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Table of Contents

• Preface Introduction to the Chronicles of Luna Regia
  
• Table of Contents Chapter Links and Submission Rules
  
• Chapter One
• The Tuatha de Danaan
  
• Chapter Two The Faerie Ring
  
• Chapter Three The Hunting of the Fey
  
• Chapter Four The Blood War
  
• Chapter Five Birth of The Autumn People
  
• Chapter Six The Century War
  
• Chapter Seven The Forest Court
  
• Chapter Eight The Betrayal Wars
  
• Chapter Nine The Last Consortium
  
• Chapter Ten The Curse
  
• Chapter Eleven The Rebirth
  
• Chapter Twelve The Stories and Legends
  
• Chapter Thirteen The Art Gallery
  
• Appendix A Castellum Umbra
  
• Appendix B Customs and Traditions
  
• Appendix C Ecology of the Moon Court
  

Submission Rules

Do you have a desire to add to the chronicles? If so, you may submit stories or art to Sajhiri via PM. Please note the following guidelines:

• Character Names: Fey names are typically reflective of their totem. The recent fey are the Latin name of their totem itself, but earlier fey were named for Latin terms for aspects of their totem rather than directly named for the totem itself. (i.e. a Cat totem Fey might be named the Latin word for Claw or Hiss rather than the Latin word for Cat). This is to preserve direct totem names for new Fey.
  
• Details: Be sure you have an understanding of the period you're writing in, and how the fey of that period behaved. Also be sure you understand the magic system if magic plays a part of your story.
  
• T one and Style: Remember that these are stories as written by Tribal Storytellers. They will be shamanic and parable-like in nature rather than ornate novellas.
  
• Art Content: Portraiture is welcome, as are scene depictions from the stories. Please only do art of already posted scenes, Fey mentioned in the posted stories, or the current crop of Fey being RPed.
  
• Art Size/Format: Please keep all artwork in JPG format if possible. A thumbnail will be made for each piece to be placed in this thread and linked to the place I will upload the full version, so size constraints are not too much of an issue. Please try to keep the images under 500K in filesize though.
  

The Faerie Ring

Men have their fools, and the Fey have theirs as well. Take this tale as warning of the foolishness of meddling with men.

Time passes swifter in our realm than the slow moving world of hated men.We lived in peace for 10 years by our reckoning, when a woman of magic, a fool who gave her heart to a mortal, in her foolhardy matter of heart reopened that which had been closed for good reason. Cantio the Spell Singer will forever be marked in infamy.

She and her grandsire before her were like animals, lying with men rather than with their own kind. They tainted the purity of the blood, and held these base creatures dear. When we were realeased to the safety and protection of Tir Nan Og, and allowed to finally remove ourselves from the foul presence of Mankind, Cantio was forced to leave her pet man behind, and the whelp she'd birth by him.

She mourned like a widow over these animals, and refuted the love of a warrior who had been betrothed to her by birthright. Instead, like a thief, she stole out of her tower each night to peer into an enchanted pond ringed by magical mushrooms she had warped with magics to spy on her pets in man's realm.

The noble Invidia followed her one night and when he devised her treachery, her threat to the compact that opened this place of refuge to us, he drew his blade and plunged it through her heart. But the witch being the foul thing she was, cursed us with her last breath. He buried her in the soil that had once been the enchanted window to man's world.

At the next full moon the magical mushrooms sprouted again, and glowed with a sinister light. The burial earth sucked in a young scout who was searching the woods for the missing sorceress. He appeared in the world of men, inside a ring which had grown there in mirror of the one in Tir Nan Og, outside the home of Cantio'spet and their whelp. He found he could cross back through the barrier, and returned to report it to the wise ones.

Thus it was that the first Faerie ring was created by treachery and curse. It was later learned that with Cantio's passing, her curse took hold. Whenever someone of great magical power, and a weakness for mortals was rightfully slain for their foul weakness, where they were buried another cursed ring would appear at the next full moon.

Through the rings anyone could pass between the worlds, fey and foul alike, and there was no means to secure them until much, much later. So it was that mankind would wander into the Realm of Fey, and treacherous men-loving Fey would be sighted in the Realm of Men.