User blog comment:FTWinchester/Retcon of Avalon/@comment-3481504-20121126022654/@comment-5619706-20121126035627

I think it would be the standard deity (in my idea, I consider Trolls and Redcaps and all other below them to be standard, with the ancients and elementals to be the more powerful ones) who wins. Weaker deities like the Leshi however, would have a hard time taking down a stronger Fay. Gods that affect weather may, possibly, negotiate deals with the elementals, but as the elementals are the actual representation of the power itself, I'd say the elementals win. If you are familiar with Buffy's The First Evil, he was powerful in a way that all other antagonists were sinners, but The First Evil was sin himself, predating any vampire or demon, and transcending any boundary or species that has even an ounce of hate or malice in them.

I honestly do not have an answer to that metaquestion. I would say the fairies are loyal to Oberon and function independently as much as the monsters were to Eve, but even Eve's alignment is murky. She is the counterpart to Hell's Lucifer and Heaven's God, and even she herself claims to be a better 'creator' or 'caretaker' of her children than God was. But that would also mean she is a deity. But one thing is clear, the fairies sure as hell aren't in the good books of angels (who don't even give the slightest damn to humans, unless they are in the form of souls which have already entered heaven).