Editing Faerie Courts (section)

==== High Spring ====
Features "aristocrats and gilded things, parties, fine craftsmanship and even finer, craftier lies",<ref name=":1">“High spring, aristocrats and gilded things, parties, fine craftsmanship
 and even finer, craftier lies. High fall, melodramatic and brooding, tangled in human ways and things, they play for keeps, with beginnings and endings in mind.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/06/13 excerpt] from [[Stolen Away 2.2]]</ref> "emulates human aristocracy and celebrity".<ref name=":2">“The courts below are dark shadows of the ones above. The High Spring emulates human aristocracy and celebrity, the Dark Spring does away with the humanity and replaces it with the monstrous, dressing themselves in chitin, spiderwebs, and skins while they deal in nightmares and upstaging one another in the torments they can inflict. The Dark Summer instead lost their Faerie nature, mingling too much with distant and opposed Others, because they fought them for too long, or they took them as allies one too many time. Imagine the monsters of fairy tales, and you would not be far amiss.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/06/13/stolen-away-2-2/ excerpt] from [[Stolen Away 2.2]]</ref> They excel at effectively lying without technically breaking their word, and consist of nobility and high society without any society beneath.<ref>They’re really really really good at lying without actually saying lies.<br><br>Words that keep coming up are queens and princes, lords and ladies, and other titles.  Some of this stuff comes up with other courts, but with High Spring stuff seems to start and finish with it.<br><br>Other stuff includes gold and silk, politics and political intrigue, and ‘high society’ thing like parties and balls, but without the society beneath to justify it. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/08 5.2 Bonus]: [[Faerie Courts & Goblins]]</ref> They deal mostly with other Faerie, and tend to be inexperienced with everything else. They tend to suffer from more concentrated versions of the normal Fae weaknesses, and must employ other courts as warriors.<ref name=":10">Guilherme says:  They build cities with their glamour, and build illusions of something bigger with their words.  They don’t oft interact with the Fairy or humanity, and this is a boon.  You can catch them off guard.  They wish dearly to keep up with the time and trends, but struggle to do so because of courtly obligation.  Use this when negotiating with them.  Offer them a lesson in modern culture.<br><br>Toadswallow’s Take on High Spring<br>(I went over what I wrote down and what Guil & Maricica said)<br><br>Their twit glitter is flimsy and fragile.  They’re Faerie who mostly deal with other Faerie and mess with Practitioners so think of them like concentrated Faerie.  Insufferable tits.<br><br>T.S. thinks Faerie started out with glamour and got good at the social stuff as a way to help sell it and distract people long enough for the glamour to ‘set’ and High Spring Faerie are concentrated versions of this.  To deal with them, he says, you have to fight decorum and fancy.  Be a jerk, be crude, catch them off guard.  Kick in the door, crap on the floor and insult them to their faces.  Question everything and don’t let them tell you something’s gold without biting it to test the softness.<br><br>In the High Spring court you’re going to find a lot of snooty arrogance from ‘twits’ (T.S.’s word) who can’t fight to back it up.  They are really bad at fighting, apparently, but they use other courts to get soldiers or ‘knights’ that they keep close in case of problems. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/08 5.2 Bonus: Faerie Courts & Goblins]</ref> Archaic and old-fashioned.<ref name=":11">So apparently the Dark Spring courts are way more ‘with the times’ than the Spring court, with a lot of the modern mixed in with the medieval.  The upside, as I understand it, is they’re fastest on the uptake with stuff like sexuality and gender identity and race, where High Spring Fae aren’t even caught up all the way wit this ''century''.  That’s about the only good thing I’ve heard about them. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/08 5.2 Bonus]: [[Faerie Courts & Goblins]]</ref>

They often construct illusionary cities.<ref name=":10" /> Might keep [[Glamour Drowned]] humans as dancers, competing to train the best one.<ref name=":6">''Many of the Glamour Drowned were used for a specific function. In the High Spring court, for example, they may be endless dancers, trained by Faerie to dance as a competitive act, where one Faerie competes against another to see who can elevate a human more. The Fall courts may turn them into animals to sell to the other courts as pets and accessories, with the ability to turn them human on a whim because it is easier to set aside a place for a human than, for example, a twenty-foot serpent. The winter court may turn a person into an object, such as a goblet that is asked to tell riddles, or a tapestry that changes to keep track of the days in reailty.'' - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/17 Bonus Material: Dossiers]</ref>