>"Ah, I guess not too many know anymore...Sprites are Evolved Fairies. Back when magic first vanished, they were the first casualties...But now that Gensokyo is around, every so often a powerful or abnormally lucid Fairy comes along and Ascends to Spritehood via dedication to something they like. Cirno, Lily White, and myself, are the current three I know about so far...Lily used to just 'love spring', and when she ascended, she became what we know now. That excitable herald of spring. Cirno....Well, even though we're friends, I can't say that she improved much mentally....And me? Well, I ended up as a Sprite of Magic and Knowledge, since I was always smarter than the other fairies..."
>Nod. "Sprites are essentially the same as a Fairy, only stronger. We're still immortal in a sense, and we still look the same as we always do every day, but the more lucid ones like me get smarter, while the power-minded ones like Cirno just get stronger. She wanted to be the strongest badly enough to ascend to Spritehood..."