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Reference sheet for the Wild Puck.

+ More info and images can be seen on his character page, here! +

Puck is one of the most  powerful sidhes, as well as one of the very rare true Immortals. He also  appears in William Shakespeare's famous work "A Midsummer Night's Dream", as well as in countless oral and written accounts of British and Norse mythology.

The term Puck derives from the Old English pucel 'evil spirit', a loan from the Welsh pwca which indicated, precisely, a spirit of the woods, with a changeable  and deceptive appearance. Often Puck (or "the Puck", as he likes to  introduce himself) appears as a prankster, a harmless trickster, who  hides, behind the mask of an adorable pixie, grandiose powers whose use  is strictly bound to the rules of the faes.

In his true form, the  "Wild Puck", his powers appear to be completely unchained by the rules  of faes, making this creature among the most dangerous in the magic  world.

Cycle of Incarnations

Puck's life is marked by a  cycle of stages and re-incarnations, fluid, but with three  distinguishable forms and moments: domestic Puck, rural Puck and wild  Puck. The wild Puck, too powerful and dangerous, is killed (in his last  wild incarnation, Alberico/Oberon destroyed him) and restored to his  domestic version through the application of a series of seals.  Over time (several decades may pass), the magical seals wear
out and  Puck recovers his strength, gradually moving on to his next stage, the  rural Puck, in which he resembles a faun or a satyr in appearance and  abilities. Finally, after hundreds of years, Puck returns to have  complete control over his powers and it is necessary to destroy him  again.. As a true immortal, Puck does not actually die, but loses most  of his powers and his ability to use them freely, becoming bound to  sidhe magic. So after the kill, the weak Puck becomes "domestic" and the  cycle begins again.

Look

The  Puck, in its wild version, is very different from the traditional  little pixie, and although it does not reach excessive dimensions, he's  still the biggest of all pixies, with a height of 1.80 m from the hooves  to the tip of the head, which reach 2.14 m if the horns are also  counted. Having changed the "domestic" and "rural" livery, the wild  version almost completely loses the white in favor of ginger and rust.

Bloodthirsty

If the domestic Puck  is a harmless prankster, who thinks only of having fun by making jokes  and mocking people, the wild Puck is instead a much more cruel creature;  certainly remains a fan of pranks and a trickster, but the consequences  of these pranks can be much more dangerous and bloody. Puck, like many  sidhe, loves the taste of blood.


(With extra art by Copiani!)

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