The Unseelie Court

- The Unseelie Court stretches over half of the feywild, little splotches of midnight among the sea of sunlight. Not every piece of Unseelie land is shriveled and dying, but many are bogs, swamps, and wastelands. Any ‘healthy’ plains or forests touched by the Unseelie have been twisted in some fashion, everything in the area being poisonous, carnivorous or some other atrocity. This is to reflect the corruption within the ruler of the Court, the Queen of Air and Darkness. Like ‘light’ does not necessarily mean ‘good’, ‘dark’ does not mean ‘evil’. Many of the Unseelie are sequestered in their own affairs or Domains with the Queen being everywhere and nowhere within them. The Unseelie Court is as varied as the Spring Court, and even more so with its influx of non fey denizens. Many of these live scattered amongst the different factions, but the first lives at the Queen’s side in the Onyx Labyrinth.

The Unseelie Court is commonly insighting mischief with the Seelie Court, but despite popular belief, rarely begins the violence between the courts. They will play the game until the rules are changed, and then they’ll be better at it.

Land examples: bogs, swamps, forests, plains, mountains

[independent, vindictive, capricious, cunning, tenacious, welcoming]

* Set up more like a mafia than a court, the Unseelie are composed of different factions of fey, each subset having their own seat on the Queen’s Gloaming Court, referred to as a Paroxys. The Winter King and the Autumnal Monarch sit on her right and left hand respectively. The Queen speaks mostly through her Consort, generally a being from a different realm who has been warped by the feywilds magic to adhere to the world.
* The unseelie has the largest quota for non fey folk, the Seelie purists and assholes. But they do not welcome everyone. An individual needs to exhibit skill, potential, and most importantly fear to be brought into the fold. Earning their favor among unaligned fey is rare, mortals even more so. But it does happen.

* The Unseelie fey do not serve ‘functions’ in the same way the Seelie do. Many of the factions simply exist to their own whims, held together with thin threads of their Queen’s influence. There are squabbles constantly between members of the court and it is the charge of their handlers to keep them ‘in line’. Which mostly just means don’t piss off your representative.
* The Unseelie lands stretch over half of the feywild, little splotches of midnight among the sea of sunlight. Not every piece of Unseelie land is shriveled and dying, but many are bogs, swamps, and wastelands. Any ‘healthy’ plains or forests touched by the Unseelie have been twisted in some fashion, everything in the area being poisonous, carnivorous or some other atrocity. These small Domains of Delight are all held by Paroyxs, though there are some that exist outside of the Queen’s chosen archfey.

* There are only three proper ‘cities’ in the Domains of Delight that the Queen of Air and Darkness claims in her court. The Onyx Labyrinth is her Domain and seat of power. The Cliffkeep at Copse Maere is in the Autumn Domain, currently headed by the Morrigan. The Winter Domain has the Crystal City and has the densest population out of the civilizations. Nearly all the Winter court lives within its walls. The Onyx Labyrinth is the least populated.

* There are spaces in between domains that unincorporated fey live in. To enter a domain, you need to offer the domain’s Ley Shaper a gift. The Unseelie are the harshest critics of gifts or sleights.

* The Unseelie Court hoards information like no one’s business. Most factions are involved in some kind of subterfuge. While the majority of the factions and Courts do not need to interact, there are cross sections of their activities when it comes to their use to the Queen and her purposes.