Same. Dresden helps me depict the fey in my games as just a bit strange and often dangerous. One of my players has a fey patron who I've modeled off of Lea, and she frightens the party more than monsters they normally face.
The way I take the "mirror" element of the Feywild is that places are mirrored by association rather than by physical location. In the example of the ruins being associated with the fay lords castle, should the ruins be cleared away and druids took it over and made it a grove. The Faylord still has their castle and it's in the same place within the Faywild, but a natural portal from the grove to the Faywild would no longer take you to the castle, but put you in a Faywild forest.
This is really cool, my players have chosen centaurs and satyrs and goblins for their characters. I was like “okay we’re gonna need a backstory that pulls you all out of the feywild” Then I thought, “or we could just have a feywild campaign”, and I didn’t realize there wasn’t already a complete setting 😱 this is perfect timing!
Wild Beyond the Witchlight has been so much fun! I recommend Legends of Avantris if you want to watch a version of it play out. They're heavy on roleplay in a really fun way.
If you ever decide to bundle up your homebrew Feywild setting and sell it on DM's Guild or Drive Thru RPG (please please please…) i would 100% buy that.
Thank you so much for making this series! I've been playing a campaign for a few months, and my DM and I decided to expand upon my character by making her a fey wanderer ranger at level 3 and giving her the fey lost background. She doesn't remember all the details of her time in the Feywild (to explain why I hadn't been playing her that way the whole time). This series has been super helpful for me to better understand the Feywild!
in my homebrew setting the only planes i've kept similar to how they are in the sourcebooks are the feywild and shadowfell, so this series could actually be pretty helpful to me. normally i like creating every part of the world from scratch, but the feywild plays on classic tropes that players love to recognize. btw not exactly dnd related but the world of lorwyn from the game magic the gathering is an interesting spin on a fairy realm that you might want to look into for inspiration, it's got lots of cool worldbuilding
I’ll check it out, thanks! And I totally get the classic feywild love - my players just assumed that “not telling the fey your name” was a thing so I just went with it!
Been home brewing a completely unique fey setting ever since seeing Dimension20s A Court of Fey and Flowers so it was fun hearing about the sourcebook/sorta canon 5e feywild setting.
Enjoyed the video. I’m doing a modified version of wild Beyond the witchlight for a higher level party soon. Resources I’d recommend: Mr Rhexx has a lore video on the feywild, and a few others that mention it. Also, Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series has a lot of overlapping lore with D&D, and deals a lot with faeries, and can help with understanding the morality of fey.
Perfect timing of this video. I've recently started running my first ever campaign and a big theme of it revolves around the Feywild and fey crossings. Can't wait to see more from this series to help me better understand the worldbuilding of the realm and key figures!
4:31 It could cause changes both to locations on either side or to the connection between the locations or both at the same time. 5:15 Think more alternative morality then outright good or evil. What's good or evil to a fey might differ from what we might think of as in either category. And the other way around too of course. They live in a totally different universe with different rules and constraints. Time, space and emotions all different.
A note about a fey lord's castle possibly moving, 5e is the edition in which we get The Feywild as a plane, and before that Titania's court traveled between three outer planes (Ysgard, Arborea, and the Beastlands). So, definitely possible, at least for a very powerful fey.
Another more good source for dnd feywild stuff that I recommend is the 4e supplement Heroes of the Feywild book. It is very much different mechanically from 5e BUT the lore there is great to use for jumping off points. And also 3rd party stuff like Kobold Press' Courts of the Shadow Fey, The River King, and their monster book the first Tome of Beasts has many many fey creatures and Archfey.
The more I think about it the feywild time has to move faster. I assume that's how the Raven Queen was able to send people into the future was by holding them in the shadow fell and letting the material time speed passed. Having all three plans function on a spectrum of time.
I like the idea that the feywild overlaps the material world but that it's ruled by a certain seasons at certain times completely. You could have the material world's winter have the Winter Court consists of the entirety of the feywild either lasting only 12 days before another shift or 2 years, depending on if you want time to move faster or slower in the feywild. If it's structured like this the adventurers would have to time their departure and end up burning through 3 months in 12 days, or barely be gone anytime at all but have to wait in the material world for the right moment. Kind of working these around the solstice would be kind of cool. PS Leaving a comment is very intimidating, considering your specialty. Grammar is not my best subject. I hope this is somewhat coherent. Please be kind.
I'm sure your call on Seelie and Unseelie is already made, but what I learned is: Seelie is a descriptor for fae whom obey a code of behavior and will typically honor its use by others. Often a set of convoluted rules wrapped around courtly behavior. If mortals know the rules and play along with them, the distinction of the Seelie fey is that they will be more favorable to those whom play along with that code of behavior... or will find clever and praise those whom know how to play the game... even if they are mortal. Given the perception that they are 'genteel', it makes them easier to negociate with and that can make them more approachable. But flounder in that environment, and then you're target for ridicule or worse. The distinction of the Unseelie is that they don't play by those rules. They're "ungentlemanly", "mannerless savages", so on and so forth. What makes the Unseelie further into the dangerous territory is that they are much more unfiltered by their insouciance for social mores, far more inclined to might makes right, and have little reason to consider mortals are more than "oh look, a new toy just walked by - let's go play with it!" supplemented with the potential "Oh, it broke. No biggie! There's more where it came from! Kyahahaha!" So, the typical mortal will have the preference to deal with Seelie courts, because then they are some manner of leverage or more tangible way of interacting with them. A Seelie faerie could just just as careless about the value of a human life, but seeing the human play tricks, talk the same way 'real people' talk, might still encourage an entertained Seelie faerie to hand it the proverbial bone if he or she was well entertained. Or it could be a question of pride to not stop to the level of the Unseelie/look the part of peerage/and give the singing toad of a human free passage through your territory instead of turning it into a flower pot.
Just started the video but I recently heard there is other sources mentioning the different courts such as seelie and unseelie and the seasonal courts. Mostly I’ve been trying to research the season courts for a character I’m working on.
Oh hell yeah, I've always had trouble worldbuilding the Feywild in comparison to the prime material plane, this will be really helpful for me!
Nice!! I’m so psyched to hear it!
this is going to come great for my "you are a bunch of children lost in the feywild" campaing idea I have
One of my biggest inspirations for the feywild is the novel series The Dresden Files, but I am super excited to binge through this playlist!
Same. Dresden helps me depict the fey in my games as just a bit strange and often dangerous. One of my players has a fey patron who I've modeled off of Lea, and she frightens the party more than monsters they normally face.
The way I take the "mirror" element of the Feywild is that places are mirrored by association rather than by physical location. In the example of the ruins being associated with the fay lords castle, should the ruins be cleared away and druids took it over and made it a grove. The Faylord still has their castle and it's in the same place within the Faywild, but a natural portal from the grove to the Faywild would no longer take you to the castle, but put you in a Faywild forest.
This is really cool, my players have chosen centaurs and satyrs and goblins for their characters. I was like “okay we’re gonna need a backstory that pulls you all out of the feywild”
Then I thought, “or we could just have a feywild campaign”, and I didn’t realize there wasn’t already a complete setting 😱 this is perfect timing!
Wild Beyond the Witchlight has been so much fun! I recommend Legends of Avantris if you want to watch a version of it play out. They're heavy on roleplay in a really fun way.
@@feywildfiend I definitely will, I’m currently just obsessed with Brennan Lee mulligan’s twisted mind lol
If you ever decide to bundle up your homebrew Feywild setting and sell it on DM's Guild or Drive Thru RPG (please please please…) i would 100% buy that.
Thank you so much for making this series! I've been playing a campaign for a few months, and my DM and I decided to expand upon my character by making her a fey wanderer ranger at level 3 and giving her the fey lost background. She doesn't remember all the details of her time in the Feywild (to explain why I hadn't been playing her that way the whole time). This series has been super helpful for me to better understand the Feywild!
in my homebrew setting the only planes i've kept similar to how they are in the sourcebooks are the feywild and shadowfell, so this series could actually be pretty helpful to me. normally i like creating every part of the world from scratch, but the feywild plays on classic tropes that players love to recognize. btw not exactly dnd related but the world of lorwyn from the game magic the gathering is an interesting spin on a fairy realm that you might want to look into for inspiration, it's got lots of cool worldbuilding
I’ll check it out, thanks! And I totally get the classic feywild love - my players just assumed that “not telling the fey your name” was a thing so I just went with it!
Been home brewing a completely unique fey setting ever since seeing Dimension20s A Court of Fey and Flowers so it was fun hearing about the sourcebook/sorta canon 5e feywild setting.
I have not watched that campaign yet, so this will definitely be outside their influence!
@@feywildfiend its really great and captures the vibes, but yeah different from standard 5e feywild stuff.
Wow - glad I came across this. I'm just starting a mini-campaign set in the Feywild (for characters level 4 to hopefully about 8).
Enjoyed the video. I’m doing a modified version of wild Beyond the witchlight for a higher level party soon.
Resources I’d recommend: Mr Rhexx has a lore video on the feywild, and a few others that mention it.
Also, Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series has a lot of overlapping lore with D&D, and deals a lot with faeries, and can help with understanding the morality of fey.
Perfect timing of this video. I've recently started running my first ever campaign and a big theme of it revolves around the Feywild and fey crossings. Can't wait to see more from this series to help me better understand the worldbuilding of the realm and key figures!
That’s so exciting! I hope this series helps a lot.
4:31
It could cause changes both to locations on either side or to the connection between the locations or both at the same time.
5:15
Think more alternative morality then outright good or evil.
What's good or evil to a fey might differ from what we might think of as in either category.
And the other way around too of course.
They live in a totally different universe with different rules and constraints.
Time, space and emotions all different.
A note about a fey lord's castle possibly moving, 5e is the edition in which we get The Feywild as a plane, and before that Titania's court traveled between three outer planes (Ysgard, Arborea, and the Beastlands). So, definitely possible, at least for a very powerful fey.
Liked this video, just posting for the algorithm. Keep it up!
Lol thanks! I appreciate it!
This series is underrated
Looking forward to the next part, this is way more enjoyable than reading about the feywild myself
I so appreciate that!
I'm literally so obsessed with the feywild, ty sm for doing this series 🥺
I love it, thank YOU!
Hexblooded might be very interesting too!
Another more good source for dnd feywild stuff that I recommend is the 4e supplement Heroes of the Feywild book. It is very much different mechanically from 5e BUT the lore there is great to use for jumping off points.
And also 3rd party stuff like Kobold Press' Courts of the Shadow Fey, The River King, and their monster book the first Tome of Beasts has many many fey creatures and Archfey.
That’s really helpful! I intend to start looking into other source editions a bit more, that gives me a starting point.
The more I think about it the feywild time has to move faster. I assume that's how the Raven Queen was able to send people into the future was by holding them in the shadow fell and letting the material time speed passed. Having all three plans function on a spectrum of time.
I like the idea that the feywild overlaps the material world but that it's ruled by a certain seasons at certain times completely. You could have the material world's winter have the Winter Court consists of the entirety of the feywild either lasting only 12 days before another shift or 2 years, depending on if you want time to move faster or slower in the feywild. If it's structured like this the adventurers would have to time their departure and end up burning through 3 months in 12 days, or barely be gone anytime at all but have to wait in the material world for the right moment. Kind of working these around the solstice would be kind of cool.
PS
Leaving a comment is very intimidating, considering your specialty. Grammar is not my best subject. I hope this is somewhat coherent. Please be kind.
I'm sure your call on Seelie and Unseelie is already made, but what I learned is:
Seelie is a descriptor for fae whom obey a code of behavior and will typically honor its use by others. Often a set of convoluted rules wrapped around courtly behavior. If mortals know the rules and play along with them, the distinction of the Seelie fey is that they will be more favorable to those whom play along with that code of behavior... or will find clever and praise those whom know how to play the game... even if they are mortal. Given the perception that they are 'genteel', it makes them easier to negociate with and that can make them more approachable. But flounder in that environment, and then you're target for ridicule or worse.
The distinction of the Unseelie is that they don't play by those rules. They're "ungentlemanly", "mannerless savages", so on and so forth. What makes the Unseelie further into the dangerous territory is that they are much more unfiltered by their insouciance for social mores, far more inclined to might makes right, and have little reason to consider mortals are more than "oh look, a new toy just walked by - let's go play with it!" supplemented with the potential "Oh, it broke. No biggie! There's more where it came from! Kyahahaha!"
So, the typical mortal will have the preference to deal with Seelie courts, because then they are some manner of leverage or more tangible way of interacting with them. A Seelie faerie could just just as careless about the value of a human life, but seeing the human play tricks, talk the same way 'real people' talk, might still encourage an entertained Seelie faerie to hand it the proverbial bone if he or she was well entertained. Or it could be a question of pride to not stop to the level of the Unseelie/look the part of peerage/and give the singing toad of a human free passage through your territory instead of turning it into a flower pot.
Just started the video but I recently heard there is other sources mentioning the different courts such as seelie and unseelie and the seasonal courts. Mostly I’ve been trying to research the season courts for a character I’m working on.
Great video
subscribed!!!
Awesome, thanks!
If someone tries to mess with the ruins strange things start to happen either to him or his workers cause the fey protekt their theritory.
Just can’t find you on instagram. Weird.
I am reaching out to interview you on my channel as I am also running Witchlight.
I don’t have an insta for the channel! Email feywildfiend@gmail.com
@literaryminimalist?
Great video