Obviously all theoretical. Unless…
The following assumes that they’re tiny humanoids with wings and no magic spells/powers.
What would you say the size range is for our tiny winged beings? I often imagine incredibly small, like AA battery size. Then my brain makes like a runaway train, thinking about things like logistics and plausibility (I know they’re fictional magic beings but that’s the runaway train part).
Once I get into that mode, I start imagining them bigger, to an extent. As big as a futbol, usually. All the various children’s stories have them anywhere from palm-sized to as small as bugs.
I guess for imagery sake, imagine you had a roommate that was one, so you have to take their size into account for things like cooking and cleaning. What chores would be exclusive to each person based on size? Would they be able to lift/carry human-size objects?
I would imagine a faerie to be 4–6” tall depending on age and gender. Take the height of a person in imperial measurement and cover feet to inches. And there you go.
I always thought a faerie chick would be a cool friend to have. Like a literally tiny punk grrl in your shirt pocket rocking out to a single AirPod just in your pocket, maybe she’s standing on it doing air guitar or something.
Fairies - 15cm/6" Pixies - 5cm/2"
A fairy can wrap their arms around your wrist and you can carefully fit about three pixies in your mouth
I… I don’t know what to do with this answer, for… Moral implications.
i’m willing to put forth the idea that all pixies are smaller than fairies
i’ll extend. pixies are so small they require some sort of optical magnification for the human eye to behold their visage.
fairies can use their expressions to charm humans they must be large enough to make out their faces
I’ve always imagined that they can change their size because 1) Fairies in British and Irish folklore were said to kidnap children , so they would need to be capable of overpowering them. And 2) Don’t a lot of stories or myths suggest humans, on rare occasions, breeding with Pixies? They can’t be tinkerbell-sized for that.
What chores? Everything that has to do with miniaturization. They’d have sub-millimeter fingers. Repairing that Iphone? The screw that I can’t even fucking see would be huge for them. Or as neurosurgeons, or or or
Biggest productivity win would be teams between humans, fairies and pixies. Each can do tasks according to his strength and size.
But wait. Maybe fairies are around, and they’re all locked up in sweat shops in Ba gladesh or China producing new stuff to flood our markets…
I imagine a pixie to be roughly half the weight of two pixies, and double the height of a child pixie.
Or like 6-10 cm. They could train and ride rats into battle. And they absolutely would.
Fairies? Lower range of human size. Like your aunt who is super short but not like a medical condition. Fairies have a lot of medical conditions, though. Researchers speculate it is caused by inbreeding, but the fairies refuse.
They’d probably be covered in fur to reduce chances of freezing to death, something that small with that much surface area is going to lose heat at an extreme rate, and if they’re humanoid they need to metabolize to maintain body temperature.
I’d expect one to be about 6" tall, but I have yet to see one to confirm this.
