The Feywar

Redirect to:

* Feywild
Not long ago a number of nations around Randore decided it would be a good idea to try and go to war against the fey. It was not.

## The Fey and the Feywild

The Feywild is a land that exists close to Randore, but is hard to reach. It can be accessed by magical means, but also through way-lines, breakpoints and Rabbit-holes. These portals can be found all around Randore, and lead to different places through the Feywild.

It is thought that the Feywild might be the original home of the Elves, although none are sure of this except perhaps the first elves. The natives of the Feywild are varied and as diverse as Randore itself. But the main occupants are the Eladrin Elves.

It is a land of wonders and terrors, vast jungles, swamps, floating mountains, endless planes and much more.

### Traveling to and from the Feywild

While the exact specifics are a mystery, much like the case with all things fey, there are a number of known ways to get to and from the Feywild.

However, the most interesting aspect is the way the feywild can be used to travel great distances in a shorter time. Because the portals that connect our two worlds are scattered about the world randomly one could enter the feywild in one place on the east of Bacland, ride for a day or so, and exit on the south western side.

#### Way-lines

Way lines are specific sights that are linked magically to the feywild. They usually require some action to activate. anything as vague as drinking form a cup, or as specific as falling asleep as the sun goes down on a winters night.

#### Breakpoints

Breakpoints are entire regions in which the barrier between the feywild and our world is thin. These are often, but not always forests and come to be the resting place of Druids. One example is the White Woods in the north of Bacland (where Drenn's from).

Oftentimes these places make it easier to access the Feywild through spells, scrolls, Travelers Tea, or other means. Sometimes, people who are lost will wonder into the feywild by mistake. When this happens getting back can prove tricky.

#### Rabbit-holes

These are the simplest form of travel between the two worlds, they are also call Dimention Doors. They are perminantly open passageways between our two worlds. For example one might fall into a rabbit hole and find themselves in the feywild. Most of the times these can simply be stepped back into.

Common Rabbit-holes include; caves, ditches, ponds and lakes, doors without walls, walls without doors, pits of quicksand and of course, Rabbit holes and burrows.

## Intro to the Feywar

The year was 20,113. The last war was a distant memory in the minds of Humans, and the wiser (or at least older) elves were busy with their own affairs to caution human kings and queens.

The Feywild wasn't new. It had been around since the beginning, whatever that was. But it was always unexplored, a strange place that you told your children about so they didn't run off in the woods or follow strangers. They had been a few expeditions into it, the more plucky adventurer's had been using it as a shortcut for twenty thousand years.

The last great discovery for explorers was ten thousand years ago, half of all history and far enough back that even to the high elves it seemed like ancient history. So, an idea was hatched. If we had sailed to all of Randore, and the lands to the far south were out of reach, why not go where none had gone in force before.

While war was not where this started, it was where it would end up.

## Exploring Fever

For around three years of time their was a great interests in exploring the Feawild. People went through in droves and their was a great hunt to find all the portals to it. Maps were being drawn of it, as well as one can draw an always changing landscape.

More and more people came through the feywid, using it like a great highway to ease them from long journeys.

After a while, the amount of travelers going through was causing problems for the native fey.

They were initially very polite about it. Taking every courtesy and ensuring that we had every chance to leave the feywild alone of our own accord. Eventually they became more insistent. It was only a few months after they started creating blockades that nations began going to war.

## Years war

In the year 20,117 The Daswer accord and Katos declared war on the fey. They were backed by many nations and other smaller peoples. For 12 months, to the day, the nations pored soldiers into the feywild.

It seemed like the forces of Randore were winning, the Eladrin and other fey kept moving further back form the rabbit holes that were bringing Randore forces in.

Bases were built, section of jungle cleared and further infantry bought in to expand further into the feywild.

## The Sundering

It was then that all the portals to the feywild closed. It's not clear how this was done, but it was an intentional decision by at least some of the Fey. They would stay closed for two years.

With the feywild cut off from the natural world there was a huge number of effects throughout Randroe. Animals were feral, plants grew twisted or not at all, some areas lime the Rotted Woods (formally the black woods) are still recovering.

This unease in the natural world stayed for two years. Until, in the autumn of 20,119 the ill effects started to stop. Druids knew once again that the feywild was open to Randore. However their were two further tricks that had been played on those who thought to try and conquer it.

First of all, the locations of all the Rabbit-holes and way-lines had moved, shrouding the Feywild, again, in mystery.

The second effect became apparent as survivors began to return to our world. While two years had past for those in Randore, much longer had gone past for those who had been left in the Feywild. Some had aged 5 years, others 10, 20 or even 30 years.

## After effects

The Five years that have passed since the Feywar have seen more new and relocated Rabbit-holes being reported, and safely left alone.

It was over the first six months that those who were going to return form the feywild did return. Many were lost, and those who came back were scared enough of the Feywild that most folks have sworn off messing with the fey.