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Where did Pixies spend the 5th age?

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So when the mana went away at the end of the 4th age, what did those creatures do that needed mana to survive, specifically the Pixies?

a) Leave this world for another metaplane? I don't think pixies are from a different plane, are they?
b) Find some mana hot-spots, and just tried to make it through the dry season. Even though their magic was very diminished, it was maybe still enough to repel the foolish humans wandering into their lairs? Which could make them the likely source of all the fairy folklore.
c) They're like insects, most/all of them died off at the end of the 4th age, but their eggs (or whatever) survived, and when the mana returned they hatched?
d) They hibernated somewhere?
e) They survived the 5th age as beautiful butterflies, and when the mana returned the awakened again?

Is there any answer about this somewhere?
Also would some or all pixies remember the 4th age, or were they all born after the Awakening?

dragrubis:
Centaurs came back from horses,  Pixies may came back from giant fireflies or what you want

lokii:
If I'm not mistaken Run Faster has Pixies as fae, which is a change from 4th Edition. As fae a metaplanar origin would be likely.

If Pixies are Windlings, they have a lifespan of 170 years according to Earthdawn sources. So Fourth Age Pixies/Windlings would be dead. Unless—putting the two conjectures together—surviving on a metaplane changes something about either the flow of time you experience or ageing itself.

Rosa:
Or they, you know have sex and have children and so perpetuate their species  :)

They have never said it, but there's hardly any doubt that SR Pixies = ED Windlings, there's just too many similarities. Where have they been during the 5th World? Yes it seems very likely that they have been on the metaplanes, but at the same time they are different from other  faeries in a way that is similar to Obsidimen. I dunno if you could call them Half-spirits collectively, but both species seems to spend low mana periods elsewhere and in high mana periods they incarnate for lack of a better term for a certain amount of time, not materialize, but incarnate, Pixies maybe even moreso than Obsidimen since Pixies/Windlings have sexes, families, children and all that. Also both races only seem to be able to "keep" their incarnation for a certain amount of time, after their "lifespan" Pixies fade and Obsidimen become one with the liferock Again.

lokii:

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There is a difference though, Windlings don't. But as I said I don't think the books before Run Faster ascribed this fae property to pixies.

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