Dungeon Fantasy: Faery Hedges

b-dog · 03-20-2008, 11:17 AM

Faery Hedges are areas where the mundane world and faery world intersect to some degree. Often a faery hedge is a beautiful glade or glen where elves, nymphs, sprites, leprechauns, fauns and other nature faeries are able to enter the mundane world. Often these only allow very slow crossover and only a few faeries are able to enter in a year or so; others have much more direct connection to the faery realm which allow much greater crossing between worlds. Wise-women and wise-men vist these places and the fey teach them magic This is where the term hedge-wizard may have come from. Other faery hedges are beautiful pools of water, waterfalls and even faery rings, a ring of mushrooms that intersect with the faery realm.

There are darker faery hedges too. These instead of beng beautiful aspects of nature, they are areas of overgrown brambles and thorns deep in forests or desolate places. These faery hedges allow the more malign faeries to cross over such as goblins, orcs, trolls, ogres, bugbears and ther nasty faeries. Many evil wizards and lords build their lairs near these so they can bring forth these faeries as guards or even as armies to invade other lands. Other dark faery hedges include caves where the dark faeries come into the mortal realm. Often they dig many more caves to allow room for others of their kind. Many a holy cleric or knight will conquer the hedges of wicked faeries only to have more return years later.

Still over faery hedges are located near graveyards. The faeries who come to these tend to have a death aspect to them. Ghouls, grims and corpse eaters are faeries who often lair in the these hedges. They often live among undead such as vampires, ghosts, zombies, wraiths, wights and spectres. There are many other nightmarish faeries here as well such as banshees, black annises and night hags.

03-20-2008, 11:17 AM	#1
b-dog Join Date: Nov 2006	Dungeon Fantasy: Faery Hedges Faery Hedges are areas where the mundane world and faery world intersect to some degree. Often a faery hedge is a beautiful glade or glen where elves, nymphs, sprites, leprechauns, fauns and other nature faeries are able to enter the mundane world. Often these only allow very slow crossover and only a few faeries are able to enter in a year or so; others have much more direct connection to the faery realm which allow much greater crossing between worlds. Wise-women and wise-men vist these places and the fey teach them magic This is where the term hedge-wizard may have come from. Other faery hedges are beautiful pools of water, waterfalls and even faery rings, a ring of mushrooms that intersect with the faery realm. There are darker faery hedges too. These instead of beng beautiful aspects of nature, they are areas of overgrown brambles and thorns deep in forests or desolate places. These faery hedges allow the more malign faeries to cross over such as goblins, orcs, trolls, ogres, bugbears and ther nasty faeries. Many evil wizards and lords build their lairs near these so they can bring forth these faeries as guards or even as armies to invade other lands. Other dark faery hedges include caves where the dark faeries come into the mortal realm. Often they dig many more caves to allow room for others of their kind. Many a holy cleric or knight will conquer the hedges of wicked faeries only to have more return years later. Still over faery hedges are located near graveyards. The faeries who come to these tend to have a death aspect to them. Ghouls, grims and corpse eaters are faeries who often lair in the these hedges. They often live among undead such as vampires, ghosts, zombies, wraiths, wights and spectres. There are many other nightmarish faeries here as well such as banshees, black annises and night hags.