Faerie Current Background

The politics of Faerie are complex – befitting a largely immortal population who conduct their lives through webs of favour and counter-favour - and vary according to whose lands you are in. The constant thread is a tendency toward monarchies and other stable, single-leader arrangements. You will not find much in the way of parliaments here. Faerie politics is not for the unwary and you risk being used as an unwitting cat’s paw in another’s schemes if not very, very careful.

The Dance

They call the constant politicking and jostling for status, power and authority The Dance. All peoples of Faerie Dance in their own ways for it is part of their very nature. Part of this Dance is to never tell a lie if you can at all help it. You can dissemble, mislead, omit, embellish or nitpick to your heart’s content. Just not directly lie. Faerie agreements tend to the letter of the law and not the spirit, “I swear not to do you any harm” does not mean “I have to tell you that someone else poisoned your wine”…

The Queens of Faerie

Technically there are two rulers of all Faerie, the Queens of the Seelie and Unseelie courts. Currently Queen Athwen Brightblade rules the Seelie and thus the day. Queen Morgan rules the Unseelie and thus the night. The same lands are governed by differing rules and traditions by day and by night.

Local Lords and Monarchs

While almost all of Faerie acknowledge the Queens as the supreme rulers of Faerie, there are myriad different settlements, Dwarf holds, regions and peoples with their own leaders. These are sometimes even called Queen or King (although usually with something of a qualifying statement, Queen of the Dryads for example). This multitude of nobility make up the ever shifting Courts. To confuse things further, there are wild fae who hold only to their local lord. Chief amongst these is the Ard-Ri, King Finlay and his Silver Unicorn tribe who welcome those who feel apart from the courts.

Queen Mabdh

Long ago, an entire faction of the Faerie Courts were declared outcast – Formori, named for an ancient enemy – by the rulers of the time. They have taken their sentence as their name and harbour a burning desire for revenge upon the Courts. Queen of these Formori is Mabdh, as cunning and vicious a ruler as any could hope to avoid.