The Resurgence

Era beginning/end

Starting with the Moon Landing, this historic event marked the rebirth of glamour in Arcadia, reopening trods and returning the Sidhe to Earth.

On July 20, 1969, humanity witnessed the moon landing live on television, and all of the hope, fear, and wonder of the previous decade burst forth. Across the world, all with faerie sight witnessed ancient trods manifesting on land, on sea, and in the air as the long gone sidhe rulers returned on majestic steeds and in chariots of light and darkness. True Dreamers emerged in all corners of the world, and balefires burnt brighter than since before the Shattering. For a brief moment, everything in the world had a chimerical quality, but centuries of amassed Banality muted it and immediately closed the gateways to Arcadia.   Guided by the Dreaming, or perhaps through their own pre-arrival planning, the first generation of Arcadian sidhe forced themselves into human hosts. Mortal witnesses describe friends or family collapsing for a brief moment, then rising, confused for a short time, but brimming with confidence and an aura of regal quality. It’s also true that some sidhe souls entered the Autumn world in silence and through unseen trods, and those who did inhabited the bodies of newborn babies, waiting to grow up and join the ranks of nobility as, some believe, a contingency plan if something went wrong during the return. However, no matter the chosen human body, they all belonged to someone wealthy and influential, or were members of highly-valued and powerful families in society.