Fír Frjál

The fír frjál, or the free folk, are a type of humanoid creature of fír suthr myth. Said to be the size of children, but very strong and wise, these creatures lived inside of things; rocks, trees, streams and so forth. It should be noted that they did not carve their homes from these things, but rather pass through some sort of barrier to live inside them, as sort of a space between reality and not.

The fír suthr, by law, are never to disturb the fír frjál's homes, and if travel or building is needed in an area thought to belong to these creatures, three weeks of offerings and prayer must be given in order to ask permission of them; permission which has, it is noted in several stories, been denied.

Failure to show proper respect to the fír frjál may result in natural disasters, storms, failed crops, blight, and spooked animals. They are, however, said to be very tolerant of their waygar'i neighbours, rarely disturbing and even, in many stories (such as the tale of The Bear, in which the reason for the laws protectig fír frjál is laid forth) helping them.

The famous spiced mead from Tíortha Briste is said to be their invention, the recipe gifted to the fír suthr in a display of friendship.

No descriptions of these creatures acutally exist save what has already been said of them. This has led some scholars to speculate that they are the same creature as the imp of the eastern unknown, or, at the very least, their mythology has the same source.