Geletulth (Harengon, Fairies)

**Planet Name: Geletulth**

**Races on the Planet: Fairies and Harengon**

**Capitol: Eska Firvain**

**Environmental Landscape: Stormy waters, wind swept plains, and darkened marshes**

**Political Landscape:**

The two defining factions who occupy Geletulth are the fey and the Shadowfell. The Fey form an efficient command structure honed through centuries of eternal war while the Shadowfell hordes are led by a scattering of elite fey who have been kidnapped and corrupted by the Shadowfell’s creeping taint.

**Leader:**

The Fey are led by Rolshanna an 80 year old Harengon who came up the ranks fighting on the frontlines and has been an effective if brutal general. He is known to crack down on any sign of the taint quickly and thoroughly. Their opposition, the shadowfell, is led by an immortal; Zenxis the first corrupted fairy.

**Culture:**

The fey presence of Geletulth is purely military. Though some fey are born and live their lives here most are merely passing through on tours of duty to hold back their dimensional opposites and prevent them gaining access to the planar rift. Life in the Fey armies of Geletulth is harsh with little tolerance for hesitation or error. All present on the planet are expected to fight and fight well in the never ending efforts to hold off the seemingly endless hordes.

All who serve on Geletulth witness horrors never intended for mortal minds and those who return are changed, leaving them bitter and hardened or broken and adrift.

**Demography & Population:**

A bare trickle of births is seen in Geletulth as a warzone is an unusual place to have a child. Many of the warriors are Harengon and Fairy’s two species of fey that have taken a liking to the mortal plane but the rest of the ranks are filled out with the full range of Fey species.

**Foreign Relations:**

Due to the threat, the forces of the shadowfell represent, the fey maintain orbital battle stations around Geletulth and any unauthorised spaceship approaching the planet is assumed to be of hostile intent and planning to smuggle Shadowfell forces off world. Even authorised ships are only allowed to land at Eska Firvain in the heart of the Fey’s power. A ship that goes anywhere where it could even possibly pick up the taint of the shadowfell will be hunted and destroyed.

**Military:**

The fey armies have extensive military build-up. Since the advent of space travel, they’ve traded otherwise incredibly difficult to acquire resources from the fey wild in return for stocks of tech and weapons while learning how to create more themselves. The fey armies are in possession of some of the most advanced magitech in the solar systems. Rather than the battle lines of old, the modern battle fields of Geletulth are dominated by machines of war and magical workings of a grand scale. The destruction spread by these tools has turned the twilight band of Geletulth into a pitted wasteland.

The primary mechanised core of the Fey armies are supplemented by well equipped hunter squads who track and destroy and traces of shadowfell taint which make it past the front lines.

The final core element of their military is the space force. A series of orbital stations is maintained around the planet with each one hosting squads of interceptor craft that enforce the planetary quarantine.

**Religion:**

The fey are a godless folk. Figures of magic who hail from a plane beyond our reality, the fey have little use for the mortal gods. However, some who make their way to other parts of the systems pick up the religious customs of the mortal races.

**Agriculture & Industry:**

Agricultural and industrial works are near non-existent on Geletulth. Food is exclusively shipped in to avoid the risk of it becoming tainted while manufacturing is more easily done outside of a warzone. Due to this the minimum industry to keep things maintained is run on plant while the rest lies beyond the rift.

**Trade & Transport:**

The ocean currents of Geletulth have their strongest surface flows that lead back into fey territory making sailing them a perilous proposition at best when combined with the frequent storms. Said storms make air travel difficult as well so most of the fey armies logistics are conducted via an extensive network of railways. Maglev trains provide incredibly fast transfer of large amounts of goods with smaller road networks branching out from rail hubs to supply the unending needs of their army. Technological advances have left this system largely automated with central servers in the capital coordinating the monolithic undertaking.

**Infrastructure:**

As mentioned above, the Fey’s primary infrastructure is dedicated to their military. This starts with the extensive rail network and roads at the rail hubs which supply the extensive fortifications they’ve built over thousands of years. However they also maintain a network of orbital stations to enforce the planetary quarantine.

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# Detailed information:

## Advent of the shadowfell commanders

The denizens of the shadow fell are largely mindless. The nature of the plane saps the soul and dulls the mind leaving only hunger in its wake. However, the situation on Geletulth has given rise to a unique series of individuals over time, the shadowfell generals. As creatures of magic who shift with the seasons and their environment Fey are particularly vulnerable to the taint of the shadowfell. Zenxis the scarred was one of the first high generals to lead the Fey. She was a warrior of near unparalleled might in her time. In an effort to end the threat of the shadowfell before it could overrun them, she led a strike force deep into the dark side of the planet seeking the shadowfell rift intent on closing it. This proved to be a fatal mistake; the dark side of Geletulth was soaked in the shadowfell’s influence which seeped into the corruptible fey. This foreign influence killed all but Zenxis, she alone was strong enough to partially resist its creeping influence. Though this proved to be more curse than blessing. Strong enough to keep her mind intact enough to think she was still vulnerable to the changes it wrought. Twisting her perceptions and filling her with cruel desires Zenxis now serves as the shadowfell’s immortal general, and is ever hungry and intent on escaping Geletulth to feed on the bounties of the galaxy.

## Creation of the rifts

Little is understood about rifts or what forms them, though they are known too usually be short lived. Geletulths tidal locked state proved an exception to this, creating conditions prime for rifts and maintaining them over a period of millennia. This led to the creation of the two great rifts which scientists theorise could only have been destabilised by disrupting the planets orbits. Now having existed for thousands of years, the rifts have warped reality around them becoming self-sustaining as they alter reality to support their existence. It is believed they will outlive the planet itself.