Geárian Fae (geh-AH-ree-ən)

Hailing from the Courts of Spring within the Wyld Plane, the Geárian faeries are known for their wild, exciteable demeanor and a love of all things happy, vibrant, alive, and colorful.
No fae parties like the Geárians. Their parties are wild affairs with beautiful music, dancing, and all manner of food and drink, usually taking place deep within the wild, untamed wilderness that the "host" finds pleasant today. Mortals who happen by such a party are likely to get swept away in the merriment, losing years, decades, even centuries of time stuck within the party's hypnotic grasp.

Court of Spring

The Court of Spring is the home of the Geárian royalty. It is more stable than the rest of the Wyld Plane due to the imminence of fae royalty, but the realm is known to change dramatically based on the royals' whims and moods.
As with the rest of the Wyld plane, navigation is based not on survival skills or reading terrain, but on the traveler's instincts and primal drives. In the Court of Spring, wandering will take you to the place that best matches your instinctive drive, for better or worse. This effect can be overcome with sufficient willpower if the traveler focuses their instinctive will on a particular location. Doing so bends the Wyld to their will to create a path. Doing so within a fey's realm never goes unnoticed.

Spring Royalty

The Court of Spring is ruled by the Three Queens of Spring, who are supported and challenged by the Spring Prince.

Father Spring

Little is known about Father Spring. He is a being of immense power, seemingly restricted to his realm, bound by some unknown fate to use his power as that fate demands. He rarely gets directly involved in the political actions of the Geárian court, serving primarily as councelor to the Spring King.
Father Spring is most often known to take the form of an ancient, leathery skinned farmer. This form belies the depths of his power. Some legends say that he occasionally takes the form of a great earthquake or volcanic eruption, obliterating entire lands to start anew. Other legends say that it was Father Spring who gave Cir permission to form an unending kingdom.
Some scholars believe that Father Spring was once the Spring King. How such a transition might have occurred is a mystery to even the wisest of scholars.

Spring King

Ruler of the Courts of Spring, the Spring King is weaker but less restricted than Father Spring. He is called Conán and is said to possess a warrior's spirit capable of slaying mortals with a single glance. Conán's rule sets the status quo for the Courts of Spring. Only a fool risks disobedience within his realm.
The Spring King is most commonly known to take the form of an immense, muscle bound man wearing nothing but a fur loin cloth and moccasins. He is known both for jovial feasting and destructive rage. Scholars believe that many natural disasters in the material plane are due to Conán's occasional clash with his rival, the Autumn King.
Some scholars believe that the Spring King was once the Earl of Spring. How such a transition might have occurred is a mystery to even the wisest of scholars.

Earl of Spring

Said to be the future Spring King, the Spring Earl is weaker and less restricted than the King. He is son to the Spring King, though whether this is merely a metaphor has been a subject of scholarly debate for ages. In faerie politics, the Spring Earl is heavily involved, honing his skills by attempting coups against his father, the King. This leads to somewhat of a rivalry between King and Earl, despite their being ostensibly on the same team.
The Spring Earl usually takes the form of a young boy. his exact appearance varies from century to century. According to some scholars, this change in appearance is not merely aesthetic. Instead, it represents the Earl being replaced by a different candidate. This may happen because the Earl's youthful vigor puts his in a situation that ends in his untimely demise, or because his attempted coups with the King get out of hand, or for any number of other reasons.
Though the Earl is the weakest of Fae royalty, his power should not be underestimated. His power may be less than the King or Father, but his proximity to Mortality grants his the ability to use his power in a far more direct manner than the other royals.

Spring Princess

Though she dwells technically within the Spring Court, the Spring Princess has her own domain, seperate from those of the Father, King, and Earl. As with other Princes and Princesses of the fae, the Spring Princess's domain is less broad than her male counterparts'.
The Spring Princess is also often called The Oracle. She commands a sizeable coterie of far-sighted creatures called her Destinies. The Destinies have members from among fey and mortal alike, drawn by the Oracle's visions of the future.
The Destinies spend most of their time attending to their mistress, recording her words and prophecies, and learning to gaze into the future. They keep a compendium of all such prophecies, divided into categories understood only by the Oracle herself. It is said that mortals who arrive in her realm might look into the mysteries stored in her libraries. Many of her Destinies are just such mortals, driven mad by what they saw.
When it comes to fae politics, the Spring Princess is usually absent. However, she does occasionally show up to court to act as a sort of contrarian to the King's wishes, or a foil to his designs. This resistance is part of the eternal dance of fae politics and is little understood by mortals. However, thise are some scholars who suggest that many, if not all, of such appearances are in some way driven by the Spring Earl, whom the Princess is thought to adore from afar.

Spring Knights

Fae royals can, in times of need, invest some of their power into a mortal to gain greater flexibility in the use of their power. The result is what is known as a Fae Knight. The Knights gain significant power from their liege, and in return are beholden (largely) to their liege's whims. They can resist, and Knights capable of such resistance often prove highly valuable to the royal. Such resistance is very difficult and frequently results in the Knight's death. Or worse.
Knights of Spring are beholden to all Spring Royals, regardless of which Royal invested power into them. They are known as Green Knights.

Alternate Names

Endonym: LarsmiÞas (those who are wise)
Scholarly: Geárian (merciful ones) Common: Eladrin

Common Associations

Autumn
Knowledge
Dreams

Genetic Ancestor(s)

• Fae