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1/19/2019 The Homebrewery - NaturalCrit Gold dragons have the most love of fey among all dragonkind, in spite of the fey tendency towards mischief. Pixies are often Primordials found occupying the forests of gold dragons, and nixies and The primordials are ancient beings of elemental fury and naiads often inhabit the waters around their lairs. power. It was they who shaped the world in its earliest days. Leprechauns adore gold dragons for obvious reasons, and Now they lie dead or imprisoned, scattered throughout the many make their homes amid the dragon's hoard. Material Plane. The fey are creatures of wilderness, the life that was allowed to grow on the earth once the furious Old Ones madness of the ancient planet was quelled. They have little interest in the primordials, though they bear neither fear nor Though the old ones from beyond the world have little enmity toward them. In fact, the animus loci are among those interest in beauty and nature, some fey still forge unlikely primordials that chose not to fight against the gods, and they alliances with these inscrutable beings. linger as embodiments of the wilderness they adopted as homes. Dendar, the Night Serpent This goddess of the yuan-ti is a creature of darkness and intrigue. The Queen of Air and Darkness has something of an Undead alliance with this unknowable being, and she frequently The fey are closely associated with ghosts, specters, wraiths, entertains Dendar's nightmare speakers in her court. The banshees, and will-o-wisps. These spectral undead are a part Queen of the Gloaming Court often sends her agents to of the natural, results of lingering wrath, bitterness, or confound the cults of Sseth, the Sibilant Death, and of sorrow. Many fey ally or command these spirits as part of Merrshaulk, the other two primary dieties of the yuan-ti. their retinue. Some isolated cults of Dendar have even begun breeding Fey tend to have little interest in the corporeal undead, as meenlocks with the help of the fey as a way to further the most of these creatures are typically brutish and dull. spread of fear across the world. Creatures such as zombies and skeletons rarely attract the interest of the fey, being too stupid to trick. Some fey are served by wights of their former mortal servants. Mummies Neutral Parties are rarely given much thought, as the fey have little interest in religion. Vampires, liches, and other powerful undead are Fiends considered on an individual basis. Surprisingly, the fey typically hold little enmity toward devils. Some undead are expressions of pure destruction, such as Contrary to demons, which desire the destruction of all bodaks, the spawn of kyuss, and the dreaded atropals. These things, devils crave subjugation, particularly of the mortal undead are hated by the fey with a fierce passion, as their races. As such, devils typically have little interest in the fey foul influence can spread rapidly, blighting the land like a and the fey subsequently have little quarrel with devils. disease. The ravenous hunger of undead such as ghouls Some powerful fey even form temporary alliances with spreads slaughter and destruction, which the fey find devils. The Queen of Air and Darkness finds the scheming distasteful if out of their control. fiends to be a welcome addition to the intrigue of her Gloaming Court, and she often hosts emissaries of both Dispater and Glasya. The Prince of Frost finds the rigid adherence of devils to their orders to be a far more reliable than the fickle winter fey, and he has an ongoing relationship with Levistus. The fey are especially fond of the beautiful Erinyes, and the Queen of Air and Darkness often has an Erinyes residing in her court as a reward to that devil, participating in the Wild Hunt and other cruel sports at their leisure. Ultimately, however, devils are beings of civilization, while fey tend to favor the wild and free ranges of wilderness, and the two races rarely have much interaction. Old Ones Ghaunadaur That Which Lurks is an enemy of Lolth. The Queen of Air and Darkness, a fellow enemy of the Spider Queen, finds the Elder Eye to be a convenient ally in her war against the drow from time to time. However, the mad god of slimes is far too foul and insane to be beloved by the fey, so the Queen keeps her distance from it whenever she can. Ghaunadaur for its part seSampleems to be indifferent to the fey. file https://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/print/Sk-rhHngX4?dialog=true 11/205 11 1/19/2019 The Homebrewery - NaturalCrit The Feywild Alternative Cosmology The standard 5th edition cosmology describes the Feywild as The Bright Beauty a parallel plane to the Prime Material Plane. I offer an The Feywild is authenticity incarnate. It is the true alternative to that cosmology, wherein the Feywild is a nature of things laid bare. A beam of sunlight is distinct plane from the Prime Material Plane, though still heartbreakingly beautiful. A dark cavern is intrinsically bound to the Prime Material Plane. unbearably terrifying. All things are more raw and It is a plane that exists where the Prime Material Plane, true and immediate, the world written in big bold the Astral Plane, and the Plane of Dreams converge. It letters. It is akin to being a child again, wonderful and terrifying. reaches out to touch the Material Plane in a number of This quality has an interesting effect on mortals. places, some permanently some only during certain events Humanoids within the Feywild are more authentic such as lunar cycles or solstices. It also reaches outward to their true natures. Friends become lovers. from the Material Plane, stretching its fingers to touch the Rivalries become violent. A private man becomes a Inner and Outer Planes. These places are rare, however. hermit. An aggressive woman becomes wantonly This alternative cosmology allows for a wider variety of violent. both fey creatures and fey-related adventures. In this cosmology, the demesnes of Tír Naofa and Hagsend are not simply locations on Outer Planes, they are This allows for unification of the Feywild with fey oriented Chromatic Mold Chromatic mold is a subspecies of brown mold which feeds creatures that exist outside of the Material Plane, such as on magic rather than heat. It is most common in the unicorns, pech, nereids, sylphs. It allows for fey encounters Underdark, where it feeds on the standing faerzress anywhere, not simply in the Material Plane. It allows for the radiation, though it can also be found crusting powerful existence of Shadowfell oriented fey such as the shadar-kai. magical items. It typically covers a 10-foot square area. This also allows for ease of access for archfey patrons. In Under normal circumstances, chromatic mold is the standard cosmology, archfey are limited to a specific indistinguishable from brown mold. However, if exposed to geographic location. In this alternative model, any archfey can magical energy, such as that created by a spell or a faerzress access surge, it immediately begins to emit a hypnotic pattern of kaleidoscopic lights. Any creature within 30 feet of the mold Maze of Fathaghn that observes this pattern must make a DC 15 Wisdom Legend has it that at the center of the maze of Fathaghn is saving throw. On a failure, the creature is incapacitated and the Mother Oak, the tree from which all treants, dryads, and must use its turn to move toward the mold via the most direct even Oberon himself were born. However, the tree is guarded route possible. The creature can repeat the saving throw by a nearly impenetrable maze of trees and undergrowth whenever it takes damage. If a creature views the chromatic roamed at will by innumerable fey. mold with detect magic while the mold is dormant, they still see the kaleidoscopic pattern and must perform a DC 10 Murkendraw Wisdom saving throw. If a creature succeeds on its saving The Murkendraw is a swamp the size of an ocean, an endless throw, it is immune to the mold's kaleidoscopic pattern for 24 stretch of tangled trees and turgid mud, where alligators drift hours. silently amid the croaking of millions of toads. Strange things When the mold is touched or a creature casts a spell within live deep in the Murkendraw, illuminated by the ghost light of 10 feet of it, the nearest 5 foot patch of mold ejects a cloud of will-o-wisps. Hags lair on the outskirts while treants wade spores that extends in a 10 foot radius from that patch, through the waters near its center. unless the ambient temperature is extremely cold. Any creature in that area must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or become infected with its spores. An infected Features and Hazards creature loses 1 point of Constitution every 4 hours. Flora Additionally, the creature must perform a DC 12 Wisdom The Feywild is filled with all manner of plantlife, both saving throw at the end of each hour. On a failure, the magical and mundane. Every manner of normal plantlife can creature is affected as if with the confusion spell for the be found here, and plant monsters such as treants and duration of that hour. If a creature's Constitution is reduced shambling mounds are not uncommon. Dangerous to 1, it dies. When a creature dies while infected with supernatural plants and fungi such as the yellow musk chromatic mold spores, the spores consume its body, creeper (Tomb of Annihilation pg 237) and the timmask (Out producing a new patch of chromatic mold within 1d4 hours of the Abyss pg 23) grow in abundance in the verdant of the creature's death.

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