Closely associated with duels and duelling.

Epics and dramatic moments.' Perhaps the only court to focus on romantic love. 'heroes and adventures romances, comedies, and tragedies. Heroes, courage, and the threads of epics braiding together and into one another nature and summer, touched by sun.' 'Adventure, festival, and pleasant debauchery'. Summer High Summerįeatures 'wine and adventure, romances and tragedies, and simpler ballads of those led astray. ĭaniel Alitzer was held captive by this Court, forced to sing an endless song of mourning for their dead Queen.

Their culture is based around fear, hierarchy, and strict rules. Low Spring is divided into a number of smaller courts, each fiefdom with a somewhat different aesthetic and ruler. Powerful Dark Spring fae may mimic the powers of human Practitioners.

Their glamour focuses on negative emotion, on tragedy and horror. They make use of modern celebrity culture a great deal, blending modern technology and aesthetics in with the archaic, and are leaders in fashion and trends among the Fae. Relatively progressive, but otherwise quite dubious by human standards. Low SpringĪkin to High Spring but without the human appearance 'dressing themselves in chitin, spiderwebs, and skins while they deal in nightmares and upstaging one another in the torments they can inflict'. Might keep Glamour Drowned humans as dancers, competing to train the best one. They tend to suffer from more concentrated versions of the normal Fae weaknesses, and must employ other courts as warriors. They deal mostly with other Faerie, and tend to be inexperienced with everything else. They excell at effectively lying without technically breaking their word, and consist of nobility and high society without any society beneath. High Springįeatures 'aristocrats and gilded things, parties, fine craftsmanship and even finer, craftier lies', 'emulates human aristocracy and celebrity'. They will often claim Crossroads as a 'space of prominence'. These courts deal in nobility, and often interact with or adopt nobility from other courts. Using their glamour for sunlight things may provoke a negative reaction. The Low courts are associated with rain, darkness and cold water. The High courts are also known as Above, Bright, in Sunlight, etc while the Low courts are also known as Below, Dark, in Shadow, etc. Three of the four seasonal courts are further subdivided into High and Low. As of 2020 there are seven Courts: High and Low Courts

When they have exhausted the potential of a specific Court system, the Faerie will overthrow their rulers and institute a new dynamic, often using glamour to make it appear older.

Faerie Unfolding by The Silver Elves