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Anonymous File :-(, x)
Very rarely, a male elf will impregnate a human woman (or even more rarely - and much more strangely! - a human man). At nightfall, she will be (largely) consumed by a lesser sort of birthfire, leaving a dragon's egg just as a nymph would. However, male dragons do not lay eggs, die at night, or seem to age at all, and have much more limited digestive capacity. They are born without memories, and without much sense of urgency, and usually die as hatchlings. Moreover, male dragon eggs won't hatch at all unless heated in a fire overnight, the birthfire of a human mother being insufficient for a complete incubation. Humans are not usually so kind to an egg found in the burnt corpse of a loved one, though the birthfire can start a sufficient incubation fire if the mother is in a wooden house or forest, and not all men understand the consequences of a funeral pyre.
The faerie show great variation in physical form, especially in the elf phase, which might show influences of the pixie or dragon phase, such as vestigial wings (insect-like if from the pixie side, or batlike from the draconic), or unusual teeth (shark-like - pixie, wolf-like - dragon). But it is a rare and unfortunate elf that is so far distorted as to be sexually unappealing to humans in the afternoon. They especially have a wide variation of color in skin, eyes, and hair.
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