The Feywild

Pictured: A Lesser Nobles estate within the holdings of the Vernal Court

## Description

The Feywild, one of the three material planes, is the Prime Material's "Bright Mirror". In the depths of the Feywild, life is lived and lived abundantly. To natives of the Prime Material, the sheer vibrancy of existence within the land of the Fey can be jarring if not outright harmful.

In short, the Feywild is a land of strange extremes: physical and ideological. Mountains rear to dizzying heights, while valleys sink to such depths that the bottoms never see sunlight. Trees bear fruit in Winter's frigid depths and delicate mists persist underneath the blazing Summer sun.

The Natives are no different. The Fey are a strange people, as extreme in personality as their Plane is in geography. Their thoughts and actions are often viewed as strange and mercurial to the natives of other planes, and they are famed for their chaotic nature and unpredictability.

The one unchanging constant within the Feywild is the Courts and their dominance of all aspects of life. An individual Fey's social, political, and even personal life and power is intricately tied to which Court they live within, and the whims of that court's Nobles

## Organization

### The Feywild Itself

The Feywild is not one cohesive plane. Through a method not currently understood clearly by Watchguard planar researchers, the Feywild is composed of four different versions of the same plane layered over each other and existing concurrently. Any given location in the Feywild--for example a particularly large Oak tree--exists as a discrete location in each of these four separate inter-planar levels. Each of these four levels is known as a "Court".

There are four of these Courts, and each possesses it's own population, political bodies and even environmental conditions. Any given Fey individual living in the Feywild is only actively experiencing one of these Courts at any given time. In fact, most individuals in the Feywild spend their entire existence within one Court, and are only vaguely aware of the other three realities layered atop their own.

Minor physical alterations to any given location in one Court does not necessarily affect the others. However, major alterations in one Court can eventually cause of sort of "ripple effect" into the others. These secondary effects may not take the same form as the original alteration and, in fact, often take on the appearance of circumstantial coincidence. For example, the chopping down of a single of tree in the Vernal Court may have no immediate effect on that same tree as it exists in the Hibernal court, only for it to fall down under the weight of particularly heavy snowfall 2-3 weeks later. To an individual in the Hibernal court, without any knowledge of the earlier events in the Vernal court, this would seem a natural event.

The table below describes the four fey Courts. Fey Nobles maintain that it is the power of their courts that allow the Prime material to experience its own four seasons. This claim is unsubstantiated, but in pursuit of thoroughness the associated season claimed by each court has been included in the table.

 Aestival
 Autumnal
 Hibernal

### The Nobles

The table below denotes the standard ranking and peerage of Fey Nobles:

 **Baron (Field noble)** | The lowest title of Fey nobility, a baron is entrusted to guide and protect Fey towns and other settlements