Digital Fairies

So after asking Karbo if it was ok, I wanted to revisit an idea that was brought up earlier based on one of his pictures, the Digital Fairies. I know someone already made an attempt of it in the past, but hell I thought the picture was a really cool idea and I wanted to give it a shot. Definitely open to suggestions. So....

Digital Fairies

Once a mage by the name of Barthalamew Finnstein had a great dream to connect technology and dimensional magic in an attempt to link the city of Negav to information hubs in other dimensions. Needing a great source of power and not wanting to gain the attention of the Magiocrats, Finnstein hid the power generator for his experiment outside the walls of Negav, running a secret power line into his home. Once everything was in place and set up properly, Finnstein activated his device and successfully linked up to information hubs across multiple dimensions. The Maginet had been successfully created.

His success was short lived however, as the power generator outside the city attracted a great deal of storm sprites, who quickly used the power line to enter the city. Finnstein was the first victim of the storm sprite invasion, followed by many inhabitants of that section of the city. The Magiocrats quickly responded, sending an attack squad to both that section of the city and another to the power generator to cut off any chance of additional storm sprites coming through. Cornered, the storm sprites retreated back through Finnstein’s computer, exiting just before the other Magiocrat attack squad arrived. The magical power of so many sprites traveling sent off a magical shock wave frying all electronics in Finnstein's house, including the computer linked to the Maginet. This magical shock wave continued through the dimensional link and stemmed throughout the networks connected, affecting some programs on the networks in a strange way. These programs, websites, and even viruses became "alive" and even took on the form of the source of the magical effect, fairies.

These “Digital Fairies” can cross networks across dimensions, but cannot venture very far away from the network itself. Thus they cannot leave more than 10 yards from the computer they exit from. If the network connection is cut, the fairy is forcefully pulled back into the network. They are quite fond of popping out of unsuspecting victims computers, shrinking and eating them, and retreating back into the network. Some of these digital fairies even like to use the computers of their victims for a while, either to chat with others, play games, or look for their next meal…

Digital fairies usually have traits associated with what kind of program they were before. Benign digital fairies were born from regular programs, and tend to be nice and well mannered, as well as glow a soothing color, like blue or green. Malicious digital fairies were born from viruses or malware, tend to be evil and untrustworthy, and have a opposite colors such as red or black. This isn't a hard and fast rule however, and some programs seem to not have an alignment at all, as there have been reports of a pink digital fairies that were born from porn websites that insist on trying to have sex with everything.

Although not confirmed, it is rumored that two digital fairies can put this same magical spark into another program, bringing it to life as well.

I don't think Storm sprites can actually enter networks. I see them as more akin to travelling down powerlines since that's where all the electricity travels. So I can't see this working personally.

Sean is correct. If a storm sprite were to enter a computer they would just fry the delicate circuits.

It's even more jarring if it's a wireless network since the sprites would then be able to travel through radio waves, and I don't think they can do this and survive it.

That's sort of the point, the fairies were using the power lines to enter and exit but the line was cut mid transition, thus the fairies became "lost" and became something else entirely. Remember they don't turn into electricity, but pure magical energy (according to the wiki) thus the link between the computer, the maginet, and the powerline pulled them into the maginet when the power plug was jerked so to speak.

Can't blame me fr trying though.

Grave wrote:

That's sort of the point, the fairies were using the power lines to enter and exit but the line was cut mid transition, thus the fairies became "lost" and became something else entirely. Remember they don't turn into electricity, but pure magical energy (according to the wiki) thus the link between the computer, the maginet, and the powerline pulled them into the maginet when the power plug was jerked so to speak.

Can't blame me for trying though.

Yeah, the thing is you hand-waved it. If you could explain it properly then it would be acceptable.

Ok I gotta ask, hand-waved? What do you mean?

I thought storm sprites could enter computers anyway? Jesus, and here I thought I knew everything.

Grave wrote:

Ok I gotta ask, hand-waved? What do you mean?

read this page you will have an idea

If not being able to fully explain something is hand waving, well...

"In the center of the city, on the top of a large marble tower, stands a large purple crystal, roughly 20 feet tall, known as the Isolon Eye. It was built by the Ps'isol magiocrats who currently rule the city, as a testimony to their formidable power. Very few understand how it works, but what matters is that it seems to keep many gargantuan monsters at bay, through some unknown magic."


It wouldn't be the first time it happened.

But I will try to better develop the idea. Explaining dimensional magic is going to be quite a feat, anyone wanna give me a hand?

Yeah, that's why I always buy surge protector outlets for my PC. Incase a storm sprite or digital fairy ever went into it, I can at least minimize the damage they do via overcharging the wires.

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through some unknown magic.

That is the handwave. It basically translates to not bothering to explain anything.

I would personally see, "something goes wrong while trying to make this magic internet, and the result were digital fairies" as more believable.

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I thought storm sprites could enter computers anyway? Jesus, and here I thought I knew everything.

They can, but the "turn into magical energy thing" only allows them to enter and travel through electrical circuits. So they wouldn't be in an Internat program or file, they'd just be hidden inside the desktop's hardware at best.

Sean Okotami wrote:

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through some unknown magic.

That is the handwave. It basically translates to not bothering to explain anything.

I would personally see, "something goes wrong while trying to make this magic internet, and the result were digital fairies" as more believable.

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I thought storm sprites could enter computers anyway? Jesus, and here I thought I knew everything.

They can, but the "turn into magical energy thing" only allows them to enter and travel through electrical circuits. So they wouldn't be in an Internat program or file, they'd just be hidden inside the desktop's hardware at best.

Wonder if he realizes that that statement was directly from the wiki on the Negav page Isolon Eye description and not from the mini-story above XD. My point is in Felarya, when magic is involved, I think handwaving isn't always so bad, leaves some of the magic in magic.

What I mean is that while they turn into pure magic energy, keep in mind that they are hybrids with Lightning Elementals. So it would make more sense that they'd choose electrical circuits since they are made of electricity than magic. The thing is that the Isolon Eye is only just there. If there was an entry for the Isolon Eye alone, then yes, the "unknown magic" clause wouldn't be well accepted. But for the Digital Fairies, what you put was an origin story. The Unknown Phenomenon comes out as an excuse not to put an explanation as to what happened. It basically asks the readers to just believe it without knowing what it does or how it happened.

Digital fairies - the ultimate computer virus!

I like this idea. The thought of some poor fairy battling her way through firewalls and anti-virus programs only to discover her prey is slightly out of reach is hilarious. It just needs a little revising on their origins.

Sean Okotami wrote:

What I mean is that while they turn into pure magic energy, keep in mind that they are hybrids with Lightning Elementals. So it would make more sense that they'd choose electrical circuits since they are made of electricity than magic. The thing is that the Isolon Eye is only just there. If there was an entry for the Isolon Eye alone, then yes, the "unknown magic" clause wouldn't be well accepted. But for the Digital Fairies, what you put was an origin story. The Unknown Phenomenon comes out as an excuse not to put an explanation as to what happened. It basically asks the readers to just believe it without knowing what it does or how it happened.

You give me a better idea.... story revision time soon.

EdgedWeapon wrote:

Digital fairies - the ultimate computer virus!

I like this idea. The thought of some poor fairy battling her way through firewalls and anti-virus programs only to discover her prey is slightly out of reach is hilarious. It just needs a little revising on their origins.

Well yeah that's the thing. Storm sprites turn into magic which can travel though power lines and circuits. As I said earlier, it'll just fry computer circuits because they're not made to deal with that kind of power.
The translation from that into actual digital code is the hard thing to explain. Very hard.
Also, unless a male was with them, goodbye digital fairy race.
The thing with his is that digital fairies would be very limited. There aren't that many computers in Felarya. The ones that are there will either be in Negav, under the effects of the Isolon Eye or in military bases where they will have the appropriate physical shielding and high level digital security.

Wait - idea. What if digital fairies were originally a computer program that was mutated and changed by the magic of Felarya? Like a fairy-vore porn program that gained sentience because it became so widely used or something?

EdgedWeapon wrote:

Wait - idea. What if digital fairies were originally a computer program that was mutated and changed by the magic of Felarya? Like a fairy-vore porn program that gained sentience because it became so widely used or something?

That actually sounds more plausible in a fantasy sense.

EdgedWeapon wrote:

Wait - idea. What if digital fairies were originally a computer program that was mutated and changed by the magic of Felarya? Like a fairy-vore porn program that gained sentience because it became so widely used or something?

I was thinking something similar because they are not biological or spiritual origins contrary to the other fairies.

EdgedWeapon wrote:

Wait - idea. What if digital fairies were originally a computer program that was mutated and changed by the magic of Felarya? Like a fairy-vore porn program that gained sentience because it became so widely used or something?

Lol, that's sort of what I was thinking, I was thinking maybe instead of the storm sprites becoming digital fairies, their magical residual effect of the fairies travel corrupted some of the programs on the internet, thus making the programs take on the form of fairies. I was even thinking to split the digital fairies into benign (well relatively),who were born from regular programs, and malicious digital fairies, which were born from viruses or malware. I could even go as far as to have the personality and traits of each fairy have to deal with what kind of program they originally were.

For instance, a digital fairy that came from say a calculator program would be sort of nerdy, really good at math, and have a "good" orieted color (blue, green, etc).

On the flipside, if say a keylogging popup program became a digital fairy, it would be sneaky, thieving, lying, and be a bad oriented color (black, red, etc.)


Ok I modified the original post, tell me what you think.

that's a funny idea. I can imagine lots of funny personalities based on computer programs, or video games? xP

what about the sims? lol.

What if digital fairies are an entirely computer based, non voracious race? No, wait, that would be craaaaazy.

It seems most likely that a being living in a computer network built by humans would be designed by humans too. I do think though it would be an interesting mix of technology and magic, an important part of Felarya.

Jætte_Troll wrote:

What if digital fairies are an entirely computer based, non voracious race? No, wait, that would be craaaaazy.

It seems most likely that a being living in a computer network built by humans would be designed by humans too. I do think though it would be an interesting mix of technology and magic, an important part of Felarya.

They could eat computer virii and bugs.

Jætte_Troll wrote:

What if digital fairies are an entirely computer based, non voracious race? No, wait, that would be craaaaazy.

It seems most likely that a being living in a computer network built by humans would be designed by humans too. I do think though it would be an interesting mix of technology and magic, an important part of Felarya.

Blasphemer.

Archmage_Bael wrote:

that's a funny idea. I can imagine lots of funny personalities based on computer programs, or video games? xP

what about the sims? lol.

Yea, I can imagine one from a popup window. Really nice acting, but really annoying, fast talking, never stopping to let you talk.

The calculator one would always be giving you the odds of something. "Are you going to eat me?" "That event has a 99.99 percent chance of occurring at this point. Repeating, of course."