Ever wondered how fairies come to being? They are ageless and yet they have babies, and being half human and insects, do they lay eggs or give birth? Well the answer is simple, fairies are born live into the world and do not hatch from eggs. However, like many insect species, juvenile fairies are born without wings and resemble nothing so much as human children. During this period they devleop, ingesting whatever form of knowledge crosses their path, be it poetry or woodcraft, hunting or gardening. At this point in their lives, the young fairies are extremely restless and show a lack of discrimination when it comes to ingesting knowledge.
However. when they reach a certain age (it differs from fairy to fairy) a strange change begins to overcome them and the fairies now grow a little less restless and steadier. Unlike their younger counterparts, they now begin to specialize in specific skills and areas of knowledge, showing preference for it and often disregarding completely the other skills they may have experimented with as juveniles. They do so for about a month or so and when the moon is full, the young fairies all leave their homes en masse to find a quiete spot, usually an abandoned gully or a hollow tree where they begin to spin silken cocoons on the stems or branches of living plants.
The relationship between these cocoons and the plants are symbiotic. The cocoon, being attached to the plant absorbs nutrients from it and transfer them to the developing fairy within via a flower like structure at the base of the cocoon (not unlike a placenta) while the presence of such a number of fairies in the area often causes a strong boost in the growth of local plant and wildlife.
about six months later, when the moon is full and weather conditions are right, the cocoons split open and the fully-grown fairies emerge. They are ageless now, and immune to diseases and in the cocoon have developed the physical attribute which is most distinctive of their species, their wings. The shape of the fairies' wings and their markings differ from individual to individual, being very much dependant on the type of knowledge the fairy had nourished itself with in its youth, particularly the one it had "chosen" prior to its cocooning stage. The winged fairies then fly back to their village where they will then take up their apprenticeships in the specific fields they have "specialized" in as juveniles. This process is also known as the "Re-Birth" among fairies as it is when they get their wings where they shall be awarded with their True Names.
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