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| Aryalómë |
Posted - 24 Feb 2011 : 03:45:17
My Drow story is currently kinda on hold at the moment, so I want to work on a story I like better. It's about a group of Tel-Quessir (a Star Elf sorcerer, a Sun Elf Mage, a Star Elf bard, a Moon Elf rogue, and an Avariel cleric of Aerdrie Faenya). Since Evermeet and Sildeyuir have been teleported to the realm of Faerie, I though it would be cool to make a story that took place in Faerie. And also re reconnection netween the Eladrin that didn't leave Faerie wth those thay did. Oh, and I'm adding a Sun Elf Ranger (archer style) to thw stry. The characters native to Faerie are the Star Elf sorceree and Sun Elf ar her. Again help outs, critiscism, etc.
P.S. I need to know te geographu of the Feywild, cities in it ad cities in Sildeyuie :) |
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| Quale |
Posted - 25 Feb 2011 : 08:01:10
For the winter queen you need this article
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/files/dragon/367/367_realmslore.pdf |
| Aryalómë |
Posted - 25 Feb 2011 : 02:58:53
Well, I was going more for a winter queen, actually. But maybe she could have a son that is the Winter Prince. I'm just trying to think of a main villaon for them. There are thwse people that live in the Faydark, so they might be a good choice. |
| Markustay |
Posted - 25 Feb 2011 : 02:52:25
I have every intention of mapping the Fæwyltt (which of course is in no way associated with WotC/Hasbro's 'Feywild'  ). I've been meaning to get back to Quale's thread, but I may just start my own.
What Quale did (I'm assuming) is build his Feywild as a mirror-plane to the Realms, with Faerie elements taking the place of the stuff in the 'real world' (or FR's real world, at any rate).
I've taken my idea of a VAST valley (as in a near-endless plane sized valley!) that looks for all the world like a massive caldera (the entirety is surrounding by impossibly large mountain ranges), and evolved it, based on some other bits I've been adding.
Now picture if you will, a caldera-looking valley with roughly the surface area of Jupiter, surrounding by mountains HUNDREDS of miles high (but they start-off normal size at the valley and get bigger as you get further from valley floor). The majority of the valley floor - aside from some areas on the perimeter that border the mountains - is an unbelievably large Silver Sea, filled with continent-sized islands.
And the islands represent worlds. 
It still has a mirroring effect with the real world, but more like a fun-house mirror, with everything being disproportionate. The regions that correspond closest to areas where humans dwell in the material world are only about 2/3 the size, but the ratio gets more and more skewed as you travel away from 'human thought' (which is considered like pollution to the fey). You go a few miles from where a human village ought to be and the scale is 1:2. At 50 miles its more like 1:3... and then 1:4, and 1:5, and so on. In the large land-less areas of the sea the scale could be 20:1 or more.
Its like walking down that hallway in the original Willie Wonka movie, where everything gets smaller and smaller, or like what happened to poor Alice when she fell down the rabbit hole.
In the center of it all lies Faerie, which just so happens to correspond to Abeir-Toril's original proto-continent. I suppose I could easily drop Quale's entire version right into that. Each world that contains sentient, thinking beings (that dream) has an island representing it (or several, actually - they are island chains that look very much like miniature versions of the world maps of various D&D settings and elsewhere). Also, some islands are more 'solid' then others, whereas some have begun to become almost ghost-like - the Fey avoid those realms. They represent worlds where the folks have stopped dreaming.
There is another world - the Felmere - that is very similar to the Fæwyltt, except that the islands lie in a misty shadow-sea.
From our world (or any material world), one would have to first enter what scholars sometimes refer to as the 'border ethereal'. It is the crossroads of worlds, the Mittlemarch, the 'wood between the worlds', The Ways... it has many names on many different worlds, but it is all the same realm. From there, one merely need travel 'up' towards the astral sea and the Fæwyltt, or 'down' toward the Umbral darkness of the Ethereal mists and the Felmere.
The truth is, you have never left your world; you have simply traveled along the path often not taken. You entered into a fourth-dimensional space and are moving into the world of dreams and fancies, of nightmares and old-wives tales.
You have just entered the Twilight Realms - eat not what you are offered, and take care what you drink, for behind every invitation and casual smile lies the inhuman whimsy of the Fey, and your gods cannot help you now.  |
| Chosen of Asmodeus |
Posted - 24 Feb 2011 : 12:33:00
I distinctly remember skimming over an article in dragon about the winter court and the prince of winter. Might want to look into it. |
| Aryalómë |
Posted - 24 Feb 2011 : 12:24:02
Tht's what I wanted to do with tye Noble Eladrin!!! The Sun Elf Noble would be summer, the Avariel Noble would be Winter and I'm not quite sure but I'm probavly gonna have the Star Elf for autumn and Moon Elf for spring. |
| Chosen of Asmodeus |
Posted - 24 Feb 2011 : 11:29:44
Granted I have only a cursory knowledge of the fey/noble eldran courts, but aren't they divided by season? Winter Court, Summer Court, etc? |
| Aryalómë |
Posted - 24 Feb 2011 : 11:23:34
Well he story takes place in FR so it knda makes since that it echoes parts of Faerun. The Eladrin that live are an extreme interest to me. I want to make four major Eladrin kingdoms. One for each subrace of Eladrin (iI'm considering Avariel to be Eladrin, so they're making up the fourth kingdom). And each kingdom has a Noble Eladrin heading it. Ok, slight , the Star Elf sorcerer is going to be native to Sildeyuir andthebard Faerie native. |
| Quale |
Posted - 24 Feb 2011 : 11:05:49
Well, I've finished the feywild geography for my world, it turned out anything but FR. Particularly the Yuir part and star elves was never inspiring. I went with slavic mythology (vilas, lesniks) for area, with more megalithic structures than stone circles, with lovecraftian elements (actually Machen's white people).
I'd love to see if MT or someone else continues or starts a similar thread. |
| Markustay |
Posted - 24 Feb 2011 : 06:03:01
We are working on it (or rather, Quale is, I just BS a LOT  ).
Check this thread out. |
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