I'm fine, Rag - just pointing out something that really should not have needed to be reiterated:
There are many different lores and mythos of creatures called pixies, and they are often strikingly different. When you are acting as the custodian of a body of lore that does not belong to you, you have a duty to represent it as it describes itself - that is, not to erase it and replace it with the lore of some other completely different creature from a different source.
We are not talking about the pictsies of the Discworld, who are foul-mouthed brawlers prone to stealing cows wholesale when the mood strikes them.
We are not talking about the pixies of the Artemis Fowl series of novels who stand close to a metre tall and are generally better at modern tech science than you.
We are not talking about James Barry's pixies who can only feel one emotion at a time and are powered by clapping and the laughter of children.
We are not talking about Cornish pixies, who disguise themselves in rags and attempt to lure young children away.
We are not talking about modern British pixies, nor Swedish pixies, nor Romanian pixies, nor even the older Celtic pixies.
We also are not talking about Disney pixies who mostly concern themselves with fashion and are made to appeal as marketable to young girls, nor Dreamworks pixies, nor Pixar pixies, all of whom are as varied as the individual movies in which a variant may show up.
We are talking about pixies of the Forgotten Realms, who are their own species of creature, in their own world space and setting, with their own lore and descriptions...
...They like to spy on other creatures and can barely contain their excitement around them. The urge to introduce themselves and strike up a friendship is almost overwhelming; only a pixie’s fear of being captured or attacked stays its hand. Those who wander through a pixie’s glade might never see the creatures, yet hear the occasional giggle, gasp, or sigh.
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Tiny Tricksters. While the arrival of visitors piques their curiosity, pixies are too shy to reveal themselves at first. They study the visitors from afar to gauge their temperament or play harmless tricks on them to measure their reactions. For example, pixies might tie a dwarf’s boots together, create illusions of strange creatures or treasures, or use dancing lights to lead interlopers astray. If the visitors respond with hostility, the pixies give them a wide berth. If the visitors are good natured, the pixies are likely to be emboldened and more friendly. The fey might even emerge and offer to guide their “guests” along a safe route or invite them to a tiny yet satisfying feast prepared in their honour.
Opposed to Violence. Unlike their fey cousins, the sprites, pixies abhor weapons and would sooner flee than get into a physical altercation with any enemy.
It is intrinsic to their nature to be friendly and curious; it is intrinsic to their nature to find violence and malice abhorrent; the tricks they play are, by stated definition, harmless. So, to have a lore check tell you that this creature might be malicious is abjectly contra to the very essence of what it is. If a pixie is not like this - say they have been corrupted and twisted in some way, which is entirely possible given the circumstance - then
that is what a successful check should reveal.
The Larian crew live in a country and culture where pixies exist and, as Rag points out, within that mythos, they're often arseholes. The Larian crew have been either lazy, or simply lacking in care and respect enough to do anything more than assume that their local understanding of their own pixies must surely be correct and universal, or else that it doesn't matter enough to bother about showing basic respect to other bodies of mythos or lore.
For the duration of the game that they are making, Larian are the custodians of the realms lore that it involves; they have a duty to do properly by that - that means not making random assumptions about the creatures contained in it, or treating such creatures as generic cultural representations of themselves, and disregarding the actual relevant lore as it applies to these specific creatures in this specific world space. It's a degree of basic professionalism that Larian have often made it seem as though they are incapable of, time and time again.
They should have stuck to their own personal IPs - They are not mature enough, or respectful of others enough, to be trusted with someone else's.
