Geographic Base: Scotland

Appearance: Brownies are sadly not the most attractive creatures to human eyes, as their faces are almost completely flat, with only pinhole nostrils. 11" tall, they have a lot of unruly brown hair, beards, black eyes, and slightly pointed ears. Their skin is a tan color and they have very long nimble fingers for delicate tasks. Their shabby felt suits and caps in dark colors are also not very impressive. Brownies are however known for bright happy grins, which greatly improves their presentation.

Lifestyle: Brownies are amazing house elves of the sort that live to serve their human family by doing all manner of task during the night. They are also dear friends of roosters, who crow at dawn to tell them to stop working and go to bed. Brownies live in mutual dependence with their host family, providing invaluable labor and receiving in return meals of cream and cake. Brownies like warmth and darkness, though they do enjoy firelight. Brownies as a whole are extremely humble, despite their obvious talents at the many crafts they engage in - they do particularly spectacular fine work, like lace making and embroidery. They also posess a bright intelligence. Also, unlike most techno-phobic magical peoples, the Brownies have become extremely fond of television, their favorite programs usually being children's cartoons and soap operas. While they detest cats (which tend to pounce on them and which are not, to the Brownie mind, grateful enough for the services provided for them), Brownies are great caretakers of other types of pets, especially puppies. In general, it could be said that the more work given them, the happier the Brownie will be, as they never seem to run out of time to do everything and it gives them a sense of purpose to help out the family they have adopted.

Human Interaction: Brownies are very, very close to their adopted family in many ways, but strangely distant in others. While they love to do favors and provide treats, and often enjoy lively correspondences by note with members of their household, Brownies are seldom ever seen and speak only in instances of crises (more than one family has been saved from fire by the cries of their Brownie). They work tirelessly, but their terms of service are a very strict set of rules. While they live off human offerings of food, nothing must ever be given directly, rather it should be left for the Brownie to find "accidentally." Too, this food should be of good quality, they are never ever to be offered new clothes (as shabby as they are they quite like their ragged shirts), and their efforts should never be criticized (not that a Brownie's labor ever really gives cause to complain). If these requirements are in any way unfulfilled the Brownie will scamper off to a more grateful home. Normally though, any household good enough to have attracted a Brownie in the first place will establish a relationship with theirs that can last the whole life of the Brownie (90 years on average). The best gift that can be given a Brownie in reward for their labors is some form of coin or token that lacks monetary value (these fulfill the Brownie's contradictory desire for payment and touchiness about being actually paid). They treasure used ticket stubs, tokens for defunct attractions, and have in recent years gone crazy for expired credit cards.