Feywild

An excerpt from ‘into the Feywild: a Chroniclers journey’ by Thevep Taaffe on the peculiarities of the lunar and solar cycles in the Feywild. From chapter 2 ‘Geographic regions within the Feywild’:

Faerie* has four distinct regions I have named them here (it should be noted that the locals do not have distinct names for them and think I am foolish for asking if they did): The Sunlit glades, the mountain of the moon, the dusk forest, and the Dawnwall. In truth each region is more geographically diverse than its name suggests but in terms of the positions of the sun and moon they are absolute, that is to say the Sunlit glades are always sunlit, it is always daytime there. It is always night in the mountains of the moon, the moon never wavers in the sky either, the dusk forest and Dawnwall the sun is perpetually setting or rising. This is not to say the moon and sun are static in the sky as was my first assumption, they move through the sky, but the land rotates to face them keeping them always high in their skies. I have been entirely unable to fathom how this can be, the geometry of this makes no sense, the phases of the moon may hold a clue, they are different from ours and will require further investigation. When I asked the locals about my observations I was rebuffed, the typical response being “Why? Always wanting to know that which simply is, there is no ‘why’ to answer.”

Thoroughly infuriating, although I have noticed some of the younger fae beginning to imitate my questioning, maybe there is some scholarly hope for them yet.

From chapter 7 ‘Astrological phenomena as if differs from the planar prime’:

As mentioned previously The phases of the Moon are entirely different in the Feywild, there are a larger variety of the crescent shapes we on the planar prime are familiar with but also a variety of lenses which appear to be the inverse of the crescents (i.e. each crescent has a corresponding lens where the light part is dark and the dark light.) Crucially I am yet to witness a sky with no moon, when asked the denizens seemed to find the notion of a sky with no moon ridiculous. On hearing this I asked about black nights and was met with nothing but a hushed confusion from most faces; I assumed they simply had no such thing here until a wizened man with the most eccentric eyebrows pulled me into the quiet nook of a nearby tree stump and politely but pointedly told me not to inquire further about black nights and would not be drawn further on the issue, I promised not to ask anymore questions, which seemed to mollify him, there was certainly more to this and I could gather information other ways, not that he needed to know that.

''*Faerie is what the native denizens call the Feywild, Chronicler TT seems to flit between the two names throughout her chronicle, most unprofessional. (Note by DA)''