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While reading up on some fairytales books for my cousins, it occur to me that I have never seen any reference to any creature that looks like or fits the role of Fairy godmothers in any Pathfinder source.
Fairy godmothers are prevalent in many traditional fairy tale stories, from Cinderella and Sleeping beauty to the "good witch" that appears in some version of beauty and the beast.
So are there any Fairy godmothers in the Pathfinder campaign setting?
Nope. They all reside in The First World and come to Golarion only occassionally.
I would see Fairy Godmothers (or Fairy Godfathers) not as a species but individual Fey ladies (and lords) granting their favor to a newly born for their own inscrutable reasons (primary being capriciousness, boredom, acting to spite another Fey and repaying perceived debt to child's parents, grandparents or kin).
Some could be witch Patrons, others would bless the child with unexpected Fey Sorcerer bloodline (or another bloodline for which they could have affinity - Verdant, Shadow, Elemental, even Undead for those Fey that are close to them).
I don't know if any of the Golarion faiths recognizes ritual similar to baptism so the name of this "function" would be probably different ("Feyaunt", "Parent's Friend", "Child's Keeper"). It could be actual ritual recognized amongst higher Fey in which Fey lords and ladies take wards considering the beneficient of such protection theirs.
There is Grandmother Crow - Andoletta, an Empyreal Lord. She watches over children and appears some of the time as an old woman. I think she represents a very similar concept.
Desna, Goddess of Luck, has a thing for butterfly wings. She fits most of the iconography one might think of for a fairy godmother.
There are also norns, fey creatures based on the Norse norns, and if they don't do the fairy godmother shtick occasionally, I'd be rather surprised.
There are also norns, fey creatures based on the Norse norns, and if they don't do the fairy godmother shtick occasionally, I'd be rather surprised.
I thought about them when I looked through bestiary but I found them a bit lacking in this role... Unless you think that bestow curse or geas a decent blessing for a newborn godchild.
There are also norns, fey creatures based on the Norse norns, and if they don't do the fairy godmother shtick occasionally, I'd be rather surprised.I thought about them when I looked through bestiary but I found them a bit lacking in this role... Unless you think that bestow curse or geas a decent blessing for a newborn godchild.
Well, they do take on the role of the original - the Parcae type, goddesses of fate (Fata > Fay > Fairy) who visit the newly born. Fairy godmothers tended to be less "good" and more embodiments of destiny instead, at least before the 18th century.
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There are also norns, fey creatures based on the Norse norns, and if they don't do the fairy godmother shtick occasionally, I'd be rather surprised.I thought about them when I looked through bestiary but I found them a bit lacking in this role... Unless you think that bestow curse or geas a decent blessing for a newborn godchild.
Who said they were for the godchild?
Norn: "You, charming prince, you will meet a girl wearing glass slippers. You will propose to her and marry her, forsaking all others and political realities of royal marriages, and you will see to it that she wants for nothing and lives happily ever after. And consider yourself lucky--I cursed her two stepsisters to have their eyes pecked out by pigeons."
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There are also norns, fey creatures based on the Norse norns, and if they don't do the fairy godmother shtick occasionally, I'd be rather surprised.I thought about them when I looked through bestiary but I found them a bit lacking in this role... Unless you think that bestow curse or geas a decent blessing for a newborn godchild.Who said they were for the godchild?
Norn: "You, charming prince, you will meet a girl wearing glass slippers. You will propose to her and marry her, forsaking all others and political realities of royal marriages, and you will see to it that she wants for nothing and lives happily ever after. And consider yourself lucky--I cursed her two stepsisters to have their eyes pecked out by pigeons."
lol!
So Norns, Desna, Fey lords and Empyreal Lords. It seems there are no specific race/job/creatures/npcs that are Fairy Godmothers. But I think I can work with having one of the above made into a "fairy godmother/father".
Do wish to see more Pathfinder sources.
Who said they were for the godchild?
Norn: "You, charming prince, you will meet a girl wearing glass slippers. You will propose to her and marry her, forsaking all others and political realities of royal marriages, and you will see to it that she wants for nothing and lives happily ever after. And consider yourself lucky--I cursed her two stepsisters to have their eyes pecked out by pigeons."
:D
Now I think of sessions where PCs are sellswords hired by the charming prince to get rid of that damned curse. Taking revenge on that pesky Norn would be a bonus.
Any powerful spellcaster can also serve as a pretty good fairy godparent (or at least a 'good witch' from similar stories). I mean, do you want to try and mess with a 13th level Witch's godchild? I sure don't.
Unless you have uncle that is 18th level Abjurer that focuses on counters, dispels, disruptions, breaking of enchantments and disjunctions.