Feywild
"Have you ever experienced volatile, chaotic entities attempting to create some form of order? If so, you've most likely been to the Feywild."
-Dr. Wyndi Čeloscas in her text Politics Within Chaos, CY 1670
Ever since the Second Great Calamity, the Feywild has separated itself in totality from the destroyed magic of the original Prime Material Plane, instead attaching and leeching off of the arcane energy of the demiplane known as Uthilith. It exists as an echo of the Secondary Material, infused with naturally occurring cognitive magic that arose with the Divine Creation. The Feywild is a place of pure, unrestrained emotion - and all aspects of its existence reflect that heightened state in spades.
Ever since the Second Great Calamity, the Feywild has separated itself in totality from the destroyed magic of the original Prime Material Plane, instead attaching and leeching off of the arcane energy of the demiplane known as Uthilith. It exists as an echo of the Secondary Material, infused with naturally occurring cognitive magic that arose with the Divine Creation. The Feywild is a place of pure, unrestrained emotion - and all aspects of its existence reflect that heightened state in spades.
Geography
"You awaken in a glade at twilight. Twin streams gurgle as your skin grazes the soft grasses, and the quiet breeze smells of lavender and honey. The light of fireflies surrounds your prostrate form, twinkling in the vivid chroma of sunset."
The Feywild is divided into four topographical sections that bleed into one another, despite the best efforts of their respective Courts. When superimposed onto the geography of Uthilith, it becomes clear that the Feywild has loosely influenced the Uthilithian climate and land.
The territory of the Spring Court is a dense, lively wood, beholden to the emotion of curiosity. All Uthilithian life stems from the Tree of Life, a massive organism grown by the sole deity creatures in the Spring Court choose to follow. Energy from the Spring Court most closely affects the Forgotten Continent, Fhirdiad Major, and southern Thur Nirkhum (encompassing the capital Nurn Durahl).
The territory of the Summer Court is an ever-expansive glade, laden with rivers and streams more pure than anywhere else of the core Planes. Territory here is most beholden to the emotion of spontaneity - mortals ought to be cautious while in the reaches of the Summer Court, lest the whims of the land or the Fey shift with no warning. Uthilith contains one direct portal to the Feywild that involves no other arcane means, and it can be found in the fey-touched city of Twinvale, leading to the home of the Summer Court. Energy from the Summer Court most closely affects central Uthilith - it encompasses nearly all of Chaelwyth, eastern Tempora (south of Twinvale), the Isle of Eldin, and Fhirdiad Minor.
The territory of the Autumn Court is a hilly forest, perpetually shrouded in autumnal leaves. Territory here is most beholden to the emotion of apprehension, as the vast majority of what arcane scholars call "cryptids" were born of Autumnal descent. Although considered the lower court of the Unseelie, some of the most powerful fey to have lived were born under the blood moon of the Court. Energy from the Autumn Court encompasses the entire continent of Iacchus Argentum, shrouding all in that faint sensation of anxiety.
The territory of the Winter Court is by far the most expansive, a vast boreal forest that twinkles with the patience of a glacier. Good and evil are not ideals ever examined by the Fey, merely acting on whim - and thus the Winter Court is most beholden to the emotion of forbearance. All land in the Feywild carries with it its own primordial soul, and the soul of the Winter Court believes that all will one day be consumed by the Everfrost. Energy from the Winter Court most closely affects places on the outskirts of Uthilith, though not exclusively - this includes central and western Tempora (with boundaries set on the western edge of the Dreadnaught Swamp and Danrose Plains), the very northernmost edges of Faron, the Brimstone Mountains, and everything in Thur Nirkhum north of the Durahlian Plateau.
Localized Phenomena
A natural disaster that occurs approximately once a century is called an emotive maelstrom, where the unrestrained emotions of a single Archfey grow so great that a destructive torrent of arcane energy echoes through the landscape of a particular court. A notable instance in this particular phenomenon created the entity known as Loki during a clash between The Erlkönig (former King of the Autumn Court) and Artagan, a pre-Calamity archfey. The latter was slain, but not before his anguish created an electrical storm so powerful that it struck the palace of the Unseelie, disintegrating the then-king in that instance. Subsequently, the Pumpkin King would ascend to power before mysteriously disappearing in CY 300.
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