed for over a month and they can easily go several months without another meal.

Friends to Children Shy and secretive, tooth fairies always take great care to avoid being seen by adults unless they need to. They normally only make themselves visible to small children, playing and talking with them when no one else is watching and sometimes bringing them pretty baubles or appearing in the night to comfort children frightened of the dark. These friendships rarely last into the mortal's adulthood.

Bone Fairies

Tooth fairies who cannot find food or who simply do not find teeth to be a filling meal may be driven to seek out an alternative food source and begin scavenging bones from dead animals they find in the wilderness. They soon find the bones of beasts no longer satisfying and start sneaking into cemeteries and tombs to feast on the dead interred there. Their new diet quickly causes them to grow in strength, ferocity, and hunger until they have become vicious monsters that only vaguely resemble their original appearance. Their chitin grows and thickens, becoming a steel-hard armor that covers their entire body, they grow razor-sharp claws to tear open their prey, and their personality, once shy and benevolent, has become violent and sadistic.

Carrion Eaters Though a fully-developed bone fairy prefers to eat bones and marrow from freshly-killed prey, they'll rarely say no to an easy meal and often make temporary lairs in or near tombs, burial grounds, or battlefields. Many others stealthily follow orc warbands, more dangerous monsters, or even adventuring parties so as to feast upon the trail of corpses they leave behind.

Monsters Under the Bed Bone fairies are as interested in children as they were when they were tooth fairies, but their friendly fascination has become a sadistic obsession. They often appear to children at night, terrorizing them while never leaving any solid evidence or letting themselves be seen by adults, causing the child's stories of a horrible monster to be dismissed as nightmares or an overactive imagination. After tormenting a child in this way for weeks or even months the bone fairy gets bored and kills the child, leaving the eviscerated, boneless corpse to be found by the child's parents in the morning.