Gevtivar

*'As they walked along a narrow path through slender birches, Mosk noticed the many flickers of colour on the bed of blue flowers and realised that he was seeing far more butterflies than was normal. There must have been thousands, many with different coloured wings.'*

## Introduction

Gevtivar is a mixed-alignment village of predominantly Unseelie insect and arthropod fae, north of the Seelie heartlands. Gwyn ap Nudd, Mosk Manytrees, Eran Iliakambar, Augus Each Uisge, Ash Glashtyn, and Julvia Dubna Vajat visited it during their quest to defeat Olphix.

## Appears in

Major canon:

*The Ice Plague: Book 3 - The Ice Plague*

## Description

Gevtivar is relatively close to the School of the Staff and Mauerland.

A forest of birches signals the town ahead, with meadows covered with thousands of butterflies with different colored wings. Some of those fae are butterfly shifters.

The town itself has many sprawling houses around a central village green filled with flowers. It is lit with phosphorescence and other lights that glow in green, brown and blue, including in the cobblestones, as well as in spiderweb boluses slung over tree branches. Almost none of the fae in the town live in human form, preferring to live in hybrid form. Most of the fae are accustomed to talking in unique insect languages, using lights and hand signals and other cues to communication such as touching antennae together. Mosk also noted that they are more likely to speak in clicks, growls or purrs. Very few speak the common tongue.

Gwyn said it's 'just a town very friendly to all things small and crawling. The earthworms here are the fattest and the happiest. The earwigs have the sharpest pincers. The caterpillars have the thickest, warmest cocoons. Gevtivar has been a safe haven to the small creatures for as long as I can remember. The bee fae have their own town nearby, and they’re more warring, but honestly…none of them are particularly interested in war with any species of fae outside of their own. They have their own civil skirmishes from time to time. Some of the fae co-habiting here do eat each other, after all.'

Gwyn and his party stayed in a spindly looking tower/inn added to over the years that resembles a wood and silk cocoon. All the windows are different sizes and shapes. The tower predominantly has walls of wood and utilizes a lot of nonsticky and sticky silk in its architecture, including foregoing carpet for silk. There are bugs and caterpillars on the inn walls. There is a distinct lack of metal.

## Trivia

* Because Unseelie insect shifters and fae are considered so harmless, the Seelie do not mind Gevtivar being so close to the Seelie heartlands, despite its mainly Unseelie population.
* Mosk remembers the village with particular fondness, and said it reminds him of the Aur forest. Gwyn also liked Gevtivar.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 3 - The Ice Plague.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 19 November 2020. https://archiveofourown.org/works/26266345/chapters/67599242. Chapter 7: Bad Habits.
2. ↑ not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 3 - The Ice Plague.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 5 November 2020. https://archiveofourown.org/works/26266345/chapters/66966274. Chapter 6: Intrusions.