

The nine Nymphs of Magix ruled the fate of the Magic Dimension after the disappearance of the Great Dragon. While most known fairies are female, male fairies do exist as seen in Winx Club: Magical Adventure. Fairies usually wear colorful clothing to reflect their light magic, but some have been shown to wear dark Gothic clothing, although this is very uncommon. magical darkness arguments have been going on since the game was invented.All fairies are mostly human in appearance with some being composed of pure energy or resembling animals or elves. Up to each DM whether something like an everburning torch would be knocked out by a Darkness I'd be consistent here and say it continues to function but the Darkness trumps whatever light it can generate. Same thing if someone inside a Darkness has a glowing weapon - as far as I'm concerned the weapon still glows all the while but the Darkness prevents anyone from seeing it. However if a Faerie Fire'd creature manages to get out of the Darkness (or if the Darkness somehow moves away) it would then resume glowing, and if the Darkness somehow got dispelled without the Faerie Fire also getting clobbered the glowing would also resume. The Faerie Fire can happily keep going - there's no need to have the Darkness interact with it in any way at all other than to block its light thus I wouldn't need to worry about casting level or any other stuff - but inside the Darkness it effectively Does Nothing as the Darkness trumps it. I'm not thalmin but as my ruling would be exactly the same, here's my rationale: simplicity.

I respectfully disagree with the official interpretation. Alternately, it could use some unwieldy phrase like, "if it's area overlaps the area of a spell with 2nd-level as its lowest possible level (regardless of what level it is cast at) the spell that created. For a specific rule to overrule that it would have to you know, actually disagree with that, by referring to something like a "natural spell level" or some such, which doesn't exist in the game. General rule is that 3rd-level slot means 3rd-level spell.

In this case, I'm going to reject the sage's advice, because he is incorrectly (IMO) invoking "specific beats general" in a situation where there is no evidence that the specific is out of harmony with the general. The only exceptions would be if it were placed in the formal errata documents and included in new printings. I have a fairly simple rule regarding developer clarifications: If it contradicts the written text, then it isn't authoritative, just opinion-regardless of where it is printed.
