Feywild

The Feywild is an "echo" of the Prime Material Plane, infused with potent magic, and unrestrained emotions. It is the place from which fey originated, as well as from where the first elves and harengon arrived in Croyora.

Geography

The Feywild is a place of unrestrained and awe-inspiring natural beauty. The plane is always bathed in twilight of the setting (or perhaps the rising) sun, with lanterns and fireflies providing additional, haunting lights. Visitors to the plane often find that all sensations, both sensory and emotional, are heightened while in the Feywild. Smells are strongers, colours more vivid, sounds clearer, but at the same time shadows are darker and impulses are harder to control. Strong emotions even alter the landscape of the Feywild itself, wilting flowers trail the despondent or furious, and carefree animals travel alongside chipper and cheerful individuals.
As an "echo" of the Prime, the Feywild's geography is similar, but not entirely identical, to that of Croyora, but the natural landscape is markedly more dramatic and beautiful in the Feywild, with mountains standing straighter and sharper, rivers flowing clearer and faster, flowers blooming brighter and more fragrant, and weather manifesting in supernatural ways. While most Prime locations and landmarks have analogues in the Feywild, sites of civilization in the Prime can be so unimportant in the Feywild as to be easily missed, while natural landmarks might be significantly more majestic or extreme. Navigating the Feywild is further complicated by the fact that distances do 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 away or closer on the return trip.
Further complicating any visit to the plane is that time does not flow the same in the Feywild as on the Prime. While any visitor experiences time flowing is normal, it is often the case that more time is passing in the Prime, sometimes to the order of weeks, months, or years longer than expected, although it is also possible for little or no time to have passed instead. More concerning, leaving the Feywild can have dire or even fatal consequences. Lost time can suddenly "catch up" to a mortal, sending them into fits of exhaustion or hunger, or in some cases killing them instantly if many years have passed. At the same time, those with no fey ancestry might find their memories of time in the Feywild growing hazy, or vanishing altogether.
Magic runs more freely and powerfully in the Feywild than it does in the Prime, and it is for this reason that so many of its inhabitants and landmarks are infused with magic. Indeed, this is why elves possess such a propensity to use magic. An additional consequence of this all-encompassing magic is that spells tend to be amplified in power or duration when case in the Feywild, or might manifest in entirely unexpected ways.

Localized Phenomena

Motes of energy that originate in the Feywild manifest as feywild sparks. These are highly sought after by adventurers that dare to brave the plane's perilous wilderness.
The most common means of traversing in or out of the Feywild is through a fey crossroad, which often requires special knowledge of how to pass between the planes.

Alternative Name(s)

Faerie

Type

Plane of Existence