Faerie

In my current work, The War of the Worlds and Fairies, fairies cross over from their realm to ours pretty much at will. 

Faerie

Their realm is called Faerie, pronounced FAY-uh-ree.  What surprises me is a lot of contemporary fantasy writers use the word in an archaic sense, where it denotes an individual fairy.  But I’m pretty sure that men like Tolkien and Lewis used Faerie to mean the realm itself. 

Which brings us to the main characteristic about fairies:  Whether they have wings or not, whether they are our size or not, they must be from a different realm.  This realm may be far off geographically, or as in my story, it coexists with ours.  

Here is how Ashley, my main character, describes it (our realm is the Mundane): 

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The Faerie a realm of silver webs and golden pixie dust, the Mundane a realm of steam engines and cold iron.