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= Fairies (historical) = The Fairies are a species of supernatural and magical beings that ruled Earth approximately 2 million years ago, before the planet's invasion by the Progenitors.

The Fairies can be loosely called a race, because their large varieties in forms, abilities, and functions between them. Fairies are traditionally divided into three classes based on their functions, the Alpha Fairies, the Beta Fairies, and the Omega Fairies. What unites all the Fairies were their common heritage as former rulers of Earth, and their supernatural ties to the planet itself.

Due to all the various hardships that the Fairies endured, their numbers have dwindled to the point of near-extinction. All the Fairies that are still on Earth today generally live a very secluded and remote lifestyle. Though they still sometimes meddle in the outside world, their barebones presence led them to be forgotten by the humans. Now, they live on in human memory as gods and mythical beings.

Etymology
The first recorded use of them being referred to as "fairies" came from the renowned 18th-century English insolitologist Sir John Connington, pioneer of the Agency for Unusual Affairs, in his influential 1742 work Fable of the World. In it, he recounts his time in Ireland, where he uncovered a hidden chronicle written in Old Irish about a tribe of mythical kings of Ireland, who ruled the island before the arrival of humans. Connington translated their names from the chronicle as the "fair folk". He believes this to be an earlier allusion to the Tuatha Dé Danann of Irish mythology, as do many experts now.

Historically throughout the world, the Fairies have been known by many names, including the Anunnaki in ancient Mesopotamia, the Titans in ancient Greece, and Jinn in Middle Eastern folklore. In the Akashic Records and the Annals of the Tower, the Fairies are referred to as "magicians" and "demons", and it is stated that names for the Fairies have power, something that have been proven true.

It cannot exactly be known what the Fairies refer to themselves, as the only living member that has voluntarily given information on themselves is The Deer, which uses the term "Children". Although this may be plausible, The Deer was hypothesized to be somewhat of outcast during his time with the Fairy population, something which it have alluded to, and it has a reputation for being mischievous, making its statements uncredible.

In order to further their agenda, human historical records tended to stress the unity of the Fairies and portray them as a monolith, however recent study and contact with the species have a revealed a specialization of the Fairies, represented by the Alpha, Beta, and Omega classes. These terms were coined by Professor Yevgeny Strelkov in his 1976 study on the Fairies, which was eventually adopted officially by the SCP Foundation's Encyclopaedia.

Before the invasion
The origins of the Fairies are unclear. According to the Akashic Records, the Fairies reigned over Earth for 100,000 years, making whatever happened before that unknown. However, according to The Deer, the Fairies originated from the Earth itself, and it also suggested that they are old as the planet, making the species approximately 4 billion years old. This is thought to be unlikely.

Human records have traditionally portrayed the reign of the Fairies as a time of eternal suffering and darkness, however recent finds from the long-extinct Hepu mystery cult has shed some subtleties into the topic. According to the cult's tradition, the "fair ones" were mandated to rule by the Earth spirit itself, to which it held a deep kinship to. They were tasked with ridding the world of corruption and healing the Earth.

Unfortunately, that is the limit to which we can find from the cult. The rest of the sources for this period came from various scattered accounts by the Gigantae, once a slave race of the Fairies, and the Deer itself. During the peak of their reign, the Fairy population numbered around 200,000, a minority of the Earth's population by all accounts. They held all the other species by bondage, forcing them to work for and worship the Fairies. One Gigantae account found preserved in the Akashic Records noted:"'All of the world faced the most terrifying and horrible of tyrannies it has ever seen. They were bound by their souls and bodies to suffer for the benefit and enjoyment of the [untranslatable]. For if they are to disobey, their very existence would be wiped and their forms annihilated. ...many races perished in their entirety.'"It seems that there are other accounts by the other former slave races, but their language is as of now not understood. Another Gigantii account also referred to some of the Fairies as "Princes", which is though to refer to Alpha-class fairies, something which is corroborated by The Deer. The entity alluded to another grouping of Fairies, which is referred to as "Powers", hypothesized to refer to Beta-class fairies. There is no available account of the Omega-class, though this is possibly because The Deer is a member of that class.

The relationship between the three classes of Fairies before the invasion is vague and unclear, as they are classified primarily by their forms. According to Yevgeny Strelkov, the subraces of the Fairies pre-invasion have the following roles:


 * Alpha fairies have the closest relation to the Earth Spirit, and is possibly the race of the Fairies to emerge. They are the "leaders" of the Fairy empire, and the ones that the slave races are commanded to worship.