Seelie & Unseelie in Faerun

[Khairn]

IMC my players are in Cormyr, helping the Regent clean up after the Death of the Dragon. With the coming to an end of the Year of Wild Magic, and the arrival of the Year of the Rogue Dragon, the party is going to get caught up in events that involve the Seelie and Unseelie Courts. For with all the trouble that was caused by the ghazneth’s and other magical events over the past year, the Seelie & Unseelie Fey have been impacted to a great degree and now are forced to involve mortals in their affairs.

My questions involves these Fey and how they fit in with FR “Canon”, or how they might not fit.

What deities would the Fey follow, if any? The Elven Pantheon looks like a good choice, but what about the nature gods like Silvanus, Chauntea or Mielikki?

Would they live and have their Courts in a pocket “Fairey Realm” or perhaps live in the same realm as their deity?

Would there be some connection between the Unseelie and the Shadow Weave?

I’m trying to mine for idea’s so anything you would like to share would be greatly appreciated.

 

[The_Gunslinger658]

Hi-
here is a websight concerning the Seelie and Unseelie Courts:

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/fey/20030815a


Scott

IMC my players are in Cormyr, helping the Regent clean up after the Death of the Dragon. With the coming to an end of the Year of Wild Magic, and the arrival of the Year of the Rogue Dragon, the party is going to get caught up in events that involve the Seelie and Unseelie Courts. For with all the trouble that was caused by the ghazneth’s and other magical events over the past year, the Seelie & Unseelie Fey have been impacted to a great degree and now are forced to involve mortals in their affairs.

My questions involves these Fey and how they fit in with FR “Canon”, or how they might not fit.

What deities would the Fey follow, if any? The Elven Pantheon looks like a good choice, but what about the nature gods like Silvanus, Chauntea or Mielikki?

Would they live and have their Courts in a pocket “Fairey Realm” or perhaps live in the same realm as their deity?

Would there be some connection between the Unseelie and the Shadow Weave?

I’m trying to mine for idea’s so anything you would like to share would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Khairn]

I have all the Fey articles from the Wizards, but unfortunately it doesn't have anything regarding Faerun and the status of the Fey on that world.

My players are on the verge of epic level, and have a rather high opinion of themselves, so their introduction in the politics, power, magic and wonder of the Court's will hopefully make them pause and bring them down a few notches.

 

[qstor]

My questions involves these Fey and how they fit in with FR “Canon”, or how they might not fit.

What deities would the Fey follow, if any? The Elven Pantheon looks like a good choice, but what about the nature gods like Silvanus, Chauntea or Mielikki?

I'm not sure there's much in the way of material on the Fey in FR Canon. For some generic material I'd check out Bastion Presses Fairy supplement or GURPS Fairies.

As for gods...I'm not sure on that. There was a Dragon article that had stats for Oberon and Titiania that might be good too.

But since your players are near Epic level, I know that the Bastion Press book did not have Epic level material. Most of the Fey in WOTC books are lower level so most combats would be cakewalks.

Mike

 

[Arnwyn]

My questions involves these Fey and how they fit in with FR “Canon”, or how they might not fit.

Old or new? Different answers for different continuities.

What deities would the Fey follow, if any? The Elven Pantheon looks like a good choice, but what about the nature gods like Silvanus, Chauntea or Mielikki?

Old: Oberon and Titania, along with the other fey deities (from 2e Monster Mythology. This is consistent with the (superior) deity books of F&A, P&P, and DD.
New: all the ones you mention above would be appropriate. Shar might be good for the Unseelie fey.

Would they live and have their Courts in a pocket “Fairey Realm” or perhaps live in the same realm as their deity?

The older material meshed with Planescape, which (IIRC) used that "pocket Faerie Realm" concept. As for the newer stuff - you're on your own.

Would there be some connection between the Unseelie and the Shadow Weave?

While nothing in published material has been said of this, that is definitely a cool concept. Yoink! I'd go with that, for sure (and can see a good use for the Shadow Weave, which until this point I've ignored). A tie (ally or otherwise) between Shar and the Queen of Air & Darkness would be slick.

I also recommend using WotC's fey information to use in FR. You won't find much else, otherwise.

 

[Shemeska]

The older material meshed with Planescape, which (IIRC) used that "pocket Faerie Realm" concept. As for the newer stuff - you're on your own.

Planescape treated the Seelie and Unseelie courts as wandering, mobile deific domains that were found randomly moving across the planes of Ysgard and Pandemonium IIRC. I personally alter the concept to one of linked ethereal demiplanes that extend connections out to the various prime worlds populated by fey creatures.

And go with the prior continuity, it's better detailed and the new continuity is a contradiction in terms IMHO.

 

[bluegodjanus]

Most of the Fey in WOTC books are lower level so most combats would be cakewalks.

Not if that sidhe noble also happens to be an [booming voice]EPIC[/booming voice] swashbuckler/sorcerer/bladesinger. Sapient monsters (especially ones like fey) can advance just like characters.

 

[Imruphel]

I vaguely recall that the fey may have been one of the original creator races and thus a well-established part of FR canon.

I like linking Shar with the Queen of Air and Darkness. Options for the Seelie Court would be any of the nature spirits from Aglarond that have now been subsumed within the elven pantheon. Shiallia (sp?) and Lurue are particularly suitable powers.

 

[Alzrius]

I vaguely recall that the fey may have been one of the original creator races and thus a well-established part of FR canon.

Page 261 of the FRCS, fourth paragraph, mentions that (what seems to have been) fey were the fourth creator race:

Least known of the creator races are the sylvan people that populated the forests and other wooded areas, living in harmony with nature and leaving few traces. It is believed that their civilization fragmented after a great plague created by a draconic or demonic power. Their descendants are the sprites and other small woodfolk that populate secret parts of Toril today.

 

[Wombat]

Planescape treated the Seelie and Unseelie courts as wandering, mobile deific domains that were found randomly moving across the planes of Ysgard and Pandemonium IIRC.

While I cannot comment on Faerun & Planescape, per se, this idea does seem to fit with the traditional Irish beliefs of faerie rades and trooping -- much like medieval monarchs, the fey have no fixed abode, but wander about, here and there, as whim (and needs) dictate. If one were to use the fey in the core settings, this would feel entirely appropriate.