Fairies (also known as Fenordree, Ellyllon, The Old People, Fae and Aliens) are a type of supernatural creature, first introduced in the third season of True Blood. Fairies are a species of humanoid creature once native to Earth but who now primarily exist on the dimensional plane of Faery.

Fairies also appear in The Sookie Stackhouse Novels, making their first appearance in the fourth book, Dead to the World.

Season 3Edit

After being drained to the point of death by a starving vampire Bill Compton, Sookie is taken to hospital where her dreams are infiltrated by a large group of fairies, the most prominent of these being Claudine. The fairies appear deeply attractive and enticing to Sookie, portraying stereotypical fairy traits such as a love for nature, pleasure and dancing. The drinks they give Sookie in her dreams "taste like happiness" and they appear to be able to communicate telepathically with Sookie. The fairies all emerge from a pond which seems to be some form of portal into and out of Sookie's dreamscape. As Bill approaches the hospital and Sookie's bed, the fairies grow fearful and ask Sookie to come with them as the vampire will steal her light. Sookie refuses to go with them and so they abandon her dreams. Bill then revives Sookie with his blood.

Due to Sookie and Bill's numerous blood transfusions as a couple, Bill is able to unknowingly enter the fairies' realm. Whilst there, he interacts with Claudine but she immediately runs away from him. Bill catches up but is suddenly enticed by her blood. Claudine uses a form of photokinetic magic to push Bill away from her. Bill later wakes up and tells Sookie that Claudine explained to him that Sookie is part fairy. He tells Sookie that fairies are capable of breeding with humans and are known to abduct humans, likening them to aliens.

Season 4Edit

Sookie is led into Faery by her fairy godmother Claudine. Barry is also there with his male god-mother. They are offered a glowing light fruit which they call lumiere fruits. Sookie quickly deduces something off about the way everyone around her is reacting to the taste. Sookie then sees her deceased grandfather Earl Stackhouse. After Sookie speaks with her grandfather he claims that he's only been in the fairy realm for about a few hours, Sookie assures him he's been gone for almost 20 years. Sookie happens to catch a glimpse of one of the fairies true form (which is almost green and goblin like) and senses things are a very off, which she telepathically communes to Earl. But it seems in the fae realm Telepathic thoughts can be heard by all; suddenly everyone looks at the two. Queen Mab then tells Sookie it's her world that's the trap, that the fae will no longer breed that now it is time to harvest, which the Lumiere fruit seem to do. Queen Mab tries to force Sookie to eat one, causing Sookie go use her Photokinesis, blasting the Queen away. Suddenly the Queen, as well as everyone else and the environment, go from beautiful to shockingly different. All the fairies turn gray and goblin-like and the beautiful gardens and the lovely purple/pink pastel skies turn barren and gray. The beautiful Lumiere Tree- which seemed to be the source of the beauitful illusions and time-loss- becomes nothing more than an ugly, gnarled tree, virturally lifeless.

Sookie and Earl then run away from the crowd of dispersing fairies and Queen Mab along with other fairies begin to chase them, throwing what seems to be explosive photokinetic balls. Suddenly two male fairies grab Sookie and Earl and tell them they can help. One of the male fairies are hit by an energy ball and incinerates to dust instantly. The other male fairy informs his band of renegade fae that he has the humans and to hold Queen Mab and the other incoming fairies. While Earl, Sookie and Claude escape, they eventually reach a cliff that leads into a gaping, seemingly bottomless hole. The fairy informs Sookie and Earl that the hole is in fact a portal back to earth and tells them to jump, but Sookie is wary of jumping. Queen Mab comes and begins to close the portal. Because Earl had the light fruit and Sookie didn't, Earl wouldn't be able to make it. As the portal was getting smaller, Sookie and Earl jump. They are suddenly in the graveyard of Bon Temps. While Sookie is unscathed, Earl is doubled over, decaying. Eventually Earl turns to dust, not before giving Sookie his watch and saying his last goodbyes. Later Sookie discovers she had been gone for 12 and a half months, but it seems that her misadventure had only lasted 15-20 minutes tops.("She's Not There")

The fairy Maurella appears to Andy Bellefleur in the woods outside of Bon Temps. She is highly attracted to Andy. After gaining his trust and even having her light transfer into his hand, the two make love. ("Soul of Fire") The fairies want to breed with humans.

Powers and AbilitiesEdit

• Telepathy: Fairies are able to read the thoughts of any sentient creature that gives off brain waves (which means it excludes vampires). They can receive images or sentences, depending on the person. If they concentrate, they can "turn off" this ability.("Strange Love") If they focus hard enough, they can "enter" another person's mind and penetrate their memories, bringing back recollections of events a person had been forced to forget.("Beyond Here Lies Nothin'")
• Photokinesis (Nature Channeling): Fairies can generate and control large beams of light with their minds, using this ability to attack an enemy or topple large objects. The light varies in colour, from blue to golden. The ability has been described as "nature itself" and can injure humans, the two natured and vampires. It also has been shown to break and reverse magic spells.("Burning Down the House") True fairies can morph the light beams into grenade-resembling round shapes.("She's Not There")
• Shapeshifting: While the true form of a fairy is goblin-like with pale gray skin, pointed ears, long nose, blue-green eyes, long sharp claws and rodent fangs, fairies can disguise themselves as beautiful and attractive humanoids.
• Casting illusions: Able to cast vivid and convincing illusions in order to trick others, as demonstrated with the illusion on the fae world, making it appear more appealing and beautiful.
• Teleportation: Fairies can teleport from their realm to the human world at will. It is also quite possible they can teleport within the human world.
• Oneirokinesis (Dream Infiltration): They are shown to be able to enter peoples dreams and converse with that person. For a vampire, drinking large amounts of fae blood might trigger oneirokinesis.("Night on the Sun") Fairy/human hybrids seem to receive the dreams while they are in a coma.("Hitting the Ground")
• Longevity: Fairies can live much longer than most other creatures, but they are not immortal, implying that they eventually face natural death. They can, however, be injured or drained of their blood to the point of their deaths. Upon dying, a fairy returns to their original appereance and their corpse dissolves into glittering dust.("If You Love Me, Why Am I Dyin'?")
• Oath: When Fairies make an oath or promise the fairy and other person must touch fingers and a photokinetic light with come through the promiser's arm. It is possibly that if the oath is broken the promiser may die.("Soul of Fire")

Fairy blood abilitiesEdit

• Intoxication: Any vampire that drinks fairy blood becomes intoxicated with it, going into a state humans would describe as "drunk". The amount of drunkness displayed by a vampire depends on the amount of fairy blood the vampire drank.
• Attraction: Fairy blood smells very appealing to supernaturals, especially vampires (though two-natured have admitted to it, too). The blood also increases the physical appeal of human/fairy hybrids and their descendants.
• Vampire sunblock: Depending on the amount of blood drank, vampires grow immune to their weakness to sunlight after drinking fairy blood. The effects last shortly, however, and the pureness of the blood is a factor too; after drinking a hybrid's blood, Russell Edgington burned in the sun quite shortly afterwards (though the blood did prevent him from bursting into blue flames like Godric), while Eric Northman spent at least an hour in the sun after completely draining a full-blooded fairy.

It is unknown if fairy blood has any effect on humans, but it is implied in the Sookie Stackhouse novels that Jason Stackhouse's fairy heritage makes him more attractive to females, hence his outrageous sex life.

Eric drunk off of fairy blood

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Image GalleryEdit

Sookie arrives in fairy world

Sookie and Claudine

Barry with his god-father

Sookie and Barry offered Lumiere fruit

Queen Mab

Queen Mab

Sookie attacked in Fairyland

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