Feywild

Illustration for Arc 9 Episode 2 showing the Feywild, drawn by @juliaxrenee on Instagram

### Episodes

* Arc 5 Episode ? (mentioned)
* Annie and Charles' Day of Fun
* Sky Pirate Beach Day (mentioned)
* Arc 7 Episode 0 (mentioned)
* Arc 9
* Arc 11 Episodes 2-4

The Feywild is the origin plane of faerie creatures. It is a plane of magic and deception, and a mirror of the Material Plane.

## Description

The Feywild is a place of fairy tale logic, of magic and deception. It runs on its own kind of logic, and is a place of wonder as well as a place of danger. Although it might seem normal at first glance, the weirdness of this place lies in its details.

## Culture and Politics

The fey are known to make contracts that are binding in ways that contracts from the Material Plane usually are not, and to take words very literally, sometimes intentionally twisting words of careless speakers. The plane is also filled with riddles and puzzles.

People in the Feywild do not use coin for trade, but a bartering system.

At least in a part of the Feywild, there are courts representing the four seasons. These courts are so deeply connected with the Feywild itself that even the surroundings represent the corresponding season.

## The Feywild Sky

The sky in the Feywild is in a perpetual twilight (during Annie and Charles' Day of Fun).

In Sky Pirate Beach Day, it is established that there are no moons in the Feywild. Contrary to that, the Arc 9 party arrives in the Feywild at night and sees the moon above them. The number and identity of the celestial bodies canonically changes multiple times: a few Feywild decades before Arc 9, the moon hatches a monster that eats the sun. Following this event, there is no sun at all for about a year or two, until the siblings Lee and Dawna and their friend Deb defeat the monster. Deb decides to go back to their home on the Material Plane, while Lee and Dawna decide to become the new sun and moon. A few Feywild weeks before Arc 9, then, a powerful man named Render steals Lee from the sky to use him for his purposes, and rips him apart as he doesn't do his bidding. The Arc 9 party helps bring Lee back into the sky, and Julian Crimeboy decides to join him, resulting in a double star sun, with the two stars being so close to each other that they are indistinguishable when looking from the ground.

There are stories claiming that people who are powerful enough are able to take a star from the sky, which would allow them to see into the future. If they are especially powerful, they are said to might even be able to change the future.

## Time, Logic, Magic

The Feywild runs off of fairytale logic and thus does not always adhere to the rules of the Material Plane. Also, magic is more abundant and stronger in this plane, and there is always a bit of a background hum of magic that can be detected with a *Detect Magic* spell.

Time is known to not work the same as it does in the Material Plane. What can feel like days in the Feywild can be years in the Material Plane, or the other way around. Similarly, distances are hard to tell there, and sometimes distances that seem very long can be travelled in mere moments, while distances that seem short take longer than they should. The relation between distance and time necessary to travel it (with constant speed) is not constant, either, and sometimes the way back can take a lot more or less time than the original way did.

It is generally not advised to be careless in the Feywild, as it is a dangerous plane, no matter how peace- and colourful it might seem at first. As such, it is better for visitors from the Material Plane not to take a Long Rest in the Feywild.

## Flora and Fauna

The Feywild is a sprawling world of verdant greens, filled with the most saturated pastel colours imaginable. Some animals or plants might seem familiar to visitors from the Material Plane at first, but then there are details about them that are magical or ethereal in surprising ways.

There are many fanciful plants in the Feywild. Many of the plants growing there are actually evil or harmful towards careless visitors.

* **Bioluminescent Fungus** - fungi growing in the mushroom cave. If a visitor tries to pluck them, they have to succeed on a Constitution saving throw. They make different kinds of sounds sounding like a beat when they are touched.
* **Chromatic Clover**
* **Feywild Artichokes** - they grow on trees like pinecones
* **Fungal Root that squeaks**
* **Lilies that can talk**
* **Soft blue-ish grey trees with wind chime leaves**
* **Wild Magic Flowers** - when plucked, these flowers have an effect from the wild magic table. They come in different shades of blue, sometimes even nearly grey.

All around the Feywild are small woodland creatures running around. Some of the animals can speak, some either choose not to or cannot speak.

* **Beatboxing bunny** - a creature that looks similar to a rabbit, but with more ears and fluffy spikes. It jumps around the mushroom pads in the mushroom cave, and the pads make sounds like drums as it does so.
* **Fairy Dragon** - massive creatures of shifting colours of black, pink, and purple with curling horns, insectoid eyes, and butterfly adjacent wings, that breathe acid and gas. They are common amongst the fey courts, but generally connected to the spring and summer courts, especially the spring court. Their statblocks are a mix of the fairy dragon and black dragons.
* **Silver Ribbonlark** - a beautiful bird with long, ribbon-like wings and a tail that also seems to be made out of silver ribbon. The feathers of this bird are very long and thin, have a silken look to them and seem to be perpetually floating. Known birds: Marlene
* **Swan of Bone** - a swan that looks to be made out of bone. Known birds: Báisteach
* **Swan of Song** - a perlescent swan that moves very gracefully and sings a beautiful, but hauntingly sad song. Known birds: Ghaoth
* **White Cardinal** - a white bird with a brief, smoky haze around it, and red on the underside of its feathers. Known birds: Nwane

## The Feywild and the Material Plane

As the Feywild is a mirror plane to the Material Plane, many locations that can be found in the Material Plane have an equivalent in the Feywild. It is a lot easier to access than planes like the Celestial Planes. There is a portal in a forest close to Tyle, and one in a house about one or two days of travel away from Qto.

Knowledge of the Feywild is pretty common in the Material Plane. There are many stories about people who stumbled into the Feywild and had to fight their way out, or of magic leaking out of it.

## Notable Places

* **Lacewing's House** - a house close to a portal. It is bigger on the inside, and filled with magical trinkets.
* **Maatte** - a quaint little town mirroring Qto.
* **Scavenger Hunt Path** - a path leading through different regions of the Feywild.

## Inhabitants of the Feywild

The Feywild is home to fey of all kinds, from powerful archfey to little pixies. Many Harengon, Otterfolk, and Hanakow live there as well. Some Elves also have a connection to it, especially Eladrin.

### Hanakow

The Hanakow are mushroom people that are about two feet tall and squat wide. They have no visible mouth or nose and cannot talk, but they have big dark eyes that take up half of their faces. They have mushroom caps on the tops of their heads in different colours and patterns. They rely on being able to photosynthesise.

### Notable Inhabitants

* **Dawna** - the Moon of the Feywild
* **Draen'd** - a tree person and reincarnation of Bombyx
* **Flower the Lily** - a talking lily that names herself Flower. She lets Fey pluck one of her leaves.
* **Foq Eweard** - a member of a Feywild court
* **Ginger Sprite** (part time) - Ginger spends time on the Material Plane and works there, too, but still knows how to get to the Feywild fast.
* **Gregory "Greg"** - a raven, and familiar of a wizard named Peter. Good friend of Charles.
* **Holly Hawthorne** - a Winter Eladrin from the snowy parts of the Feywild that competes in the Snowdrop Competition of 19 AP (Snowdrop Livestream).
* **Julian Crimeboy** - as the Second Sun of the Feywild
* **Kyk Eweard** - sister of Foq, member of the spring court, going to run the army
* **Lacewing** - a fey person with four arms, spiral eyes and ears that end in spirals. They collect magical trinkets and are willing to trade them.
* **Lee** - the Sun of the Feywild
* **Mermaids** - Known mermaids: An, Calliope, Medlessa, Judith, Salome, Trifle
* **Not-Bombyx** - a shapechanger living in the Feywild, that at one point was in debt to Bombyx.
* **Rian's parent** - an Eladrin that is conscripted when Rian is twelve
* **Smäk Eweard** - brother of Foq, member of the spring court, in line to become king
* **Sougle's parents** (former) - they used to live in the Feywild, but moved away before Sougle was born
* **The Spider** - see Lacewing
* **Wudderrat** - an otterfolk man that informs the Arc 9 party about the situation of the Feywild and the town

## Notable Visitors

* **Arc 3 party** and **Charles** - Annie and Charles' Day of Fun
* **Arc 9 party** - after investigating the magic pool underneath a house in 147 AE
* **Arc 11 party** - get plane shifted into the Feywild by the Ascendant Engine
* **Deb** - falls into the Feywild some time between 131 and 133 AE