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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ambrus" data-source="post: 4734881" data-attributes="member: 17691">In my last 3.5 campaign, I had two coterminous planes that existed alongside the prime material plane. Prime material places and societies were very loosely mirrored in these parallel realms. One was a reflection of the prime plane called the Aurora and was effectively a faery land populated with elementals and fey creatures (in the guise of the seelie court). The other was a shadow of the prime called the Umbra and was a twisted place populated with goblinoids and undead spirits (in the guise of the unseelie court). The prime material plane was a buffer between these two opposed planes that served as a no-mans-land through which the fey and the goblins moved secretly while performing reconnaissance and leading raids into enemy territory. Although residents of the prime occasionally bore witness to these skirmishes, they remained largely oblivious to the war or the fact that their world was a disputed battleground called the "Twilight Realm". The Faery Queen of Aurora was Ana, a goddess of light and dreams while the Goblin King of Umbra was Beng, a god of darkness and nightmares.In a tropical swashbuckling campaign I'm currently involved in, the DM adopted some ideas I offered up concerning the fey. Their society is divided up into four (or five) courts; each tied to an element. The folletto and marzulines (sylphs) are the master and mistresses of the Court of Winds, the Fauns and Silvani are the lords and ladies of the Court of Earth, while the tritons and nereids are the kings and queens of the Court of Waves. The fourth is comprised of noble Salamanders who are masters and mistresses of the Court of Flames and whose realm lies in active volcanoes. Most of these races already exist in one form or another as 3e D&D races; switching their types to fey is all that was needed to make them fit their new roles. Simple-minded elementals are tied to their respective elemental court and serve the noble fey as as serfs, laborers and warriors. Unaffiliated fey races (such as the brownies, red caps, pookas and gremlins) represent bastard offspring of the main four courts. They along with exiled outlaws, oath-breakers and disowned noble fey have banded together and secretly take refuge in humanoid villages and cities. They've grown so numerous over the centuries that they've formed a (relatively) new upstart fifth court which threatens the old order. The noble fey refer to these upstarts as the Forlorn, while they themselves call their urbane society of fey the Court of Gold.My character in the latter game has some uncertain fey ancestry and I left it to DM to decide the exact details of it for himself. During game play it's come to light that my character is a halfling/fey bastard child of the ruling monarch of the Court of Winds, Count Basadone. Without bothering to inform my character, Basadone saw fit to promise my character in marriage to the daughter of the leader of the Court of Gold in hopes of bringing a measure of peace to the warring courts.</blockquote>

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