Fairy Split

Fairy Split
Type	Defensive Spell
Fields	Fairy, Transform
Cost	Higher Cost C5: 70 rupees C4: 85 rupees C3: 100 rupees C2: 115 rupees C1: 130 rupees Rent: 15 rupees

Fairy Split is a defensive spell, and a exclusive racial perk for Great Fairies. As such, a Great Fairy can choose to gain it as a perk upon character creation, but in doing so, it counts as two racial perks, occupying two "slots". Since this is an exclusive perk, other races cannot acquire it as a treasure.

Great Fairies tend to have an innate defensive mechanism used to help preserve their lives in times of crisis. When taking any sort of moderately injuring blow, a Great Fairy may choose to split into 6 small "Stray Fairies." These Stray Fairies are all share the Great Fairies' will and intelligence, but act indepedently of one another. They lack almost any physical strength, lack hands capable of manipulating objects, and are incapable of using any treasures. The Stray Fairies will float as if using the Hover spell, regardless of if the Great Fairy has the ability. If the Great Fairy does have Hover, the Stray Fairies can hover at thrice the height they would otherwise be able.

After a few minutes have passed after being separated, if at least half of these Stray Fairies are within 6 feet (2 meters) one another and the Great Fairy wills it, they will reform into her Great Fairy form. For each missing Stray Fairy upon reforming, the Great Fairy will receive the effects, partially, of whatever attack caused her to split, with the degree increasing per missing Stray Fairy. If there are less than 3 Stray Fairies, the Great Fairy cannot reform. Any Stray Fairies not in the initial reform can automatically recombine with the Great Fairy at any time afterwards, however this will not heal any damage incurred by missing Stray Fairies. So long as a Great Fairy hasn't recovered all the strays, however, she cannot use this ability again. Regardless of how quickly the strays reform, this ability cannot be used more than once an hour.

A Great Fairy can recover any missing Stray Fairies by resting for an extended period of time in any Fairy Fountain.

Trivia

• The Fairy Split treasure does not appear verbatim within the official Zelda series. However, it can be interpreted to exist from context, initially so in Majora's Mask.
• This technique can be seen as a variation on Split, with longer-lasting effects.