Basically the Feywild

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[@DisorientatedNumbers]

I once described Seelie and Unseelie as "One will stab you in the back, the other will stab you outright."

[@hoi-polloi1863]

I always saw it as, "One will stab you and enjoy feeling depressed until they forget, the other will stab you and cackle joyously until they forget"

[@AndrewJohnson-oy8oj]

Or "one will stab you out of spite, the other will stab you for the lulz"

[@camiblack1]

So literally no change between Prime Florida and Feywild Florida.

[@s.colins2050]

I mean, there kinda is. It's just that instead of hillbilly swamp dwellers cursing each other out and potentially chucking whatever dangerous chemicals they might have in arms reach, it's actually hags literally cursing each other and definitely chucking whatever dangerous liquid they have at each other.

[@s.colins2050]

So, it like, went from 11 to 13, instead of 5 to 10 like the feywild normally does to places.

[@mgb360]

There's a difference. In the Feywild Florida, all the crazy people trying to kill or curse you are female

[@geoleo965]

Other than one being fictional and beloved... NOPE.

[@arandomzoomer4837]

I mean I feel like Satyrs are more fitting than hags.

[@WillKrause21]

"The Jesus, The Satan, and the Clothes Cupboard" is the best description of C.S. Lewis ever.

[@sillyking1991]

its the best description of his most well known book series...not the person himself lol

[@a2pabmb2]

@@sillyking1991 ... which is the default way people use the names of authors in discussion without other qualifiers.

[@munitiondragon69]

"florida [in the fey wild] would be a grand winding twilit swamp home to hundreds of hag covens consipiring against each other" so yeah, normal florida.

[@adriannalockhart9639]

Lived there 18 years. Can confirm.

[@arandomzoomer4837]

I feel like Satyrs are more fitting. They represent Florida man.

[@defensivekobra3873]

Do not live in Florida, do not understand

[@charlottewalnut3118]

defenseive kobra I’ve been there they have fairies

[@thatoneVoidDemon]

Can confirm, except throw in a couple of Satyre’s who like to fuck the hags and yeah, it’s Florida.

[@electricskull2505]

Satyr: they are just bard if the class was a race

[@knightx605]

*Satyr is now a playable race.* Well then, there is going to be a sudden increase in Bards now. XD

[@izzybluejay2379]

Now anyone can have a dash of bard in their character!

[@thecrunchyfett]

Satyr: become playable Everything that breathes: why do I hear boss music

[@D1GItAL_CVTS]

@@thecrunchyfett *why do I hear porn music

[@roarytheromanarcanine]

So it’s going back to 1st edition.

[@river7874]

"No one cares what her name is." Don't insult Mab like that.

[@wanderdragon1075]

So Runesmith is getting cursed

[@cryophile]

Any self-respecting Dresden Files fan knows the name of The Queen of Air and Darkness.

[@kannonball5789]

@@cryophile Mab can go screw herself. If Titania is straight up with me, we can talk.

[@cryophile]

@@kannonball5789 Mab will freeze your eyes solid and MAKE you talk.

[@kannonball5789]

@@cryophile There are healing spells for that. Plus, there is a Banishment spell for her specifically.

[@donaldpickering9996]

“Dryads speak for the trees and the trees say....O.K. BOOMER!” Holy..Shet

[@rompevuevitos222]

He forgot to say that they are entrancing rapists

[@BookWyrmOnAString]

*O K B O O M E R*

[@interdimensionalgoober8769]

Donald Pickering this ages poorly and become unfunny at ungodly speeds

[@DanielPereira-ey9nt]

I read that outloud and it activated my google assistant

[@urahara64360]

I would think it was the other way around but I guess not.

[@goldpeen2661]

In the immortal words of one legendary bard: ''The Feywild is my fetish buffet''

[@DrinkingandDragons]

Ah yes, the NOPE Hound, truly a majestic creature.

[@mainmanstan7405]

"More Than Kaiba's Frothy Hoes" I'd the greatest thing ever spoken in the English language.

[@vinnregi4882]

i'd buy that book

[@rorfideleon8045]

I wanna make that book

[@bardssinisterstories2607]

Dryads: I speak for the trees, and the trees say O . K . B O O M E R

[@HutTwo]

Bruh the Feywild is just that Filthy Frank meme where he just goes, “you got pranked”

[@BarkwardsShark]

Beholder ravioli ravioli what’s in the pocketoli

[@cdgonepotatoes4219]

@Bob Bobbertson some say we will see him rise again in 10000 chromosomes' time. He was trapped in a twisted portal after his final fight with Chin Chin and he needs to rest to recover his energy.

[@martinlagman]

Pink Guy is 100% from the Feywild

[@geoleo965]

*Feywild: the Hippies' actual, desired avatar.*

[@Jpteryx]

Hippies are Fey Warlocks

[@geoleo965]

@@Jpteryx I blame the hideous patchouli as the main whistleblower.

[@Renegadebane]

The Feywild is an infinite forest filled with Alice in Wonderland, every original Brother's Grimm story, all the fantasy aspects of every Miyazaki movie, and the elf parts of the Silmarillion.

[@mybalcony4066]

I like this description

[@Nemenian]

I'm so happy you addressed the fact that the fey are two sides of nature, and not good vs evil as so many people assume they are. Solid upvote for that. Well researched video :)

[@l.psimer6124]

By nature you mean one is pretty, the other is ugly, both are amoral at best and cruel / sadistic at worst.

[@planetfall5056]

3:53 Our warlock party member just sold his plus 1 sward of demon slaying to a fey prince. In exchange he now has a yethhoud bound to his will, which acts as our guard dog. ...it doesn't help us sleep any easier...

[@l.psimer6124]

Meth hounds

[@planetfall5056]

@@l.psimer6124 I completely forgot about this comment, and even that part of that DnD campaign. Thanks for bringing back good memories

[@shellknight1323]

*learns about Seele and Unseele courts* Me: oh so ones good and the other bad Runesmith: *"no, you're dum and haven't been paying attention"* Also me: ... ;3; ... *sniffle*

[@rageoftyrael]

Using a simplistic approach to morality, you would likely reasonably label them that way, especially in relation to each other. If you aren't comparing them to each other, we'd probably just think they both suck. Kind of like politics in real life.

[@redblood360]

The real difference is the way their head is up their asses

[@shellknight1323]

@@redblood360 Ahmen

[@haydenstockwell252]

The tree really should have said "Okay, bloomer."

[@kylestanley7843]

*Yes*

[@thegamingaristocrat7615]

So what happens if you make a Satyr Bard?

[@limbonlegs1662]

@@thegamingaristocrat7615 its bard^2

[@felixrowan646]

My new head-canon has Filthy Frank as Oberon, so thanks for that.

[@Benheartsart]

Welcome to hell, but this time less evil and more mentally terrifying creatures than physically

[@gabrielrussell5531]

Also when you leave there's a chance you forget everything that happened while you're there. 4E developed the lore for the Feywild a lot more. There were also more than just the two courts.

[@shellknight1323]

My favorite fairy tale book is *"Jesus and Satan in the Closet"*

[@kendallstauffer689]

"The Jesus the Satan and the clothes cupboard" XD Ah yes, by my favorite author Christopher Columbus Lewis Clark

[@whovo3059]

Ah yes the feywild where my Feylock is to go when he dies to serve the summer queen even after death.

[@thundergod9696]

I had a feylock who at the end of the campaign recovered a ring that could grant the wish spell 3x but chose to give it to my patron. That character is considered fey royalty now.

[@whovo3059]

YubYub doo Nice what a way to end

[@thundergod9696]

@@whovo3059 yah it was a fun game. Still play with the same folks but new characters. DM hinted we might return to that one one day. Best part is outside of the fey influence my character was already a noble and my DM set me up as King Arthur. It wasn't til about half way through until I discovered that my patron was relatively benevolent as an archfey. so when I learned of that ring I decided to give it to my patron for safe keeping.

[@Nyrufa]

@@thundergod9696 Funnily enough, the Wish spell is probably child's play to the queen. The Fey Wild never had its magic nerfed by Mystra, so they can do things way beyond the power of Wish.

[@rageoftyrael]

@@Nyrufa That's probably true, but I imagine that a being with no capacity towards that kind of magic giving up such a, at least for them, powerful ring would be viewed very kindly.

[@raphaelalexandreyensen6291]

Dryad in my GM's campaign: "I speak for the trees, break a branch and I break your Knees"

[@kendrickrochelanzot2053]

The Fey wild is one of the best planes. My favorite monster is the red caps

[@scotthuff271]

Want to humble a kick ass party? Toss them Scarecrows and Redcaps. Fail the wisdom save against paralysis, auto fail the dex save from the red cap. Party wipe. Fade to black.

[@kendrickrochelanzot2053]

@@scotthuff271 THATS A SICK COMBO!! Its so genius and evil!

[@scotthuff271]

@@kendrickrochelanzot2053 My DM ran this on us, he swears, by accident. But yeah. It was pretty evil

[@Wisper200]

I love you Runesmith! Your "basically" videos are amazing and your sense of humor is just stellar

[@eastull]

1:06 You really didn't copy and paste him in the description dude

[@Runesmith]

fucc

[@bernardo8993]

@@Runesmith you fool

[@korvusmangata9007]

@@Runesmith *pat pat* You did done gud

[@grayfox6930]

@@bernardo8993 thundercross split attack!

[@dairilharraz5161]

Boggles are just depression and anxiety fairies.

[@dank_smirk2ndchannel200]

Whenever I try to do a campaign in the Feywild I always love to restyle it into a mix between Ori and the Blind Forest, the Ancient Magus Bride, and Labyrinth.

[@rileygoddard7181]

I'm going to suggest to everyone to use the faewild presented in the Dresden Files universe. It's incredibly well organized and makes lots of sense. Not to mention how amazing the Dresden Files is already.

[@Overlord99762]

I'm not familiar with it, care to explain how the feywild works in the DF?

[@erlanddrow7950]

"The courts aren't good or bad." *Basically lycanthropes.* "The evil get court." 🤔

[@shenn.annagins7176]

I love how new players are like “oh cool the feywild there’s probably fairies and unicorns and shit. Hey they might be helpful!” Meanwhile I’m like “jump into the fairy circle.” Knowing full well my level 3 party members are about to get fucked up by Logan Paul but fairy.

[@calvinhayman7597]

Something to add never ever ever take something from a fey from the court. You ow them and they basically make you a slave.

[@dcyphermanplays8233]

You're a brave man talking about the queen of air and darkness 💪

[@Exkudor95]

As long as you don't speak her name thrice...

[@thetrashman1905]

And the trees say O K, B O O M E R

[@BaDSPLeR]

Please edit that doc into the description, I have read it before and it is FANTASTIC!

[@Kane-Roman]

“More Than Kaiba’s Frothy Hoes”? LMAO 😂😂😂

[@dimitriblaiddyd1845]

The whole Kaiba thing killed me very good video by the way

[@Terragor]

Hey my dude, you missed the link for "A Guide to the Feywild" in your description.

[@Runesmith]

docs.google.com/document/d/1N1W_v8kBnukfUxSEkGDAjQ6_rSzlBCtMt1Hs2PlIc6w/edit whoops, forgot to add it when I uploaded

[@you_ugly2217]

I get so excited to see your n.w videos on my feed I've watched almost everything you've put up and can't thank you enough for all the work that goes into this channel keep it up man

[@XX-sp3tt]

"Mommy, what's the fey wild?" "It's something a band of mad wizards on the coast conjured into being, and commanded everyone to pretend had always been there on penalty of death."

[@MonsterPrincessLala]

Seelie and unseelie can also be replaced with seasonal courts. This was really perfected in the game: Reign of Passions (which is unfortunately no longer a thing but did one hell of a job of applying the seasonal fae courts to the material plane)

[@generalsweet8212]

This man’s pumping out the content. Well done!

[@moonmaan]

Yours are some of the most entertaining D&D videos to watch. Thank you for your service.

[@godzilla660]

The last time I got here early my dad was walking out the door to get milk

[@Hirochicken]

Thank you for making your sponsorship entertaining and not just an uninteresting shill.

[@Hirochicken]

Good take on the Feywild too 👍

[@Com3tcandi]

*Tinker Bell messing with Wendy intensifies*

[@AnonOmis1000]

"Driads speak for the trees, and the trees say OK BOOMER" I'm fucking dying.

[@archmagemc3561]

You forgot 1 thing to make it so you survive in the Fey wilds; Become a good baker. If you can make sweet baked goods, IE what fey consider to be 'gold bars', you can basically go through the wilds without much issue. Pixies pranking you? Set out a goodberry pie and ask them to stop for the pie, they'll gladly accept and even help you. Need a favor from a fey lord? Give them a few pies and they'll be right as rain. When in Toon World, think like a toon. Bring lots and lots of pies.

[@AlphalanceVO]

"It's just a prank bro! See the scrying eye?"

[@Fallenmonkd20]

The kaiba joke was the best thing I've seen in awhile. Well done

[@ashlingkenyon49]

Great job on the video! I really like it when people cover the Feywild on KZbin. It's my favorite plane.

[@dilophosaurussk4333]

Pixie: *ITS JUST A PRANK BRO! CALM DOWN* Davvy Chappy: (Screams of eldritch fury)

[@joebranch4536]

I love your Basically series!!

[@brockwidmann9210]

I liked the lore that the fey is temporally anchored in geography. Like a specific beach will be an eternal sunrise. And another section of the forest will be midnight. Time never changes. The seasons are locations. If you want to go to the summer court, the season of summer is only located in a specific geographical area. Which also makes sense for the two courts since it's more about where they are rather than representing light or darkness.

[@hellbringer96]

"Florida would be a grand, winding, twilight swamp, home to hundreds of hag covens conspiring against each other." ....So, still just Florida, then?

[@adamkartchner3772]

Loved the video! It would be really cool if you made this into a series and did one for each plane.

[@paulbabayan6447]

I needed this my party just got to a fairy wilds

[@julianlastname5730]

Boggles also enjoy becoming 16/13 flying vigilance trample lifelinking creatures

[@joshprice4855]

That little touch of Franku at the end was perfect

[@Vincildor]

I’m making a dungeon that has portals to the Feywild and Shadowfell, I just wanted to say this video and the one you did on the Shadowfell have been super helpful for figuring out what kind of monsters to use.

[@jthompson7024]

Could not be more perfectly timed! I'm DM'ing a group about to do a whole arc around elves, eladrin, and the feywild

[@_Risa1992_]

The Dryad art is so beautiful. ❤

[@ShatterPalm]

For a guy who normally sucks at playing chaotic characters, I ADORE playing spring Eladrin. I actually giggle like an idiot and have come up with some pranks even I thought were too clever by half. Managed to trick a bandit into teleporting himself off a cliff once.

[@j.w.7608]

Can we talk about his apparently "large amount of many wigs"

[@bukharagunboat8466]

Been away from D&D for years, but had the Feywild back in 1989. "Travel through the Gates of Dawn and into the Frontier of Twilight", the party was told. Of course Lord Dunsany had Elfland in the 1920s and the Land of Dreams more than a decade earlier; these were the real inspirations. I wove in musical albums like and Close to the Edge, Broadsword and the Beast, and stories like Algernon Blackwood's The Man Who the Trees Loved and Dunsany's A Shop in Go-by Street (another portal). The Dark Elf Lord said to the party at one point, "These silver acorns are tokens, they grant each of you a wish. You must use them for another's benefit, but woe betide that they find out you did so".

[@hunterchewning6725]

I love these videos Runesmith. Thanks😊

[@oberonofcerberus7831]

Thank you for being such an inspiration.

[@thethingwithfins]

Paradise, absolute paradise.

[@Moose_vk]

Me: makes character with devil background Logan: makes Basically Devils Me: makes feywild background bard Logan: makes Basically the Feywild Loving this pattern

[@idontno6d105]

I've been waiting for some sort of video on Feywild lore, it's like you said, 1 paragraph per book.

[@pablolasagamota6215]

I would love to see the elves video!! Thank you for your work

[@turtadray7486]

The shivering isles from oblivion just began to make a whole lot more sense

[@geckgeck8616]

I love using the Feywild as an excuse to have ridiculous fairytale situations happen.

[@stormallen1490]

Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment. Elves are terrific. They beget terror. The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning. No one ever said elves are nice. Elves are bad. -Lords and Ladies, by Sir Terry Pratchett

[@Zakiel97]

I always understood the two sides of the feywild similar to mania and dementia from the shivering isles in oblivion, just with different theming

[@flaviapederzini]

I literally screamed at the dryads!

[@dragonheart1236]

The thing about the Darklings, no one actually knows what it was they did to piss off the Summer Queen. Whatever it was, it was bad enough that she erased all memories of the event

[@SrMeechio]

Opacity? You mean Saturation. 0/10 Unsubscribed. Also real question: What happened to the Positive and Negative elemental planes? Did they just get rolled into the Feywild/Shadowfell?

[@matthewszlucha3356]

They're still around! They "surround and enfold" the other planes, providing life and undeath. Also radiant and necrotic damage. And there's like two sentences about them in the Planes of Existence appendix in the back of the PHB. That's about all we've got. They are on the diagram of the planes in that same section at least. I'd say they probably influence the Feywild (positive) and the Shadowfell (negative) because the Nightwalker in Tome of Foes says that you can travel to the Negative Energy Plane from the Shadowfell in the same way you can travel to the Shadowfell from the Material Plane: in the darkest possible locations.

[@PheonixCheeseStudios]

This is very helpful, my party is in the feywilds right now and well one of them dose not like pranks.

[@FirstLast-cg2nk]

It's important to remember that light and dark don't equal good and evil. Midnight in winter will kill you with frostbite, but noon in summer will kill you with heatstroke. In both situations, you're equally dead. Instead, the Fey courts are like the seasons: Both have good and bad sides, but ultimately, both don't especially care if you live or die. The main difference between the Fey and the seasons is that *the seasons don't actually take pleasure from your suffering.*

[@cocososupergeek]

5:25 Oh, so Florida's exactly the same

[@Kdawg263]

Aw heck yeah new basically vid!!!

[@franss22]

That's not opacity, that's saturation! >:^V great vid btw

[@dankelso3865]

Love the videos man. One day you should to a basically Yaun-ti

[@sarahmatthews5878]

Oh my god! Your voice is so incredible! I like the video too.

[@ShankMugen]

I would love a video about the lore of elves, and it would be really cool if you could make a video about each of the playable races as well

[@TerrariaGolem]

Fey: *Asks for compensation after helping said party* Everyone, but Rogue: "Gives an item." Rogue: *"I give you my farewell"* Fey: "Okay, cool. Farewell noble adventurers!" Everyone, but Rogue: "Farewell!" Rogue: *"Oh god. Oh fuck."*

[@TerrariaGolem]

Me, The DM: I was so proud of the Necromancer, he gave a diamond, despite group protest (the Fay did save the group from the dire wolf pack he pissed off) ... I rewarded him with a phylactery encrusted with Diamonds at the end of the campaign. It was a new player too. The others were rewarded accordingly... The Rogue got his farewell everytime the group departed an important NPC... i.e. Thieves Guild Master: "Farewell!" I had to rub it in. Hey, at least he didn't give the wee fey bastard this phrase: "I give you my thanks" he'd be a very unthankful guy if he did. Though. I wasn't to harsh, he could still say "goodbye", but his character's catchphrase for escapes was "Farewell" until that fateful level 6 wrong choice. He got a little agitated when I said he could no longer say, "farewell", cause he was confused as to why, but in seconds the look on my face made him laugh so hard in his own self-realization, that I slapped my knee 3 times & screeched cause I was so relieved he understood. My first time as a DM. I never used that Fey until the equivalent of "D&D post-game cutscenes", it was a Pixie.

[@CuteKuroki]

That last "you just got pranked" scared the hell out of me lmao

[@albinocyclopse9952]

One of my players is searching for her family in the Fey and I've been researching so much horror and Folklore to draw inspiration from

[@gabrielpasquino4270]

I believe another feature of the Feywild is when you leave you lose all memories of it

[@End3rDJgaming]

I like the idea that there's a bunch of weird bug people that fuck with tripping people, all for shits and giggles.

[@Bayani01]

Sounds like the ideal vacation spot!

[@scambroselauntrellus3681]

I remember a one-off campaign in the Feywild where we encountered a floating pizza the size of the Independence Day mothership.

[@ryanstibbles7995]

Bro I literally love you

[@LucasDeziderio]

4:57 I really wasn't expecting a Steven Universe reference here, but I'm very glad there's one!!

[@keegendzurko627]

Basically the Underdark next, please!

[@jclarkent3757]

I definitely need a runesmith vid on elves