Geancanach
Known as the fireside fairy the geancanach are a form of wilderness sprit, loving the open grasslands and the rolling hills and the wild freedom of spring and summer days. And while they enjoy playing in the snow they do not like to be cold and so well adopt a house and a fireside in the winter time. During the summer months they are typically so far from the villages that on cold nights they opt to rest by campfires. Cattlemen and shepheards who tend their flocks on the plains well often see the Geancanach hiding near their fires.
Geancanach appear almost elven except their eyes are much to large for their small bodies as are their pointed ears. Their large wings act as parachutes slowing their fall and allowing them to hover in the air. Rather then actually flying or walking however the Geancanach blinks from place to place, rapidly moving and flashing along.
Size/Type: Tiny Fey
Hit Dice: 2d6
Initiative:+7
Speed: 48 ft
Armor class: 29 (+8 dex, +6 Blink, +5 Size)
Base Attack/Grapple: +15 (+8 Dex +6 blink)
Attack: Tiny Sword Rapid Strike 1d4
Full Attack: +15, +11, +8, +4, +0 (1d4)
Space Reach: nil
Special Attacks: Spells
Special Qualities: Damage Reduction 15/cold iron, low light vision, Blink, Invisibility,
Saves:
Abilities: Str 2, Dex 26, Con 10, Int 11, Wis 12, Char 13
Skills: Hide+10 Move Silently+10 knowledge games 10 Handle Animal+5 Wilderness Lore+10 Music +10
Feats: (2 total)
Environment: Plains and rolling hills
Organization: Family Units of 3-5 adult couples and 1-3 children per adult couple.
Challenge Rating: 4
Treasure: Double Standard (hidden, never with them)
Alignment: Neutral Good
Advancement: As Level
Geancanach’s rarely engage in combat, preferring to flee rather then confront anyone and with their rapid ability to teleport they are practically impossible to force into a corner. However they have been known to engage in combat to protect their adopted winter homes and when they do this they are fearsome foes indeed. For although they are small their ability to teleport rapidly allows them to teleport with their sword already in their target, in this way they strike an opponent dozens of times a round with their sword before falling back to strike and weaken more with spells.
The Geancanach always enters combat by destroying the eyes of their opponent, they have to gauge where their opponent well be so they gain a reflex check to avoid for each eye to avoid being blinded (dc 15) Each failure causes them to be blind in one eye.
The Geancanach’s then strike rapidly with their swords across the targets body, armor and dexterity are little protection against their rapid movements. Once the opponent appears to be building enough understanding of the attack to fight the Geancanach simply teleports a distance away and Strikes its opponent with spells to annoy and hinder them enough to allow further strikes.
The Geancanach is able to blink as rapidly as a human might step, each blink can take them up to 5 feet, or in can transport them a very short distance.
This is how the make their attacks they blink rapidly around a target so that their sword appears in side the target repeatedly, although tiny the dozens of little stab wounds cause serious damage.
In addition to blinking the Geancanach is able to cast the following spells; at will-light, flare, invisibility, 3 times per day-Cure minor wound, calm animal, speak with animals, once per day they may also cast, entangle, chill metal.
Geancanach’s live in small family units with some 3 to 5 adult couples and another dozen or so children. They are in no way territorial, they however prefer not to be in crowded area’s so well nomadically move around to avoid having too many groups exist in an area.
In the winters when they live in peoples homes they remain hidden most of the time, however the children will often reveal themselves as a joke or simply out of clumsiness and so the stories about them often depict them as much more childlike then they really are.
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