Exploring the Feywild 

The Feywild has really looked like a fun sort of environment, but barely any list of the varied creatures that would be expected, I guess that the Irish ancestry has me interested. I was actually thinking of some inspiration from the anime Kill la Kill, which is all over the top, for a sort evil feywild group. The series villain, Ragyo, as an evil fashionista archfey shining rainbows, and followers who are deceptively cute but nightmarishly psychopathic. Actually there was something I was wondering, that elves are connected to the Feywild, but how Dark Elves might be in relation. I was writing up a place that the balance that prevented certain bad things was reliant on nature spirits and the like that to be fixed would require going to the Feywild which overlaps and a certain place connects, but getting there would require meeting a Dark Elf city. I originally planned that the Drow are a people that came from the Feywild and settled, whether they were once more traditional elves and what they would currently think of the Feywild, I don't quite know yet. Would they like the Feydark? And if maybe sounds like something interesting with spiders could be set up to match.

Come with me, and we'll be, in a world without our limitations...

Sounds like the kinda place to make those ancient level spells that got nerfed into nonexistence on the prime plane. Would make an interesting story to see a wizard discover a book about a level of power spell that is above anything he or she could potentially do on his own plane of existence. I would imagine the wizard would be a little unhinged to even attempt such a thing.

while the Shadowfell represents Depression, the Feywild represents Mania.

Artagan makes alot more sense now, how he can have a cleric because hes an archfey and he is practically divine because he accidentally became a little more powerful because of jesters devotion.

I like the fae’s perception of normal beings. Very informative.

How to RP a Le-Shea as a DM: "Well, i'm ageless and immortal... i can easily wait this out."

"They only die if they are killed-." It's too late, now I have Shirou Emiya's dumb mug in my head again.

The Feywild sounds like the most wonderful place honestly. I personally would love to go there and just get lost never to return.

Making a character kind of based off of the animals in the Redwall Book series, and I think having their society based in the Fey Wild would make sense. Thanks for the information to add into his background.

the biggest issue with the feywild is the lack of unique wildlife. it's hard to make a elvin realm free of normal creatures.

In a campaign I was in with some friends I ran two characters simultaneously, Bailan a monk/druid and Artemis an artificer/lore bard. Both were taken to the Feywild as infants by an archfey. When they were returned to the prime material plane, it was with the intent that they carry on with the designs of the autumn circle of the Seely court. They were crazy fun to play. Bailan was outwardly the embodiment of chaos while Artemis was the embodiment of lost forgotten wisdom from the wild places. If we ever have a high level campaign again in the same setting I want to bring them back out again.

I kind of like the idea of giving Characters who stay too long in the Feywild, access to the Control Flames, Druidcraft, Gust, Minor Illusion, Mold Earth, Prestidigitation, Shape Water, and Thaumaturgy cantrips, that they can use as Actions, Bonus Actions, and even Reactions. Just to reflect the magical nature of the place, and to encourage creativity, and shenanigans.

Feywild seems like it would give me a headache lol I'll take the Shadowfell thank you very much. The overwhelming soul sucking despair and entropy wouldn't be much of a change to my daily life -_-

really good break down. I had never really considered a fey wild for every world. The idea of jaunting to the FW to do big things is awesome development space. the idea of jaunting out to places where the rules dont apply to do great magics is basically what your big baddie is doing when he makes pacts with evil. ... now I have a means to explain where Good wizards go to bend the rules with a whole host of consequences that my arrise.

Thank you for this, I’m about to run a session in the Feywild, so this was great inspiration. I also appreciate your delivery style. Felt more like a uni lecture, rather than the over the top style of a lot of other videos, so it doesn’t grate on the nerves.

What a terrific introduction! I’m preparing a Feywild expansion to my brother’s and my Duet game, and this was invaluable information. Thanks so much!

I kept pausing the video to take screenshots The backgrounds were just so beautiful

awesome i'm loving your exploring series

Wonderful inspiration fuel and really well articulated for even people less familiar with the rather alien nature of fey.

I have to say this is my favorite video of yours that I have watched. Love your description of the over abundance and wildness

Brilliant! You've inspired an encounter that I might write up this week for submission. Awesome. Thank you!

Lots of beautiful art in this video! Thanks for the theme/mood setting and inspiration😁

Feywild, a wild place to explore.

My favorite plane of existence.

First of all. Thank you! you went over so much of the what, but also the why. very helpful for lore knowledge and you gave great points as to the moods and views of these creatures. especially helpful to my role playing them as npcs. thanks for the inspiration!

my old DM depicted the feywild as a living surrealist painting. there was a carnivorous lemon,

Wonderful work mate, greatly appreciate this series of yours.

Wow! That was awesome!

Your description of the shadowfell reminds me of my local pub.

Love the channel I've been bringing its content for a couple of days now.

I've been watching and loving your videos for a while and just discovered that I want subscribed. D:

i love watching this video so much

This is awesome! I tired to look up the fey wild but only found small bits here and there. Its nice to have this better perspective on it since I'm unfamiliar with it.

Thank you for doing a video on the Feywild. I'm currently playing the Sharandar campaign in Neverwinter Online, and this vid gave me some fun info.

Been waiting for this! Time for some Fable music! XD

New subscriber here…thank you very much for this video. I like how you tell the stories of the different plans and realms..EXCELLENT WORK 🏆

when ever Im presented with the idea of some magic forests, Im thinking about what was in the Kingdoms of Amalur Reckoning. those game devs really hit the nail on the head when they designed forests for that game. makes me wanna play the game through again just for the atmosphere.

this is my favorite realm

15:45 xD I don't know why but a gave a like for this fantastic slurp

thoroughly enjoyed that! :)

Thanks, AJ!

It's Neverland!

The fey wild has so much life. It's death.

What's funny is that literature on the fairy world native to global earth human culture, irl, has it, be wild and magically, but also threatening, and dehumanizing. Like both the Shadowfell and FeyWild from DnD fused together. I saw a comment comparing the shadowfell to depression, and the feywild to mania. If so: fearie myths irl are like manic depression. I wonder if that could be worked into a campaign🤔 Like, a world like our own earth, where the spell plague got inverted on the prime plane, and it screwed up everywhere in the sphere, except for the prime material plane. Resulting in a situation where all of the infinite elemental planes, became, material, expanding the sphere, and the two normally opposite planes of positive energy; and negative energy, for the area of effect of the expanding sphere: became the double plane of alternating positive and negative energy. And then that high energy charge, pulled the weave 90°s further connecting the two planes, but leaving the magic weave as something which merely intersects the prime plane as a circular or spherical cross section like physics particles. Also as the sphere expanded, the far elemental planes and beings from the elemental planes of uncontacted spheres were sucked in, resulting in an incapacitation of the gods as their godly portfolios became diluted and proportionally less powerful. Creating a secular sphere, of apparently infinite size, where the shadowfell and fey wilds have merged and the beings there, though dominated by the fey, and a few Tenari and rumors of one or two Obyriths survived, primarily the fey dominated what remained of the shadowfell, however, now, rather than a world of perpetual extreme autumn, and a world of perpetual extreme spring, it's now a world of perpetual extreme seasonality. A world of perpetual twilight, where the sun is always ALMOST setting or ALMOST rising. And as you look out accross the horizon it seems to be on both horizons, and yet the world is only as bright as if there were one. Disorienting your sense of east&west. Under this everlasting liminal sky, seasons morph and skew rapidly, akin to gentle breezes. And laughter wafts on the air. But woe to those whom find the source of this laughter; as many of the fey, in earnest desire to live in harmony with the altered realm, have begun to change demeanors and behavioral alignment, as swiftly as its ever changing seasonality. A host may offer you tea one minute, then after a gust of chill winter air: stare you in the soul with newly developed fangs and attempt to drink your blood. Although several not uncommon small pockets of fey, whom instead of living in complete unity with the plane, accept their decreased power, as a fair trade off in exchange for upholding old cultural social norms: many fey including many belonging to these "peaceful" groups, still harbor resentment towards humans (and some groups even view nonhumans as equally responsible) for what they see [rightfully] as; the destruction of everything they loved, as a selfish theft the humans performed to fix human-made problems. Albiet, many humans were from elemental planes, and most alive at the time were killed, most fey do not know this. Many gods as they were dying, used divine powers that basically de-extincted humans, as adult sized infants, all across Earth and perhaps other worlds in the infinite prime. The Infinite sphere caused disruptions to flogistical space; so, to prevent, the demise of the flogistal spheres, by this mistaken forbidden magic, mercifully: The One Above all, placed this sphere, in own flogisticated space out of phase with the rest of the flogiston space, like aber torril once was. So to leave the infinite sphere players must go to the boundary of the expansion of the real universe not just the observable one. Comicbook super heroes are able to do it. But with the only source of magic being such a dangerous counter-plane, will you to be able to do it? To leave the universe and seek adventure elsewhere, more hospitable? Food for thought

Being a magic user in the Wild Fey would be epic. Question could you send a missile/magical blast of some kind. From the WildFey into the Abyss to take out a layer or demon Prince?

Had an awful thought if a Fey being underestimating the fragility of mortals and accidentally severely injuring (or worse) their friend with what they thought was just a harmless prank.

AJ you know it's been awhile since I've made a comment but could you talk about areas in the world of greyhawk on the map and histories of that area and what resources they produce

You can travel from the Underdark into the Feydark without knowing it as well

The feywild sounds like heaven

Omg The LaShae are mega awesome

nice indepth video

15:50 Beer Break!

I have a world idea where the Feywild, Shadowfell, and material plane all collapse into one another making an amalgam world. I want some parts of the would to be as if you are walking into a pocket of the feywild. Do you have any ideas or ways I could do that?

Can you do a 2ed to 5e monster conversion video?

oh it's like the Emerald Dream :p

What addition was the Feywild introduced AJ?

So in game mechanics, how would you handle magic used in the fey? everything goes up in dcs/dice, or would it be more spell slots given, or both. Also if someone was going to craft spells of extreme power there would they use some type of rules similar to 3.5 epic spells?

Great info! Priceless and thank you for your work. One quick question. Why did you say that it was the fae who created Elves, because they appeared from Corellon's blood. I was taken aback by that. Can you elaborate, please?

I know this is old, but I've heard, at least for Forgotten Realms, the Shadowfell was basically created with the intent of creating a Shadow Weave, where Shadow Magic is seperate from normal magic using the standard Weave. Would it be possible that something similar is going on in the Feywildes? As to say, would it be fair to assume there's a "Fey Weave"?

Would it be accurate to say that the feydark is the opposite of the Underdark?

If the Feywild is an echo of the Prime Material, is there Feyspace in between Fey Crystal Spheres full of Fey reflections of various planets in those spheres?

Im mostly curious about the feydark... Is there a fey drow?

I created two worlds yesterday, Aj Pickett. It’s all your fault.

Getting distracted at every turn. Welp sucks to be in the feywylds with ADHD :D

Does the lack of Mystra's prohibition mean Karsus's Avatar works in the Feywilds?

stay your mind!

5:44 she do be hitting that dab though

Can anyone help me on info on the le shea? I can't seems to find them anywhere? I want to create 1 as an important char for my background. Any help of links are helpful

Wait I thought 4th edition was in faurun as well? Did they change primary settings and I just never heard? I feel like that's a big lore piece that I've missed

I wish they made a real source book on the Feywild in 4th edition

I would like to see kitsune creatures( your typical anime foxgirl with many tails) as additions to the offical game they soo fit in with the feywild, and there should be good and evil alaigned versons of them.

So the Lachey are like the Ori from Stargate?!

Ahh, the Feywild, where death is only a minor inconvenience and the party doesn’t seem to ever stop.

Question. So if a dragon born in the shadowfell becomes a shadow dragon, is there a similar thing for dragons that are born in the feywild?

whats is the major difference between your run of the mill all powerfull elves and your deity level c'thulu eating eladrin? all i can seem to find is that elfs elf trope, like the fae from the K.O.A. universe. what is it that makes them so much more, lorewise than just a high elf who's "power level" equates to the ego he/she has aquired over centuries of perfecting their skills. an old elf can be a godless badass, but they've earned it, they're still relatively mortal, and they are still a fly on the wall to a solar, what makes your eladrin able to step up to that level... great videos anyways, got me alot of lore reading to do up on those black eyed proto elves, in spirit the enginer pick was fitting aswell.

Is there a Feywild for Athas, the world of the Dark Sun?

This guy sounds like he’s been there in his recounting lol

The mighty gluestick

What is the girl at 17:46 from?

When a warlock forms a contract what happens to their soul after they die? Or is it even the same as a warlock forming a contract with devils?

Do you ever read about the tragedy of Johnnathan Strange & Mr. Norrel?

You mention the archfey are demigod level so how would that make them compare to ancient dragons?

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Hi, there is a feywild of Terra?

Did the Feywild exist in the D&D cosmology before D&D 4th edition?

You do a great job of gathering lore and information, and have provided a great source of inspiration for my own campaign. However there is one critique I have, and you'll excuse me if it's already been addressed elsewhere as you have a long list of videos. You need to reduce that pop sound from your recording. That sound that results when puffs of air shoot out from your mouth when pronouncing certain letters, the largest culprit being the letter "P". I'd suggest buying a pop filter for whatever microphone you're recording with.

I love the feywild.. If you got a party hates the shadowfell take them to the shadowfell lol

Just in the first few minutes, your description of the feywild leaves me expecting to see a hookah-smoking caterpillar.

When I heard the lord of bats I immediately thought some kind Dracula stereotype and also batman.

So the sensory overload of the feywild is like being stuck at Disneyland with no way out so much brightness and song and excitement until it becomes unbearable.

Can those powerfull Fey thingys that have basically lived forever... can they fall in love? I suppose as its somewhat my world that I am making I suppose I get to rule that myself. But would it make sense? If a warlock meets one, may the Fay fall in love and be willing to give them some special rights to summon them or whatever. I like the idea of pacts, could one be interesting in making some special pact with a caracter in large part due to being a bit out of their mind from love? I suppose they would be rather imune to being charmed. But if its a charm effect they passively put themselves in. >.> I am basically just making up stories for myself. And this DnD thing seems like a very nice way to set stuff up. As I learn more, maybe my main caracter will not be some strange Dragonborn, Elf, Kenku, Lizard, Tabaxi, Yuan-Ti, Fairy freak. XD >.> I am sure there are a bunch of reasons why such a being would simply break apart by pure stupidity of it. I have a rather limited knowlage of anything DnD related so I am basically just filling in stuff with my own limited fantasy. The reason why all these races ended up being mixed is that I liked some of the traits of most of them. So I wanted my caracter to have these abilities. ^.^ As I see it, while he may be op as a person, all I need to do is trow large powerfull stuffs at him. xD And as the caracter has a rather, at least by this worlds standars, horrible views and lives a life we may see as horrible and evil I do not know if he will have too many friends on his adventures yet. So I need him to be able to handle himself. Despite all his advantages if he is up againt 20 enemies or even maybe just a 4 he will probably still have a really hard time. Basically a party vs 1 strange monster. A large part of his thing is rather then combat, to manipulate and flee. I more or less want him to somehow manage to talk his way out of being caught red handed trying to steal a gem... Not just managing to not be punished, but somehow making the guard or whatever forget to get back the gem. :3

And he was never seen from again

How would a feywild of dark sun look?

Leshea to humans-“wait you die form not dying? That’s so weird.”

So in the Lore Elves don't get an afterlife just an Endless reincarnation until Lloth is dead?

Someone count how many times he says ‘noble eladrin’

What city of the Drow committed atrocities in the Feywild?

Here is a challenge for people. Have your characters on lsd while in the feywild