I doubt it's fey/fae/fair folk/fum; it feels like an unnecessary complication when exactly the same role could be played by chaotic outsiders, humanoids, oathspirits or Muppets.
A thought that cropped up was possibly Manticores. They're intelligent, can fly, attack with poison darts, and it'd make some sense for them to be left in charge of a dungeon of super-monsters.