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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 Tragic Unveiling
  
• Chapter Four The Kith War
  
• Chapter Five Birth of The Children of Spring
  
• Chapter Six The Redeemer War
  
• Chapter Seven The Forest Court
  
• Chapter Eight The Protector Wars
  
• Chapter Nine The Last Consortium
  
• Chapter Ten The Punishment
  
• Chapter Eleven The Rebirth
  
• Chapter Twelve The Stories and Legends
  
• Chapter Thirteen The Art Gallery
  
• Appendix A Castellum Argentus
  
• Appendix B Customs and Traditions
  
• Appendix C Ecology of the Sun 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. an Oak totem Fey might be named the Latin word for Leaf or Branch rather than the Latin word for Oak). 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.
  
• Tone and Style: Remember that these are stories as written by Bards. They will be grandiose and wordy to impress a noble court.
  
• 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

How, may you ask, did our people, long sealed from the world of men in Tir Nan Og, find the means to cross back into that realm? It is a matter of family that created the ways that lead to and from our home. Listen now and learn the tale of Cantio, the spell singer, and the bonds of family which changed the course of our history.

A decade had passed in the Fey realm by our own perceptions, whilst only a year had passed by in the worlds of men. Such is the way of things between realms. All had been peaceful and quiet among the Fey, but there was one who lived in a state of great unrest. Cantio, a sorceress of great power, was not pleased with the fey folk's departure from the realm of man.

During the time that the Tuatha de Danaan had wandered before settling in the Great Kingdom, Cantio's grandfather had loved a mortal woman and with her sired three girls, triplets. When the Kingdom was established, Cantio's grandfather's love and his daughters remained close with their Tuathan kin. Generations were born, and Cantio, like her grandfather, fell in love with one not of the tribe who dwelt nearby her blood kin.

When the final wars came and the Tuatha de Danaan were forced to depart, she had to leave her love behind, as well as the kin that were not fully of Tuathan blood. This included her own son. She grieved deeply, but none of the fey folk could remain behind.

No one could bring her from her mourning, and she sequestered herself in a tower where she studied day and night for a means to learn how her distant family fared. She researched and devised a spell which would allow her to peer by the light of the moon into a small pond within a ring of enchanted mushrooms hidden deep in the wood. There she would go every day, and sit at the edge of the ring, and watch her love and their son live their daily lives.

But there was one of the court who desired Cantio for his own, and had been refuted by her time and again. Invidia followed her one night and watched her weep as she watched her family from afar. Furious that she would spurn him over simple mortals, he drew his blade and plunged it through her heart. She collapsed into the ring, and her lifeblood soaked into the pond's water and the mushroom ring was crushed beneath her. The bloody water drained into the soil and the pond was never filled again. Invidia buried her body beneath the soil of the mushrooms.

At the next full moon the magical mushrooms sprouted again, and this time they took on a luminescence. The burial earth within the ring rippled like water when a young scout, still searching the woods for the missing sorceress stumbled into the ring, and vanished. 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's lover and her son. 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 magic, love, and blood. It was later learned that with Cantio's passing, a bond of magic between the worlds was created. Whenever someone of great magical power, who loved one in the world of men died by violence, where they were buried another faerie ring would appear at the next full moon.

Through the rings anyone could pass, and there was no means to secure them until much, much later. So it was that family and dear friends, and the occasional stranger, would wander into the Realm of Fey, and occasional Fey would be sighted in the Realm of Men.