The Unseelie Court

A Court of the Feywild, but not quite. Ruled by the fabled Queen of Air and Darkness, but not exactly. An organisation that weaves through every other court, undermining, driving wedges, but that's only part right. The fact that the Unseelie Court is commonly known as such is the biggest indicator that the 'Seelie' fey don't really understand the Unseelie - not really. They frame it in terms familiar to them, for rules and structure are as much a part of the Courts of the Feywild as much as is mercurialness and the delight of revelry.
The Feywild is a place of heightened emotions (at least by the standards of other planes) - more than that it is a plane of emotions. Step from one glade to the next and you can find yourself turning from elation to fear in a single stride, and equally parading a celebration through a swamp can turn the flowers from black and grey to gold and green through the feedback of land and will. But emotion is a broad category. What happens when a Fey is consumed in a spiral of fear, anger, hate - well, you know how that goes.
For these fey, they begin to hear the call of the Unseelie - a call that speaks to the broken and flawed nature of the Courts, to the futility in supporting a society that holds you back, to the lack of any reason not to rebel against it as there are allies aplenty to be found among the dark shadows of the Unseelie. And some - many perhaps - answer this call, following the call like a mortal being lured to the Feywild by fairy song and dancing, but this time into a darker, hidden realm.
The Unseelie Court is not a court truly because it does not have that kind of structure - more cells than domains. The Queen of Air and Darkness is known as the ruler - the singer of the song of chaos - but she rules from the deepest secrecy, only speaking directly to a precious few. As a Fey becomes Unseelie, they may even stay in their court, working quietly to feed information back or undermine the power structures that exist. To be Unseelie is to understand how they operate, and as such the established courts struggle to react to something so far out of their understanding. Their actions are typically quiet and subtle - recently flaring up into a dramatic confrontation around the crowning of the new Fey Ascendant.

Type

Court, Royal