Editing Faerie Courts (section)

==== High Summer ====
Features "wine and adventure, romances and tragedies, and simpler ballads of those led astray. Heroes, courage, and the threads of epics braiding together and into one another [...] nature and summer, touched by sun."<ref name=":0" /> "Adventure, festival, and pleasant debauchery".<ref name=":3">“Yes, I do think it scares ''him'',” Maricica murmured, and she slid her bare arm out from beneath the wings she had wrapped herself in, along Verona’s neck and shoulder, pointing at Guilherme. “The court of High Summer is the court that loses the most Faerie to Winter. Adventure, festival, and leasant debauchery can only tide you over for so long. Of import: The court of Autumn Below loses the least.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/06/13 excerpt] from [[Stolen Away 2.2]]</ref> "heroes and adventures [...] romances, comedies, and tragedies.  Epics and dramatic moments." Perhaps the only court to focus on romantic love. Closely associated with duels and duelling.<ref>The court of heroes and adventures, ranging all over.  They seem to focus a lot on specific stories: romances, comedies, and tragedies.  Epics and dramatic moments.<br><br>Concepts that keep coming up include duels, (they’re good at fighting fancy) + relationships (can’t think of any other Faerie stuff where relationships have even been mentioned).  - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/08 5.2 Bonus]: [[Faerie Courts & Goblins]]</ref>

This court serves as the army of Faerie and guards the borders of the Courts, every soldier a unique hero fighting for the spotlight. They make use of lesser Others as underlings, and members of the darker Courts as spies and sabeteurs.<ref name=":14">Guilherme, who doesn’t pose like in my picture, says…<br>High Summer holds the borders of the Faerie realm.  We cover the widest territories and when Faerie goes to war with outside forces, we are oft at the front of the war, not as an army of stock soldiers, but as an army of thousands of heroes worthy of their own myths.  We know the heart of Glamour.  We see when abyssal forces linger on our borders for long enough they take some Fae into themselves, and eat and breathe Glamour for long enough.  We must often confront the weaknesses of the very arts we use, or else our enemies will confront us with it instead.  Keep it close to our Self and our hearts, strengthen that Self and that heart, and it will endure.  Our enemies will not.<br><br>Maricica says…<br>It’s an army of soldiers fighting to be better than all the rest.  To fail to stand out is to fail to be a proper Summer faerie.  You cannot manage an army that way.  Look past their rank and file of heroes with titles and you’ll see the bandages and ploys that they use to shore up what doesn’t truly work.  A King + Queen who properly belong in Winter, forces of centaurs and minotaurs to shore up their number and give them lessers to order around, and the agents of darker courts, like mine, who use subterfuge to kneecap the enemy when too many of Summer’s decide to put great heroic plans into action when a simple patrol or patient siege would do instead.  All around the edges of this vast and pretty realm of theirs are the signs of the compromises they made with other things.  Some goblin-adjacent, some Fairy, even some abyssal.  But only if they are pretty enough, or are willing to be decked out in pretty armor and hide their faces.   - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/08 5.2 Bonus: Faerie Courts & Goblins]</ref><ref>Toadswallow’s input on High Summer:<br>You’ve heard me say it and I’ll say it again.  They don’t know how to fight.  Fighting is scrapping.  They duel all pretty and they act offended when the other guy kicks them in the knee and bites off their man nipples.<br><br>They’re drama nerds, hippies, and larpers who didn’t earn the muscles, height, or other assets they’ve got.  A lot of them didn’t earn the stories they tell, embellishing until they believe it.  If some honey-mead scented oaf of a Fae is calling herself the Knight of the Red Pyre, don’t go fighting her and letting her set you on fire.  Go look at the title.  Especially with the lesser ones who are trying to stand shoulder to shoulder with their important buddies, dig into the story and look for witnesses.  That’s how you break them.<br><br>Those fauns, minotaurs, and whatever elses?  Most of them are starved for a bit of normal after spending decades with these oafs who suck their own- They’ve only got a couple of their own ilk to hang with.  Crack a joke at your own expense, share a drink, and they’ll be your best friends.  Good way to get the dirt you need.  - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/08 5.2 Bonus: Faerie Courts & Goblins]</ref> As part of this mission, they often establish outposts at [[Crossroads]] between Realms, especially the places Faerie realms border on the [[Warrens]] or [[Abyss]].<ref name=":9" /> 

Loses the most to Winter.<ref name=":3" /> Ruled over by a King and Queen who arguably have already fallen to Winter themselves.<ref name=":14" />

Includes [[Guilherme]].