The Nimbostratus

The Northwest has always been a strange place to those who observe it from the outside. To some who live there, it's stranger still. The city of Seattle sits on a thin barrier between the Material Plane and a realm of the strange known as the Nimbostratus. The Nimbostratus is home to all sorts of feyfolk and creatures who wander an endlessly gray metropolis of Cumulus. The city exemplefies the strange parts of the locations on the other side of the planar divide. Gay bars become genderqueer bachanalia. Seafair Pirates become roguish buccaneers traveling the streets on a giant rubber duck. The Fremont Troll is an old, wizened sage of the neighborhood. As parts of Seattle enter into the psyche of the metropolis, the walls between the planes become thin and travel between the planes become possible to those who can see through the veil. To those who can't, fairies appear as punks or drag queens, trolls appear as tech bros, and sasquatch looks like a strangely tall, granola munching hiker.