Faerie Temperate Environments

Temperate regions experience the greatest swings in fey power.

In summer, the Seelie are generally dominant; in winter, the Unseelie are. Seelie tend to be more populous, but the Unseelie tend to be more individually powerful, and many of the fey in these climes associate with neither of these courts. Conflict between courts is common and may happen at predictable intervals (such as the equinoxes) or sporadically.

A notable variation of temperate climate is one in which there is a hot, dry summer and mild, wet winter. The fey of these regions, if involved in the Two Courts, tend to treat their opposites more with contempt and derision than with any actual malice.

Direct conflict is far rarer than avoidance. In this particular climate, environments are more varied than usual, and the ecology often adapts to take advantage of brush-fires which occur during the dry summers. Since fires are important in these places, fey here have a stronger affinity with fire than elsewhere.

Many plants here are dependent on fire for reproduction, fertilization, and removing their dead fellows. So, the traditional battle of fey against foolish fire-spreading mortals in many environments is here reversed, where mortal firefighting unwittingly stifles the local ecology until, when fire does finally come, it is disastrously large, devastating to even the fire-loving plants.