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The Feywilds
World · A world with a strange edge
The Feywilds
Every road leads where someone owes you.
Overview
The Feywilds is a realm where every road follows an obligation. A promise can open a mountain pass, while a careless gift may make a stranger your creditor for life. Seasonal courts claim authority over the old customs, but villages, wandering households, and mortal visitors interpret them differently. Its beauty is real, its dangers are social as often as physical, and even a simple journey can decide who owes whom.
The world
ShapeA world with a strange edge
What it is likeA realm whose regions are joined by promises, customs, and shared purpose rather than fixed distances; its map changes as obligations change.
How people travelTravelers follow a road by naming their destination and agreeing on why they seek it; roads can shift when a promise is fulfilled or disputed.
Themes
Mythic bargains, Wonder with consequences, Fey court intrigue, Lost time
Laws of the world
The rules
MagicMagic answers to words, gifts, and obligations; a promise made freely carries more force than any spell.
TechnologyMost folk use medieval tools and craft, though fey artisans shape living wood, woven light, and enchanted metal.
Death and soulsThe dead become part of the land unless someone remembers them by their true name; fey may bargain for that name, but cannot compel it.
Special rules
Food accepted as a gift creates a debt unless the giver says otherwise.
A road opens when its travelers share a purpose, and may close when that purpose is fulfilled.
The skies
SkiesThe sky holds a bright sun and a large pale moon; both sometimes appear low enough to touch from a hilltop.
Moons and stars
The Hearth Moon, The Far Sun
SeasonsSeasons belong to the courts rather than the calendar, and a night spent in one region may equal a year elsewhere.
Ages
4 agesA broken treaty has left routes unreliable, old debts disputed, and mortal visitors caught between rival claims.
Powers
4 powers · 2 conflictsPowers
- The Summer CourtSeasonal courtReach: Claims the sunlit regions and many of the main paths.Enforce hospitality customs and extend its influence over every recognized road.
- The Winter CourtSeasonal courtReach: Holds the cold regions and the records of formal bargains.Collect unpaid promises and restrict travel until old accounts are settled.
- The Hedge HousesFey householdsReach: Scattered communities throughout the realm.Keep local customs independent of court law and protect household lands.
- The Wayfarers' LeagueMortal associationReach: Mortals and their allies at the realm's few dependable crossings.Recover missing people and years, while opening stable routes for mortal trade.
Conflicts
- The Guest Right DisputeSidesWhoever defines guest right can decide which travelers are protected and which may be claimed as payment.
The Summer Court, The Winter Court, Independent fey households
- The Missing YearsSidesMortals want their stolen years restored, while the collectors insist those years were freely promised.
Mortal wayfarers, Fey collectors
Atlas
10 regionsSecrets
Secret 1 · GM only
Secret 2 · GM only
Secret 3 · GM only
Plot hooks
4 hooks- 1The Years on LoanRescueA village asks the party to retrieve its stolen years before the children who lost them grow old overnight.
- 2Road Without an EndInvestigationA safe road has vanished after its last traveler fulfilled a promise, stranding a wedding party between regions.
- 3The Guest RightIntrigueBoth courts offer rewards for a missing treaty, but each gives a different account of what it says.
- 4One Name for AllMoral choiceA mortal envoy offers to settle every old debt at once, though the price is the village's shared name.
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