Feywild

The Feywild, also known as the First World or the Fey or Fae, is so called because it is believed to be the gods' first draft of a subsequent plane that would later develop into the Material Plane. It is the home of powerful Archfey as well as mortal Fey creatures all within a realm suffused with potent magic and unrestrained emotion.

Description

The Feywild was a place of unrestrained and awe-inspiring natural beauty. The plane was divided between portions perpetually bathed in light (as if by a sun) and other portions appearing as in deep night potions of which are lit up by a faint silvery light in the sky (albeit without a moon or stars). Visitors to the plane found that all sensations, both sensory and emotional, were heightened. Smells were stronger, colors were more vivid, and sounds were clearer, but at the same time shadows were darker and impulses were harder to control. Strong emotions even altered the landscape of the Feywild itself, wilting flowers trailed the despondent or furious and carefree animals traveled alongside chipper and cheerful individuals.
Its geography was similar to that of Dünya, but the natural landscape was markedly more dramatic and beautiful in the Feywild, with mountains standing straighter and sharper, rivers flowing clearer and faster, flowers bloom brighter and more fragrantly, and weather manifesting in supernatural ways. Navigating the Feywild was complicated by the fact that distances did not always make sense. While two landmarks might be the same distance apart as in the Prime when travelling in one direction, they might be inexplicably further or closer on the return trip. Furthermore, as the realm had no celestial bodies, the land was divided between a 'day' portion and a 'night' with a portion of 'twilight' between the two. Therefore if one stayed in place the light of day/night would not change, but if one physically moved then they could traverse across a 'day'.
Travel to the Feywild from the Material Plane could be achieved in a few different ways, including intentional magical means or naturally by chance. There was disagreement amongst scholars how random the chance of natural teleportation was with some suggesting a link to the full moon or even to areas strongly associated with emotion and life. The only seeming consistency was that it tended to be linked to natural locations, such as secluded forests, lakes, or natural stone doorways.
Further complicating any visit to the plane was that time did not flow the same in the Feywild as on the Prime. While any visitor would experience time flowing as normal, it was often the case that more time was passing in the Prime, sometimes on the order of weeks, months, or years longer than expected, although it was also possible for little or no time to have passed instead. At the same time, those with no fey ancestry might find their memories of time spent in the Feywild going hazy, if not vanishing altogether.
Magic ran more freely and powerfully in the Feywild than it did in the Prime, and it was for this reason that so many of its inhabitants and landmarks were suffused with magic. As an additional consequence of this all-encompassing magic, spells tended to be amplified in power or duration when cast in the Feywild, and other times would manifest in entirely unexpected ways.
Similarly, more powerful individuals in the Feywild, particularly natives, have extraordinary creating powers whilst in the Fey. For instance, it isn't unheard of for a powerful Archfey to be able to grab shadows and spin it into a cloak or to grasp a strand of water from a stream and spin it into yarn.

Inhabitants

The inhabitants of the Feywild varied in temperament from kind to malicious, but almost all had a mischievous side to them and few stopped to consider the needs or worries of visitors to their home. While many of those living in the First World were untamed, large numbers also congregated according to race or by political allegiance.
All manner of fey species were found within the Feywild.
Fey Elves, called eladrin, were the beings that had the closest thing to a civilization in the Feywild. They were the descendants of the elves that never left the Feywild, and over the millennia had become suffused with the plane's primal magic.
Other creatures that dwelled within the Feywild included a variety of dragons; giants, including fomorians and their servitor cyclopes, who ruled much of the Feydark; and Seraph, who worked to guard mortals from interacting with Teadas Name-Reader.

Religion

The inhabitants of the First World have souls, but are of little interest to the gods. Many of them also have little interest in the gods either. Visitors from other planes sometimes report they feel disconnected from their gods. Divine magic still works, however—although whether this is solely due to the faith or will of the spellcaster, or because the gods have not completely abandoned the First World, is a matter of conjecture.

History

The Feywild was the first of the unaligned worlds created; a realm in which mortal creatures could live out their lives. Scholars are not sure about the origins of the Feywild, some suggest it is a parrallel plane to the Material Plane, acting as a sort of emotional and 'lively' extreme of the more neutral Material Plane and in opposition to the Shadowfell which acts as a emotionless and 'lifeless' opposite. Those who view it this way consider the Feywild as a funnel of 'positive' (i.e. living) energy and the Shadowfell, conversely, as the siphoning of 'negative' (i.e. decaying) energy away from the Material Plane.
Contrary to this, still others have suggested that the Feywild was created as a 'first draft' of the Material Plane in which the gods first 'drafted mortals'. In this view, the Archfey are considered immortal first creations without a Soul but containing a True Name. As such, they are functionally immortal although they do not have any form of great power nor ability to hold sway over divine realms and concepts.

A scene from the Feywild

Gravity: Normal
Time: Erratic
Alignment: Unaligned

Alternative Name(s)

Faewild, First World, The Fey, The Fae

Type

Plane of Existence

Positive Metal: Carbon
Negative Metal: Iron
Tuning Pitch: A (440Hz)