Questions tagged [fairy]
A fantasy creature—often smaller than a human—that helps to guide or manipulate a character within a fictional universe.
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Old management game in which you could send fairy critters to do work, like chopping down trees and building a house
Roughly in 2005-2008 I was playing a game, but I remember very little about it and I've been looking for it since forever.
What I remember:
Might have been a DVD/online game, it ran on Windows XP ...
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Fairy fantasy book about magic based on a points system?
I remember checking out a book from my library maybe 5-10 years ago. It was a hardcover purple and white book that might have had a pair of wings on the cover. I can’t remember the title. (It might ...
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Book in which a girl finds out she’s a fairy and sees a future where her mother is in a car crash
I’m looking for a book I read back in 2011-2012.
I remember it was a girl that discovered she was a fairy. She had a companion travel dimensions with her. The biggest detail I remember is that she ...
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Book/novel about a girl who lives in the human world and finds out she's a fairy princess whose parents are the king and queen of the fairies' realm
I’ve been trying to search for this novel that I remember reading years ago.
It’s about a girl who lives in the human world. She has a best friend and a boyfriend. She then finds out that she is a ...
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What is the earliest mention of fae being able to literally steal a human's name?
There is a trope circulating on the internet that if a fae (or fairy, elf, etc.) asks for your name, and you give it to them, they can literally take your name from you, leaving you nameless.
How far ...
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Sci-fi/fantasy fae book about a girl whose family place a geas on her, causing her to be unable to escape the town
I'm looking for a book published between 2013 to 2019.
At the beginning of the book, the kids are all sitting around looking for someone they'll fall for, who they'll live with for a year and, if ...
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Book about a girl who found a portal in the woods to a violent and ruthless fairy world
From what I remember this girl found a portal in the woods to a fairy world but the fairies went more along with Grimm tales, they were violent and ruthless. A lot of people are trying to kidnap her ...
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A fairy fantasy, possibly a trilogy - a woman lives in and used to be a tree, a house built with right-angles and iron
I can’t remember many details, but I’d love to read it again. It starts off with a girl going to a small village. There was a tree, a woman lived in it or near it with her daughters. The tree used to ...
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Looking for a Fae book that includes the Cú Sidhe
What I can remember from the book is it was in a modern setting with a portal that took the main character into the fae world through a graffiti mural?
The cú sídhe were involved towards the end in a ...
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A girl discovers she has fairy blood, becomes a fairy then a mermaid
It basically has a girl who comes across fairies and figures out she has fairy blood too. When her parents figure it out, they host a little party for the fairies and their girl who's going to be a ...
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Book about a girl who finds out she was a fairy sent away to keep her safe, and gets sent someone to protect her
I’m pretty sure the cover has the girl in a dress sitting down next to a pool of water. She was born a fairy but brought up as human and eventually finds out she was actually a fairy sent away for her ...
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What's the first example of fairies being divided into Summer and Winter Courts?
Modern fiction about fairies often describes them as being divided into Summer and Winter Courts, sometimes Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter Courts.
A lot of people seem to believe that this is an ...
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Book series in which fairies can become human and return to being fairies if they die
When I was in high school, I found this book series that I started reading. I'm pretty sure it's only 3 books long but high school was 5 years ago. It pops it my head every now and than and now I want ...
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Book set in a time of dragons featuring a boy and his dragon saving their homeland from weird monsters [duplicate]
I have been trying to remember the title of a book I read like a year ago. It is based in a time of dragons and the two main characters in the book is a boy and a dragon. The boy and dragon are ...
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'80s–'90s anime about robot fairies fighting
I've been trying to find the name of an anime from my childhood. From what I can remember, the main plot was basically about like these fairy-like robots fighting in a tournament. Sorry if the ...
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