Eladrin and Feywild Landover makeover idea - PEACH and expand please

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#1

guang

Jan 26, 2010 0:11:47

I've been reading the latest landover book by Terry Brooks, and got to thinking how cool Feywild stuff would be if it was also elemental in nature like Brooks' Fairy race. Very Fey creatures. Example: An earth fairy that takes form out of a pool of mud. Also wood, water, etc. Kinda hard to describe, but for those that have read the books, what would you think of this kind of race possibly replacing both Eladrin and Genasi? How could the cosmos be adjusted to rebalance everything, if Feywild is heavily elemental-tinged? Would it involve combining the Feywild and the Elemental Chaos?

I'm hoping a lot of people here have read a bit of Landover, or at least Shannara. Discuss, pls?

#2

monstro

Jan 26, 2010 7:40:17 		Haven't read them but I think the D and D's cosmology is a bit screwy on this point.  In no mythology anywhere are "fairy" creatures not directly tied to the elements through nature.  That's sort of their defining characteristics (as well as the defining characteristic of most gods and goddesses of antiquity).

I run my campaign 50/50 in the fey wyld and have had to really invent the whole thing as I go.  I base most of what I've got on things like the game Changeling, the book Meeting The Other Crowd by Eddie Lenihan and Carolyn Eve Green, the Brothers Grimm, and just about any "fairy tale" I can get my hands on and use.  Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream" isn't bad for getting some basics out of the way either.
#3

undrave

Jan 26, 2010 13:27:03
Haven't read them but I think the D and D's cosmology is a bit screwy on this point.  In no mythology anywhere are "fairy" creatures not directly tied to the elements through nature.  That's sort of their defining characteristics (as well as the defining characteristic of most gods and goddesses of antiquity).

I run my campaign 50/50 in the fey wyld and have had to really invent the whole thing as I go.  I base most of what I've got on things like the game Changeling, the book Meeting The Other Crowd by Eddie Lenihan and Carolyn Eve Green, the Brothers Grimm, and just about any "fairy tale" I can get my hands on and use.  Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream" isn't bad for getting some basics out of the way either.



You could check out Wondrous Strange by Lesley Livingston and, more importantly, its sequel, Darklight (which a good chunk of the action takes place in the 'Other World', aka the Feywild).