(Just so you know this prompt has been answered however, I encourage you to post here for others with questions like mine!) Hello! So my tiefling named Valerie was raised in the feywild. Its the thing that she's built on however, I don't know how she would have ended up there (I'm new to the community therefore unfamiliar with the lore) so could someone give me ideas on how my character would have ended up there? Yes, I should already have figured this out given it's one of the most crucial bits in her story but, I didn't so now I'm here.
It depends on how young she was when she went there. If she was a baby, she could have been taken by fey and swapped with a changeling. If she was old enough to walk, she could have wandered away from her family and accidently gone through a fey crossing and landed up there.
A tiefling born in the Feywild in the world of Exandria (the world of Crit Role) Could be connected to Naviask, a Balor cursed by an archfey to become a nice protector of nature.
I think that's the lore. I'll have to double check later
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One English legend tells of how a man was kidnapped by the fey to be their chaplain. It could be cool to play a captive Cleric who serves as the priest for a fey court. Maybe they just escaped but they are being pursued by the fey that captured them.
Maybe as a child you had a sort of "imaginary" friend who was actually a fey spirit. One day they lured, tricked, or invited you into the feywild and you have never been able to return home.
In the old tales, the fey often kidnap mortals so that they will be nurses for their children. Maybe you are a captive babysitter.
This one is wacky, but what if you were a traveler who stepped on a stray sod. Stray sod's are enchanted clumps of grass or flowers and stepping on them magically bamboozles the minds so that you could be lost in your own front lawn. What if you stepped on one, it magically melded with your heel, and it transported you to the feywild. Now you are a fey wanderer ranger with grass growing out of your foot.
Rabbit holes sure can be tricky.
Maybe your reflection swapped places with you. Now you are trapped in the feywild and an opposite version of yourself is loose in the real world.
She was sucked through a portal that randomly opened in her left boot. Or she read a book about an adventure in the feywild, and as she read, she realised the character in the book was her, and she was really reading a book about a child in the prime material plane who lost herself in the pages of a book, and that's how she was stolen from her mother and replaced by a changeling, and now she was the stolen child of a wicked fey.
Of the two, I'd go with the second.
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You could possibly put that your village thought you a demon child, and forced a powerful mage into using a plane shift spell to send you to feywild. They are a ton of ways you could do this, maybe your parents were adventurers who got stuck in feywild, and had a kid. Really though, anything could work as long as it makes sense.
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A wizard opens a rift in the wall in front of you, walks through, and eyes you, eyes glowing a brilliant blue. “Where are the beans?” He says menacingly, gritting his teeth in frustration. Suddenly squirrels pour out of the rift and swarm over you.
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In Wild Beyond the Witchlight there is a background specifically for characters who came from somewhere else and ended up in the Feywild as children only to return to their home plane just in time to start an adventuring career. A very brief purely narrative excerpt from a small portion of one of the opening descriptive paragraphs of that background (so not enough to qualify as a rules violation) states:
”Perhaps you were spirited away by kindly Fey who thought you were destined for great things. Perhaps you stumbled through a fey crossing by chance during a twilight stroll in the woods. Perhaps you were kidnapped by evil Fey but escaped from their clutches.”
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(Just so you know this prompt has been answered however, I encourage you to post here for others with questions like mine!) Hello! So my tiefling named Valerie was raised in the feywild. Its the thing that she's built on however, I don't know how she would have ended up there (I'm new to the community therefore unfamiliar with the lore) so could someone give me ideas on how my character would have ended up there? Yes, I should already have figured this out given it's one of the most crucial bits in her story but, I didn't so now I'm here.
It depends on how young she was when she went there. If she was a baby, she could have been taken by fey and swapped with a changeling. If she was old enough to walk, she could have wandered away from her family and accidently gone through a fey crossing and landed up there.
What if she was born there? She knows this much but not why her birth parents were in the Feywild at the time of her birth.
Maybe they were fleeing something, or they accidentally crossed over and are now kept to entertain some fey power, etc.?
This keeps things open and helps your DM work that backstory into their story ideas (maybe)!
A tiefling born in the Feywild in the world of Exandria (the world of Crit Role) Could be connected to Naviask, a Balor cursed by an archfey to become a nice protector of nature.
I think that's the lore. I'll have to double check later
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One English legend tells of how a man was kidnapped by the fey to be their chaplain. It could be cool to play a captive Cleric who serves as the priest for a fey court. Maybe they just escaped but they are being pursued by the fey that captured them.
Maybe as a child you had a sort of "imaginary" friend who was actually a fey spirit. One day they lured, tricked, or invited you into the feywild and you have never been able to return home.
In the old tales, the fey often kidnap mortals so that they will be nurses for their children. Maybe you are a captive babysitter.
This one is wacky, but what if you were a traveler who stepped on a stray sod. Stray sod's are enchanted clumps of grass or flowers and stepping on them magically bamboozles the minds so that you could be lost in your own front lawn. What if you stepped on one, it magically melded with your heel, and it transported you to the feywild. Now you are a fey wanderer ranger with grass growing out of your foot.
Rabbit holes sure can be tricky.
Maybe your reflection swapped places with you. Now you are trapped in the feywild and an opposite version of yourself is loose in the real world.
She was sucked through a portal that randomly opened in her left boot. Or she read a book about an adventure in the feywild, and as she read, she realised the character in the book was her, and she was really reading a book about a child in the prime material plane who lost herself in the pages of a book, and that's how she was stolen from her mother and replaced by a changeling, and now she was the stolen child of a wicked fey.
Of the two, I'd go with the second.
Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.
She took a wrong turn at Albuquerque.
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When it comes to the fey, just about anything is plausible.
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You could possibly put that your village thought you a demon child, and forced a powerful mage into using a plane shift spell to send you to feywild. They are a ton of ways you could do this, maybe your parents were adventurers who got stuck in feywild, and had a kid. Really though, anything could work as long as it makes sense.
(He/Him)
A wizard opens a rift in the wall in front of you, walks through, and eyes you, eyes glowing a brilliant blue. “Where are the beans?” He says menacingly, gritting his teeth in frustration. Suddenly squirrels pour out of the rift and swarm over you.
Hi. I really like squirrels, reading, and D&D (obviously). Uh, yeah. I also GM 👍.
In Wild Beyond the Witchlight there is a background specifically for characters who came from somewhere else and ended up in the Feywild as children only to return to their home plane just in time to start an adventuring career. A very brief purely narrative excerpt from a small portion of one of the opening descriptive paragraphs of that background (so not enough to qualify as a rules violation) states:
”Perhaps you were spirited away by kindly Fey who thought you were destined for great things. Perhaps you stumbled through a fey crossing by chance during a twilight stroll in the woods. Perhaps you were kidnapped by evil Fey but escaped from their clutches.”