The Grove Part 7

## Episode 41 - The FeyWild West

In the morning, Talia Argent-Grey meets Elder Franya in the clearing as she arrives and spends her morning focusing on two separate headspaces. After having breakfast prepared for Jareth and Adrienne, Seline goes to the Lore Garden where Sylvaka is waiting. Seline tries to get out of receiving help but Sylvaka is undeterred. Firbolg are descended from the fey. The eladrin are the predecessors to the elves. When the prime material plane was rediscovered, there are many wars fought over who would hold it. Eladrin saw the damage that was being done to the world and bound themselves to it becoming the first firbolg. Sylvaka offers to tell Seline about the history they have on the fey including the feywilds recent re-connection to the prime material plane. Pixmer is an isolationist and isn't happy about the connection to the feywild. Asking about the night fey, the light shoots off in several directions in the garden indicating multiple relevant writings. Sylvaka reads from an old carving on one of the walls, the origin of the night court fey. They are the progeny of Ludomir Imbrium, the Moonlit King. They are the offspring of the Moonlit King and his wife, Sarastra Aestruum, the Queen of Night and Magic. Since their creation, they've spread and intermixed with other types of fey. There are five different types of seelie fey. Seelie fey are the more human/elf type fey. They are also probably the precursors to the eladrin. the types of fey are day, night, summer, winter, and autumn fey. However, the word for autumn also means spring because it's an in-between. Although there's been some intermixing between the types, day fey and night fey have not intermixed and neither have summer fey and winter fey. This has given rise to the concept of a summer winter day and night courts of the fey. Court in this context could mean an attendance of royalty or structure of a hierarchy or perhaps a jurisdiction. There are some intermixing between night fey and autumn fey. There is more common intermixing between night and winter fey. There are cities dominated by the night court or the winter court that are made out of ice. There's a city that only exists in shadow, if any light is cast on it directly it disappears. Some of the druids have been traveling into the feywild exploring. There are also passages speaking about Sarastra Aestruum either as wife of the Moonlight King or his daughter but never both at the same time. Trying to find out more about fey behavior Seline asks about the nature of fey. She's led to information about the flora of the feywild. There are plants that produce music to lure in people and eat the people. As well as sentient bogs that produce fairy lights to lure prey in. there is also a flower that when its petals are plucked and are scattered to the wind forms a tiny dancing figure for a few seconds before scattering to the ground. There are several plants and trees that talk to you also. There are glades where smaller fey-like pixies will make their homes and use their magic and the plants of the feywild to defend them. One of the defenses causes the intruder to dance until they die. The blue leaf oak trees are mentioned but only as mundane plants. There's a section of wall talking about fey behavior but it's noted that it needs more study. It is inscribed that fey nature is mischievous, endlessly curious. Minor fey are pixies, dixies and kelpies. They have a general sense of mischief and curiosity and a tendency to collect small and curious items. Seline explains she recently found out that she was a night fey and now she's a fey lord and she wants to know what that means. Seline finding out that things she likes are things that night fey are commonly predispositioned to like, changes how she feels and thinks about them. Sylvaka likes to garden and so do many firbolgs but because it is a common trait among firbolgs doesn't change how he feels about it. Seline counters that firbolgs are not destructive evil creatures. Sylvaka points out the druid/wizard in the origin of lycanthropy was a firbolg. Seline is attributing a lot of her negativity to her fey side and the good things she feels and does to her human side. Sylvaka points out he is also fey and doesn't feel the madness Seline has attributed to all fey. Seline brings up the fact that she tortured a prisoner to death because night fey delight in such things. She talks about how the Moonlit King delighted in pushing the children of his enemies out a window and Seline delighted with him. Sylvaka suggests that Seline might be blaming her night fey side for things that she did when the choices were hers alone. He also says that those around her will help her be better but she still got some growing to do and some things to change.

## Characters

### Players

* Seline Argent-Grey
* Talia Argent-Grey

### NPCs

* Jareth Argent-Grey
* Adrienne Argent-Grey
* Chief Elder Franya
* Sylvaka