Feytouched
Medium-Size Fey
Hit Dice: 1d6-1 (2 hp)
Initiative: +5
Speed: 30 ft.
AC: 13 (+1 Dex, +2 leather), touch 11, flat-footed 12
[...Yadda yadda combat stuff]

Feytouched are a widely varied group of beings -- some are wispy and beautiful, while others are ugly and brutish. Some resemble elves, with pointed ears and almond-shaped eyes. Others look more like trolls, with warty skin and disproportioned limbs. [Which makes me think they must go beyond Human and Elves?] Regardless, all feytouched have at least one feature or characteristic that is out of the norm -- vibrantly colored hair, feathered eyebrows, or a propensity for speaking in rhyme, for example. Despite their actual appearance, all feytouched are highly charismatic beings that draw attention wherever they go.

Feytouched have no cohesive culture; either they become isolated loners, or they immerse themselves in cosmopolitan society, sampling everything life has to offer. They are also drawn to the same natural settings that other fey called home. Most fey respond favorably to feytouched and consider them distant cousins.

The Unseelie Court

"Blood is compulsory."

-- Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Unlike the selective, restrictive Seelie Court, the Unseelie Court welcomes anyone and everything with even a drop of ancestral fey blood. Fey can and do breed with anything, creating odd, mixed creatures. Most species consider the offspring grotesque monsters. The mutant creatures gravitate towards the Unseelie Court, which welcomes them and gives them an environment where peculiar physiologies and abilities are the norm.
The Unseelie Court is a more hospitable place for non-fey as well. Court nobles eagerly provide patronage for creatures who are extremely strong, dexterous, clever, beautiful, or talented. Obtaining the sponsorship of a court noble is not without its rewards, nor without its dangers. For instance, a gifted bard whose playing impresses a fey nobleman might be invited to his castle as a guest. Once there, the bard will be feted and asked to play every night -- and never be permitted to leave.

Ruling over all these oddities is the Queen of Air and Darkness: a fey of unsurpassed beauty and grace. The Queen of Air and Darkness has no current consort and no surviving children. The court is rife with gossip and political maneuvering as each noble curries the queen's favor in the hopes of being named the royal heir.

Outsiders not of fey blood are rarely admitted to the Unseelie Court. Visitors must be prepared with unusual and powerful gifts for the Queen, or they might find themselves the quarry of a nightmarish hunt. Suitable gifts for the Queen include figurines of horrific power, gems of darkness, and cursed jewelry. (Details on the figurines of horrific power and gems of darkness will appear in a future fey column on the Wizards website.)

After a millennia of indiscriminate breeding, the physical appearance of the Unseelie Court mirrors the macabre. Twisted columns, trees forced into unnatural growth by royal gardeners, are scattered haphazardly through the hall. Curtains of shadows hide blood-soaked alcoves. Drawn back for times of celebration, the gaping crevasses reveal uninvited guests captured for the amusement of the court. Riotous blooms of nightshades and blood warts glow red in the evening, providing a maddening light to the misshapen court. The throne of the Unseelie Court is shaped like a great shadow dragon, a creature of midnight and darkness, like the queen herself.

The answer is "Because that's how it works on Amia."

See: Strongheart halflings, Aasimar, Tieflings, Genasi.

Oh and if you do get this req" through with a hyphon or apostrophe in your name...Im goin too stomp you!

Please,please,please read up.....Your walking on my picture here..

For additional ideas,read up on the 1200-1280 english history,the cross clash of cultures and stuff..EG:england=Titania...the french=Mabd...the rest the twighlight...and if you dare sparkle...see stomping above...seriously..try it!


And read the tempest and the faerie queen dammit!...for gods sake study!

Everyone should g o fix the wiki.... Our wiki is significantly less cool than everyone elses.

Always used the old folk lore behind Unseelie and Seelie courts. Almost completely ignored the stupid WoTC stuff.
Evil little shits that rip your eyeballs out and use them as puppets if you offend them even in the smallest manner always seemed a better base for the fey and feytouched unseelie then DnD's idea of it.

Read Raymond E. Feists Faerie Tale. One of the best Seelie novels I have ever read, and probably his best work as well.

is it possible to be an aranea or giant spider pc?

Why?

Yes, that's a serious question.

I once made a request for an aranea PC. It was denied but I suspect a truly spectacular request may go trough. Non-sentient spiders are probably a strict and unmovable No.

Those creatures are holycrapawesome. I have some lore on their society and such stored in here somewhere if you need it.

sure ill take it

are there any sentient spiders besides aranea or driders? (not ettercaps)