Fey Intrusion

## General

The Fey Intrusion was a nigh-cataclysmic event which occurred in Waterdeep in 493 H.F., from October 5th to October 11th, in which a minor noble from the Feywild intruded into the Prime Material Plane to wreak immense havoc. Though this intrusion was ultimately contained, the effects of it were far-reaching: dozens of Waterdavian lives lost to "inscrutable sources", desecration of the Field of Triumph, and ultimately the entanglement of Coriander Lovelle in Watchguard Management & Solutions.

## Synopsis

On October 5th, the "Harvest Fair" began in Waterdeep, at the city's Field of Triumph. This was unusual, considering the field's normal purpose/reverence, but for those who attended the fair was nothing but extraordinary. It was, for many, the most raucous celebration they had ever had, and the fervor to attend only grew with the knowledge that this festival would only occur the one time and never again.

Still, for the curious few there were oddities around the festival: who was this mysterious, visiting noble who'd been funding this festival at such great cost; was it simply the actions of local gangs that had seen the odd festival-goer snatched away at random over the past few days? Coriander Lovelle sought to reach the truth behind these mysteries. He suspected it all came down to some serial killer capitalizing on the festival to pick off victims - and Coriander hoped to apprehend them for a bounty.

Elsewhere, in the Feywild, rumors had begun to spread through the courts that a minor autumnal noble had escaped to the Prime Material. But Sonder was an agent of Watchguard. She made it a point to establish contact with her superiors on the Prime Material and inform them of the escaped fey noble - one who Sonder knew as "Autumnal Vikont Fairly Breathtaking, the Mourning Celebrant". Through a kind of joint effort, Sonder was sent from the Vernal Court with a cadre of Autumnal agents to locate this noble for the Autumnal Court; this was an allocation of Watchguard's most appropriate agent from the Vernal Court in the Autumnal Court's affairs with this matter.

At the same time, Watchguard's efforts on the Prime Material were focused on investigating the strange disappearances in Waterdeep. When Sonder supplied her information on the cause, Watchguard sent a detachment of research and containment staff (led by Elias and Sara Bellar) to Waterdeep. There, they joined forces with Sonder to apprehend Fairly Breathtaking. They knew this fey noble was violent and that they had likely already taken dozens of mortals over the past few days at this festival - time was of the essence.

Coriander made his way to the festival to finally test his theories and bring this "serial killer" to justice. He was unprepared, however, for the fey noble he would encounter there. He was unprepared for his world to unravel around him, nor was he prepared to catch the attention of a being far beyond his comprehension. The Mourning Celebrant was prepared for him, however. And they had such wonders to share with their new quarry.

Coriander's fate may have proved the same as the countless other victims the Mourning Celebrant had taken before him (a most horrid death, he assumed, given what he had/hadn't found of the victims' remains), were it not for the timely arrival of Sonder and the Bellars. A dire encounter ensued - ultimately ending with the Mourning Celebrant bound and collected by Sonder's fey allies, and Watchguard performing damage control on the fey intrusion and the Bellars offering employment with Watchguard to Coriander.

## Aftermath

Coriander was deeply affected by the Fey Intrusion - equal parts fascinated with the fey and horrified by them. This spawned in him a great fear of fey, and particularly autumnal fey. The Fey Intrusion would ultimately lead him down the path of studying the arcane arts and learning fey/elf histories, of which he became something of an expert among Watchguard's ranks.