Editing Faerie Courts (section)

==== Low Spring ====
Akin to High Spring but without the human appearance; "dressing themselves in chitin, spiderwebs, and skins while they deal in nightmares and upstaging one another in the torments they can inflict".<ref name=":2" /> Relatively progressive, but otherwise quite dubious by human standards.<ref name=":11" /> They make use of modern celebrity culture a great deal, blending modern technology and aesthetics in with the archaic, and are leaders in fashion and trends among the Fae.<ref>Maricica Says (about Dark Spring)…  She’s been there twice and she thinks it’s fun???<br><br>She says it’s like the equivalent of one of us getting to go to the red carpet stuff at Hollywood.  They have beautiful Faerie, even among other Fae, and cutthroat, sometimes literally cut throat, fashion.  There’s a major blend of our celebrity stuff with old stuff, with an intensity and attention to the art of things that leads the trends in other courts.  It drives High Spring Fae crazy, the last century or so.  These are Fae who use guns and swords at the same time, build skyscrapers and castles in the same places, and make it mesh.  Which I (Avery) do have to admit, sounds cool.<br><br> - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/08 5.2 Bonus]: [[Faerie Courts & Goblins]]</ref><ref name=":12">The impression Lucy, Verona and I get is they like celebrity and trends and hip new things, but there’s an underlying culture of those in charge ruling over those on the bottom, and they rule with fear.  Key words that keep popping up are art, emotion, tragedy, pain, darkness.  They like bugs and bone decoration, wearing skin, but really, each ruler designs their own realm with rules and aesthetic.  Verona says it’s like what would happen if all of our childhood cartoons ended with the bad guys killing the princess and taking over the kingdom and they were all one setting. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/08 5.2 Bonus]: [[Faerie Courts & Goblins]]</ref> Their glamour focuses on negative emotion, on tragedy and horror. Powerful Dark Spring fae may mimic the powers of human [[Practitioners]].<ref name=":13">Guilherme says: decorum and rules matter here.  Know how a Lady should act, how to defer to rank, and show respect.  In the Bright Spring, these things may be the golden threads they use to hang you.  In the Spring Below, the lack of decorum is their justification to destroy you, and it would be a long and slow destroying.  Their glamour is focused on the darker emotions, pulling on heartstrings, and they can read you at a glance and know exactly where your weak points are.  Strong Fae of this court can emulate other practices with Glamour, so know your way around curses and summoned Others.  The lowly Fae of this court are most dangerous, for they brim with resentment and will not wait for a social misstep.  - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/08 5.2 Bonus]: [[Faerie Courts & Goblins]]</ref><ref name=":12" />

Low Spring is divided into a number of smaller courts, each fiefdom with a somewhat different aesthetic and ruler. Their culture is based around fear, hierarchy, and strict rules.<ref name=":13" /><ref name=":12" /> 

[[Daniel Alitzer]] was held captive by this Court, forced to sing an endless song of mourning for their dead Queen.<ref name=":7">Shellie, 27, is a Bright-Eyed human woman, caretaker of her brother, a 30 year old Glamour Drowned. Sold to the Faerie by their own parents as children, they were separated, Shellie sent to the Bright Fall court, and Daniel to the Dark Spring.<br><br>Daniel Alitzer was made to bear witness to the death of an immortal queen of the Dark Spring, an event contrived to evoke a sense of tragedy never before seen. [...] Shellie spent a total of eighteen years among Faerie brokers, hieves, and Fae who traded in faces like money. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/17 Bonus Material: Dossiers]</ref>