Sprites have the following basic fey powers:

• Sprites can vanish and become insubstantial by speaking their True Name into a mirror.
• A circle of salt will protect a sprite from supernatural powers for as long as it goes undisturbed.
• Any sprite being may summon a faeriesteed or other size-appropriate beast by whistling three special notes.

Sprites can breathe underwater when they dive into freshwater lakes and rivers. They can fly with their diaphanous wings. They are not purely physical and sometimes become visibly insubstantial if they do not land on the ground frequently enough (about once an hour). In the summer, they can speak to plants and animals.

They can change the colors of tree's leaves by singing to them. If they alter an entire forests' leaves, they will effectively change the climate of the area to summery clement. If they are determined, they can sing for hours and hours to change the color of things made from plant-based materials.

They can turn themselves into a ball of solar flame very briefly under a full moon, if need be. When threatened, sprites can unleash significant powers to protect themselves: blinding light from a bead of dew, instilling intense hot flashes by whispering in their target's ears, intimidating the dishonorable with words of power, blistering the skin by throwing pollen on their target, and drying out the skin by rubbing a petal on the skin.

The bitter rebellions and wars to escape left them divided and broken for many Ages. The end result was a legacy that left them banding together into larger tribes, then later into bigger communities, towns and cities that they could defend. The sprites were nearly wiped out, and for many Ages, went into hiding and were thought extinct save for a handful under the protection of their powerful May Queen, who was loyal to The Queen.

Then, the May Queen politically maneuvered for their independence and built a feudal nation in alliance with the green children, fauns, rakshasas, undines, menehunes, atomies, acalicas, and niskies. Each of these nations swore featly to the May Queen, Mab, and made agreements for protection and tribute.

In the Summer Court, the sprites became the ruling class, but only the larger sprites. Smaller ones remained truer to their tribal roots and live out in the fields and by rivers. The ruling class, however, makes up most of the sprite culture at this time. Most sprites are nobles or mystics, and the rest are servants, peasants, or warriors. In the Summer Court, sprite children are raised by their families among the servants, peasants, mystics, and warriors. Nobles have their servants teach them and raise them. All children are then sent to a school at the age of 14 to be taught history, science, math, and reading. They learn for three years. Mystics then go on to the special schools for mystics. Nobles go on to be trained by other nobles in the arts of politics and diplomacy. Warriors go on to be trained as warriors. And peasants and servants go to work. Those who fail to become mystics in their special schools usually become nobles, though some become warriors. Sometimes mystics recruit from the lower classes as well.

Warriors fall into several categories once their training is complete: the Mayguard, who are the most elite and protect the May Queen; the knights, who may one day become landowners and become nobles; the soldiers, recruited from the peasant and servant classes; the constabulary, who serve in the towns and cities and come from the lower classes; and the Summerguard, the bulk of the warrior class who come from the warrior class and lead the military.

Sprites maintain these classes out of the belief that anything else will expose them to the cruelties of the other Courts once more.