Fairy

Fairies are minor enemies in Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove and Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon. They appear as furry gray flying creatures with two tiny legs, wings, and rabbit-like ears. They can be found in the Explodatorium, Stranded Ship, Clockwork Tower, and Tower of Fate: Entrance. They are Fairies from the Fairy Glade who have gone feral.^[1]

They have an even fiercer cousin, known as a Flarey.

Behavior and Tactics[]

Treasure Trove[]

In Treasure Trove, Fairies steadily float slowly and directly towards their target, even through walls. Once in range, they swoop down with a fast biting attack. They have only 1 hit point and deal 1 damage point. Upon death, they drop a 5 gold worth blue gem and a jar.

Fairies can quickly chain attacks on their target or bump the target into a pit if not dealt with swiftly. They are best dealt with with a ranged attack or by luring them in range of main weapons.

Pocket Dungeon[]

In Pocket Dungeon, Fairies appear in the Clockwork Tower and Scholar's Sanctum. They possess 4 hit points and deal 2 damage points. When the player only has two or less hit points left, Fairies get excited and deal 3 damage points instead of 2.

Joustus Card[]

The Fairy card has a Double Arrow facing left.

Trivia[]

Fairies heavily resemble Teeny Sanguinis from the Dragon Quest series.
Fairies' attack behavior and movement patterns heavily reference Scarfies from the Kirby franchise.
Custom Knight can equip a friendly baby Fairy as a Special FX. However, it retains the same aggressive nature as the adult variant and will try to eat Custom Knight's corpse if it thinks he is dead.
The model of Fairies is named "Encroacher" in the game's files.
- As a nod to this, there is a Fairy of the Fairy called the "Fairy of Encroachment" in the Fairy Glade.
- Furthermore the Plague Knight amiibo exclusive challenge "Plague Invaders" has a description that reads "Use the Bullet Burst to defeat the encroaching Flareys!"
While not used as an enemy in Showdown and Dig, thanks to the eggs used to spawn them to player's advantage, Fairy is one of the two enemies to appear in all 7 games. It shares this feat with Beetos.
Despite their different aspect from the peaceful fairies found in the Fairy Glade and summoned by Madam Meeber, the Memento Fairy Nest implies that the Fairy enemies also originate from the Fairy Glade.