IWUAaDNW: Growth 3.5

Disregarding the increasingly cruel-looking Dervish forms—which apparently traded their ability to use natural spells in favor of becoming pint-sized flying blenders—I turned back to the Luminous Pixie.

The picture looked a bit like my pixie, in that it was vaguely insectoid with two arms and two legs. Instead of having four veiny wasp wings, however, the Luminous pixie had two ornate wings like a butterfly, which were covered by colorful fractal patterns. The light it emitted was also yellow-white to my pixie's pale teal.

What had caught my attention was the way to book described its abilities as 'minor illusions'.

"Luminous Pixies are usually considered minor nuisances at best, having traded the dangerous stun bolt of the Lesser Pixie for a considerably less powerful ability to incite extremely short-term illusions and hallucinations to unwary adventurers. These illusions vary from highly detailed moving illusions of attacking creatures, to more subtle tricks, but their short duration means they are generally used to distract adventurers while more dangerous creatures provide the actual threat. Killing them is generally not worth the effort, unless their wings are the goal of the quest."