Feywild
The Feywild is one of the three Existential Planes. alongside the material world and the Shadowfell. It is a place of sublime and primeval beauty, filled with the creative energies known as mana to an even greater degree than its sister-worlds. Despite its beauty, the feywild is no less dangerous than the material plane it borders so closely. Its primeval wildernesses are haunted by creatures of sublime and terrible power, many of whom view beings from the material world as nothing more than an amusement or distraction.
It is the home plane of most fey, and even those fey that are not from the feywild are heavily influenced by it. Their twilit realms span the untramelled wilds like a gleaming web, linked together by ancient pathways and generational tales. The great empires of the feywild are just as scheming and expansionist as their material cousins, but their invariably longer lifespans tend to ensure that most maneuvering is extremely subtle.
The Feywild is in many ways a reflection of the material world, albeit one untramelled by the rise of civilization. The fey are an outgrowth of the natural world; they are manifestations of it, and their intrinsic connection to it means they are unwilling to despoil it. The great palaces of the fey are places of sublime beauty, not built so much as grown; stone shaped through the eternal flows of water into great halls and gilded statues, trees twisted to towering spires of silver bark. Many believe that everyone and everything has an equivalent in the feywild. While this is not true of individuals, it is true of races, geographic features, and even nations. However, these are not mere copies, but twisted to the sublime sensibilities of the feywild, and which is the mirror and which the original is ever a question. These mirrors are also not guaranteed to exist in the same times or places as their counterparts; the mirrors of ancient empires, such as Ishtakar, still thrive in the feywild, while their real-world equivalents fell eons ago. Many scholars thus travel to the feywild to attempt to glean secrets of the past or future, but the distortion inherent in this mirroring makes any findings difficult to apply back to the material world
In some places, travel from the material world to the feywild is possible. These are usually liminal places, areas where boundaries are blurred; the arching boughs of great trees, the thresholds of doorways, and crossroads are all places where the veil is thin and can be breached even by accident. In these places, people go missing, returning seconds, decades, or millennia after they left, or before, if they ever return at all. The fey also cross over at times, usually to observe, but sometimes for more nefarious goals.
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