Fae

The Fae are a race originating from the burgundy planet, a blood equivalent of the green sun and home base of free will!Lady Igneous. the burgundy planet is an enormous world. for whatever reason, invisible portals to random places around the multiverse pop up often on the burgundy planet.

## Anatomy & Physiology

the Fae are seperated into four "courts" (subspecies). what all these courts have in common is that their strength waxes and wanes with the seasons, being at their strongest durng their respective season. also they all have wings, can shapeshift (they can turn into pretty much anything, but its a skill) and have tusks.
the courts also have something to do with the progression of seasons on the burgundy planet and any worlds connected to it via portals.

### Winter Fae

winter Fae have white feathers for hair, pastel skin that ranges from mint to a bluer purple and black eyes. they have bird like wings and control over snow and ice. winter Fae can only feel warmth while shapeshifted. winter Fae slowly get stronger through the fall, peaking at midwinter. the power increased by this is primrily magical, with physical strength being secondary.

### Spring Fae

spring Fae have flowers for hair, which blossom when they are most powerful. the skin of a spring Fae can be almost any color, as long as its at least vaugely associated with spring. their eyes are the same color as the flowers that make up their hair. spring Fae have control over plants, this power getting stronger along with the rest of them during the spring, starting at midwinter and peaking at the end of spring. spring Fae are primaily phyically strong during spring, with magical strength being secondary. they also have buglike wings.

### Summer Fae

summer Fae have hair for hair and batlike wings, both of these being black. their skin is always a bright, saturated shade, anywhere from red to lime. their eyes are white, and turn black on ghosts. they control heat and light, and are supernaturally warm. this works like the inverse of winter Fae's thing. summer Fae are strongest during the summer, getting stronger all through spring and peaking at midsummer. this strength is primarily magical, with physical strength being secondary

### Fall Fae

fall Fae have leaves for hair. these leaves are green most of the year (allowing for photosynthesis) but go through a temporary 'death' state during the fall, when the Fae is most powerful. fall Fae have buglike wings. their skin can be any color that dead leaves can be, and their eyes change color with their hair. fall Fae have no powers other than shapeshifting. they are strongest during the fall, and this is the only time they can access the stored energy from photosynthesis. fall Fae are primarily physically strong during the fall. due to the stored energy from photosynthesis, they dont need to eat during this time period. fall Fae get stronger starting in midsummer and peaking at the end of fall.

## Society & culture

each court (subspecies) has its own court (nation-state). these courts (nation-state) are monarchies, ruled by a queen.

changelings are a thing. in this context, they're baby Fae chaged out for an infant of another species with a glamour applied. glamours dont last forever, but by the time it wears off the changeling is probably already subconsiously shapeshifted to look like their host species.

the role of Fae queen is genderless; the current queen of a given court is simply the most magically powerful individual within it.

as babies, Fae are taken away from their parents and raised communally to ensure a perfectly meritocratic society. very few know their parents, and even fewer as their parents.

though fae society markets itself as perfectly meritocratic, it exiles its disabled. if its discovered when the fae is a baby, a glamer is applied to them and theyre changed out for the child of another sapient species. by the time the glamer wears off, the changeling child will have already subconsiously shapeshifted to match the glamer.

if its discovered/originates when the fae is an adult, the disabled fae is just forced off the burgundy planet in a specially built spacecraft

fae society, despite being on a planet that is covered in naturally occuring portals to other inhabited planets, is incredibly isolationist.