Fey

At the dawn of time the fey held court, Seelie near the Positive Plane and Unseelie near the Negative. Immortal beings of fancy, they mingled with one another to explore the possibilities of experience and carve out what would eventually become the Outer Planes that today govern the competing ethics of our Material Plane. Whether true fey have actual physical forms or not is a matter of scholarly debate, but they usually appear as lithe figures of extreme beauty or impossible ugliness and tend to be strongly associated with a particular animal.

Intensely social beings, their byzantine associations led them to create dragons with the elementals and produce elven offspring on the material plane who still tend the gates to their kingdoms there. Since the fall of the Dark Age, their numbers in the Steel Empyrean have been on the decline, but dryads still occupy certain groves of trees and nymphs can be found playing in wild streams and rivers. Their greatest power, however, is exerted through the various religions that channel enormous magic power to a few of their number who are exalted as gods.