The Feywilds
The Feywild, also called the Plane of Faerie, is a land of soft lights and wonder, a place of music and death. It is a realm of everlasting twilight, with glittering faerie lights bobbing in the gentle breeze and fat fireflies buzzing through groves and fields. The sky is alight with the faded colors of an ever-setting sun, which never truly sets (or rises for that matter it remains stationary, dusky and low in the sky. Away from the settled areas ruled by the seelie fey that compose the Summer and Winter Courts, the land is a tangle of sharp-toothed brambles and syrupy ferns — perfect territory for the unseelie fey to hunt their prey.
Geography
The Feywild exists in parallel to the Material Plane, an alternate dimension that occupies the same cosmological space. The landscape of the Feywild mirrors the natural world but turns its features into spectacular forms. Where a volcano stands on the Material Plane, a mountain topped with skyscraper-sized crystals that glow with internal fire towers in the Feywild. A wide and muddy river on the Material Plane might be echoed as a clear and winding brook of great beauty. A marsh could be reflected as a vast black bog of sinister character. And moving to the Feywild from old ruins on the Material Plane might put a traveler at the door of an archfey’s castle.
Ecosystem
The Feywild is inhabited by sylvan creatures, such as elves, dryads, satyrs, pixies, and sprites, as well as centaurs and magical creatures such as blink dogs, faerie dragons, treants, and unicorns. The darker regions of the plane are home to such malevolent creatures as hags, blights, goblins, ogres, and giants.
Ecosystem Cycles
The sky is alight with the faded colors of an ever-setting sun, which never truly sets (or rises for that matter it remains stationary, dusky and low in the sky. As such there are no real changing of the seasons.
Localized Phenomena
Each court, Summer, Winter, Spring and Fall, controls one season and that season reigns in their domain.
In the wilds away from the courts, the seasons shift unexpectedly. One day, it might be a breezy summer day. The next a blizzard might dominate the lands.
Fauna & Flora
The Feywild, a realm of ethereal enchantment, teems with an array of extraordinary flora and fauna. Vibrant flowers bloom with hues unseen in the mortal realm, their petals shimmering with otherworldly iridescence. Majestic trees stand tall, their branches adorned with leaves that seem to whisper secrets in the wind.
Fey creatures, both wondrous and mischievous, frolic among the verdant landscapes. Sprightly pixies flit through the air, their delicate wings leaving trails of iridescent magic in their wake. Playful satyrs dance amidst meadows, their haunting melodies luring all who listen into a state of blissful enchantment.
Butterflies of every color and size flutter about, their wings imbued with fantastical patterns that seem to shift and change with each graceful movement. Ethereal unicorns, their luminous horns aglow, graze peacefully in sunlit clearings, embodying grace and purity.
In the Feywild, the line between flora and fauna often blurs, as sentient plants and talking animals coexist harmoniously. Ancient treants, guardians of the forest, stand sentinel over groves, their voices resonating with wisdom as they commune with nature.
History
Two sets of Kings and Queens hold court in the Feywild, and most fey owe allegiance to one or the other. Queen Titania, the ruler of the Summer Court, and King Oberon. the ruler of the Winter Court, lead the seelie fey. The Queen of Air and Darkness, ruler of the Fall Court, and the King of the Violent Birth, ruler of the Spring Court leads the unseelie fey.
Seelie and unseelie do not directly correlate with good and evil, though many mortals make that assumption. Many seelie fey are good, and many unseelie are evil, but their opposition to each other stems from their royals' jealous rivalry, not abstract moral concerns. Ugly denizens of the Feywild, such as fomorians and hags, are almost never members of either court, and fey of independent spirit reject the courts entirely. The courts have warred at times, but they also compete in more-or-less friendly contests and even ally with one another in small and secret ways.
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