Fayheim

The Fayheim, also called the Plane of Faerie, is a land of soft lights and wonder, a place of music and death. It is a realm of everlasting twilight, with glittering faerie lights bobbing in the gentle breeze and fat fireflies buzzing through groves and fields. The sky is alight with the faded colors of an ever-setting sun, which never truly sets (or rises for that matter it remains stationary, dusky and low in the sky. Away from the settled areas ruled by the Muave that compose the Summer Court, the land is a tangle of sharp-toothed brambles and syrupy fens — perfect territory for the Dark to hunt their prey.   The Fayheim exists in parallel to the Material Plane, an alternate dimension that occupies the same cosmological space. The landscape of the Fayheim mirrors the natural world but turns its features into spectacular forms. Where a volcano stands on the Material Plane, a mountain topped with skyscraper-sized crystals that glow with internal fire towers in the Fayheim. A wide and muddy river on the Material Plane might be echoed as a clear and winding brook of great beauty. A marsh could be reflected as a vast black bog of sinister character. And moving to the Fayheim from old ruins on the Material Plane might put a traveler at the door of an archfey’s castle.   The Fayheim is inhabited by sylvan creatures, such as elves, dryads, satyrs, pixies, and sprites, as well as centaurs and magical creatures such as blink dogs, faerie dragons, treants, and unicorns. The darker regions of the plane are home to such malevolent creatures as hags, blights, goblins, ogres, and giants.   Mauve court and Dark Court   Two Rulers hold court in the Fayheim, and most fey owe allegiance to one or the other. Draumr Gætir and Summer Court lead the Mueve fey, Iloffi ruler of the Dark Court, leads the Dark fey.   Mauve and Dark do not directly correlate with good and evil, though many mortals make that equation. Many Muave fey are good, and many Dark are evil, but their opposition to each other stems from their queens’ jealous rivalry, not abstract moral concerns. Ugly denizens of the Fayheim, such as fomorians and hags, are almost never members of either court, and fey of independent spirit reject the courts entirely. The courts have warred at times, but they also compete in more-or-less friendly contests and even ally with one another in small and secret ways.