Shep's Beginning
In Marea, deep in the woods, there were tall trees that men could hardly see the tops of. In these trees lived a group of Fairies, who were known for their mischief. The men of the wood tried to stay clear of them, for fear of being tied upside down twenty feet off the ground, or have their hair removed, or something else just as wicked. It was here that the fairy Shep had been born. He was slender, nearly two feet in height, with jet black hair that stood up everywhere. (He occasionally changed it to different colors just to see other beings gawk at him.) His skin color was white, with bright blue markings decorating most of his body. His dark green wings (shaped like a dragonfly's) were actually some of the largest wings ever seen in the history of the fairies; if you were to ask him, he would tell you that he was quite proud of them. And if you were human, he would give you your own set of wings. Anyone knows however, that humans with the wings of a common house fly, cannot fly. (Of course, the wings would disappear after 24 hours. He used to give humans dragon wings that actually enabled them to fly, but after the incident where the one man lost his wings mid-flight over the ocean, well ... he felt kind of bad about that.) Among his own, he was known for pulling some of the best stunts, and even the fairies told tales of his pranks.
However, he loved to make life miserable for his fellow fairies. They eventually tired of his tricks, for they were quite elaborate and unescapable, so the leader sent him out and told him, "Go and play your jokes on other beings for a few months, so that we may rest and use our time to pull pranks on the men of the nearby village! We tire of trying to elude your traps; you leave us no time to set traps of our own!"
This is how Shep found himself flying along an empty road, with no particular place in mind to go. He figured he would go and play pranks on some of the other magical creatures of the world for a while. He had always wanted to make a dwarf bald, or zap a mermaid into a small lake. Risky, but he was willing to try.
Of course, if he had known of the journey he would undertake, perhaps he would have just stayed in the woods...