Wizards have traditionally fought amongst themselves usually for power in many magical worlds. Here it was done for prestige as well. The Chief Wizard’s position is one of the most ancient and honourable roles and carries a great deal of privileges including being bestowed magical gifts by the fairy monarchs. Wizards have killed for these gifts… The fairies established their dominance over every other magical species many centuries ago by the simple premise of acting more brutally than everyone else. The Queen has no problem with this. Eileen isn’t comfortable with it though she concedes sometimes the fairies did what genuinely did need to be done to prevent something worse happening to the realm.
External Threats...
The Kingdom has faced external threats in its time. At the time of Eileen’s story, this threat has been dormant for over a thousand years. But the realm has faced and fought off all kinds of alien beings wanting to grab the magical resources of the Fairy Kingdom for themselves. External wars are one of the few events which tends to unite the entire Kingdom. Sprites who are usually despised are now considered upstanding members of the community as they fight really well and have a long and fairly good record in coming to the realm’s aid in its hour of need. Naturally once any threats go the sprites resume being, in the general public’s eyes, lazy, ill mannered, fighting brutes, fit for nothing. The sprite communities have got used to this. It is partially deserved and that which isn’t, well they don’t bother fighting over that. It just wastes time.
Sprite Communities...
The sprite communities have also been set up and accused of causing wars, usually by those witches or wizards, always keen for a scapegoat, who came off second best in the scrap and want the fairy royals to take their temper out on someone else. It has never worked though it has done nothing for the sprites either. It doesn’t help that sprites do fight amongst themselves, usually for stupid reasons. Sprites are also looked down for irresponsible attitudes to breeding. Where land has been made barren and they breed like rabbits on Earth, there are many who can foresee a war coming simply due to this.