Fata

Fata (ファータ) is an umbrella term for a mystical race in the Kiniro no Corda series. Fata translates as "fairy" in Italian, and their ranks are named after metallic substances. It ties into one of Ruby Party's main themes for the series: the bonds which tie people and music together are fortified with a power stronger than steel.

Fata are specified to mean a specific type of fairy in the Corda canon. Lovers of music in all its forms, the fata address themselves as "fairies of music". They tend to be offended if they are mistaken to be normal fairies (妖精, yousei), proud of their Italian name.

Role in Games
Fata come from an alternate dimension adjacent to the human realm called Mondo. Like humans, fata have individual personalities and names. Like most fairies seen in fiction, they are tiny humanoids about the size of an index finger who fly with magic and transparent wings. Playful and cheerful, their harmonious society is divided into distinct ranks of authority.

Other groups include Colore (コローレ) but details regarding them remain unclear.
 * 1) The all presiding ruler of Mondo is Platino, The Fairy King (妖精王プラティーノ). He is regarded as the wisest of their kind, the keeper of their kind's greatest secrets. Yet he is legendary and not even the fata have seen him.
 * 2) Fata tend to answer to their elders the Oro (オーロ). These twelve elite pass fata judgment on any disagreements if needed.
 * 3) Active supervisors tend to be Argento (アルジェント). Fata within this rank use their advanced magic to oversee music. Lili is the only argento seen in the series.
 * 4) Rame (ラーメ) are an argento's subordinates and keepers of knowledge. They ring bells to stage theatrical reproductions of a song's theme. In the game, they are the fairies with the hooped twin-tail hairstyle.
 * 5) Ferro (フェッロ) are an argento's subordinates underneath rame. Ferro are trusted with creating and keeping the sheet music. In the game, they are the fairies with the spiky ponytail.
 * 6) Children fata are called Pietra (ピエトラ). They scribe music notes onto pages.

While the majority of fata stay within their realm, they can venture into select locations of the human realm. Fata, especially the argento, love to wander between their safe spots as they please. People ordinarily cannot see fata because they use magic to hide themselves. Over time, fata and people began to live on a different wavelength. A select few, however, can see past the fata's magic. These people are regarded as the fata's lifelong friend and may attract the fairies to them.

Due to Lili's promise to the school's founder, every participant in Seiso's private annual concour gains the ability see fata. The fata consider the concour to be a festival and gladly gather to celebrate. Anyone chosen by Lili to play is regarded as an honored friend. Once the school concour ends, everything returns to normal. Since proving the existence of invisible fairies would be difficult to others, fata remains inside knowledge with anyone who has taken part in the school's concour. Fata are generally accepted as mysterious yet friendly protectors of music, mistakingly believed to bless the concour's winner with a dazzling music career.

Kiniro no Corda 3 may not show fata during its main narrative, but it continues to allude to them in Ritsu, Amamiya, and Myoga's events. Maestro Field (マエストロ・フィールド), the illusionary effect which occurs during a lead musician's stunning performance, is rumored to be the fata's gift to the performer.