Feywild
The Feywild is as unpredictable and diverse as its denizens .
A plane just as vast as the Material and Ethereal, the Feywild is a strange place that's laws, fauna, and flora baffle outsiders. Basic tenets like the flow of time, the passage of days, and direction break down in the Feywild as if designed by a chaotic trickster.
Just like the other planes, the Feywild is separated by a Veil between realms. But unlike the Ethereal and Material, which are mirrored images of each other, the Feywild occupies its own unique space; much of the Feywild is dramatically different from its corresponding location on the Material. Yet the Feywild is only slightly more inward than the Ethereal Plane, and thus is almost as easy to access.
In some places the Feywild and Material occupy the same space and are not separated by the Veil. These places are called the luos morti: the so-called "Doors of Death". Far from doors, and only sometimes deadly, the only hint of a luos morti may be a circle of mushrooms or even nothing at all. Entering them is nearly as unpredictable as the Feywild itself: to enter a given luos morti, one may need to walk in a specific pattern, perform a certain incantation, or even sing a poem to a specific tree branch.
The Laws of the Feywild
The "Laws" of the Feywild, or rather the lack of them, refer to some of the differences compared to the Material Plane.
Time:
Time does not pass the same way here. A mortal may spend a minute in the Feywild, only to find that a month has passed in the Material Plane. This is one of the most feared consequences of travel through the Feywild.
Days:
The day and night cycle is different. Depending on ones location, the sun stays at a fixed point. One may walk in a straight line for ten hours, and three "days" may pass, or, one may walk for a week and find the sun is blazing overhead for the entire time. Large regions of the Feywild are permanently at a particular "time" of day. For instance, the Unseelie court is perpetually twilit, while the Seelie court is always lit by the morning sun.
Although difficult for the non-Fey mind to comprehend, all navigation by Fey is done using the relative movement of the sun and moon after walking. A direction may be given as such: "Walk for 10000 paces towards nighttime, then for 1000 paces towards the cliff, then 3000 paces right of nighttime, then 500 paces towards daytime."
Perspective:
One of the most unsettling features of the Feywild to mortals is the lack of perspective. Subtle at first, a traveler walking through a forest towards a mountain may walk for many days and find the mountain has not moved, then walk for an hour to the right and find it is suddenly at their feet.
Sentience:
Many "things" in the Feywild actually have some degree of sentience. Thus, it is considered extremely rude to break a branch from a tree without asking, to step on a mushroom, or to eat a fruit.
Oaths and Lying:
Despite, or perhaps because, of their realms chaotic nature, Fey place a very high value on agreements and oaths. Many a hapless creature has unwittingly made an agreement with a Fey, being ensnared by clever wordplay. Moreover, it is nearly impossible for Fey to tell lies, and the ability of a Fey to bend the truth is a mark of a very powerful being indeed.
Names:
Names are of great value to the Fey, and it is considered exceedingly foolish to give ones name to a Fey.
The Courts
The populated part of the Feywild is divided into Courts - a group of Fey creatures led by an Archfey. Most fey swear allegiance to the Seelie and Unseelie Courts, but a plethora of smaller Courts in turn swear allegiance to them, or are independent. For example, the Winter Court, the Autumn Court, the Night Court, and the Fungal Court (each with their own lesser Courts) all swore allegiance to the Unseelie Court, whereas the Spring Court, the Day Court, the Flowery Court, and the Summer Court all swore allegiance to the Seelie Court.
The Courts are dictated by the natural characteristics of their followers. Fundamentally, the largest division between Fey is the desire to be seen, or "Seelie", and the Fey who wish to be unseen: the "Unseelie". The second largest division within the Feywild is into the Night and Day Courts, which tend to be vassals of the Unseelie and Seelie respectively, and then the Seasonal Courts.
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