Winter Realms of Faerie

The Winter Realms of The Feywild are lands of silence, sorrow, and the slow, cold breath of endings. They represent the final part of the great cycle—the moment after the last leaf has fallen, when the world holds still, and grief crystallizes into purpose. These realms are not merely cold in temperature, but in temperament: places where laughter echoes too long, where beauty wears a veil of frost, and where vengeance waits in stillness like a blade buried in snow. Within the Winter Realms, time seems to stretch and memory lingers like ice on stone. They are domains of sorrowful grace, still justice, and revenge served with elegance and cruelty alike.   Presiding over all the Winter Realms is Queen Mab, the Queen of Air and Darkness, the sovereign of fear, frost, and inevitability. Her presence is rarely seen directly, but always felt—an unspoken pressure in the air, a glint of moonlight that wasn't there before, a shadow that knows too much. Queen Mab rules the Unseelie Court, which includes both the Winter and Autumn Courts, not through affection or loyalty, but through power, paranoia, and punishment. No voice speaks against her without consequence. Her reach extends into every court, with spies and whisper-collectors tucked among the nobility and the common fey alike. Even an idle complaint can find its way back to the Queen, and those who speak her name without reverence may find their lips sealed in frost forevermore. In the Winter Realms, the snow does not simply fall—it listens.