Spring Fae
All of the Fae courts have a wide range of skin tones, hair colors, and eye colors, but the Spring Court Fae tend to have platinum blonde, white, and silver more often than the others. That isn't to say brown hair or other colors are extremely rare among Spring Fae, just that you're way less likely to find white/silver hair among other Fae Courts (unless they have family ties back to Spring Fae, of course).
The Spring Fae Court is the most mysterious of the seasonal Fae courts because they're secretive and isolate even from other Fae. It is unknown why this is, and there has been a longstanding rumor that many Spring Fae have either died out or disappeared for uncertain reasons.
All Fae have druidic ties to nature, but Spring Fae tend to be the most tied to the older religious druidic ways. They pay homage to the gods of Nature, Spring, Storms, and Hunting. Their communities tend to be smaller and more scattered than the other courts, though there is believed to be a capital or palace somewhere hidden from outsiders. Howeber, this tends to make them closer to nature sprites, elementals, and genasi that are born from Fae/Elemental parents. Due to this, there are some Spring Fae with Elemental features such as green skin, "hair" made of leaves, barkskin, etc.
Spring Fae tend to get along more with Summer Fae, but have been quite distant from the Autumn Court, and most dislike the way the Winter Court governs and live all together. They prize freedom and communal living most of all, and the fact that many Winter Fae live in fortified cities in freezing mountains makes little sense to them.
The Spring Fae lands are, of course, in a constant state of Spring. The land is covered in forests, some mountains with beautiful valleys full of wildflowers, and swamps. Rain is very common, as is flooding in swampy areas and the many rivers that overflow. Mists and fog plagues the land during warmer days.
Many Spring Fae love to make their homes in treehouses of ancient trees, though some also live in underground temples caved out of caves or mountainsides. Their temples are often in such locations, though the insides of massive trees being carved out to make temples are not uncommon, either. Mini shrines with scattered offerings of feathers, berries, skulls, etc can be found all over.
The land of Sylvia next to the Eastern Elysian Empire has a large percentage of Spring Fae ancestry due to the Second Schism, but the way they dress, sometimes look, and their architecture + their lifestyle is a quite different due to the Empire's influence, as well as interaction with other non-Fae countries
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