D&D's Shadowfell and Feywild Explained

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• LE

  @lelandwhitehead56 · 8 years ago (edited)

  As I understand it based on this video, The feywild is Mania, the Shadowfell is Depression.

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• AX

  @AxiomofDiscord · 9 years ago

  When I think Feywild I think Wonderland. When I think Shadowfell I think Swamps of Sadness.

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• CO

  @colinsmith1495 · 9 years ago

  The Shadowfell makes sense to me. &nbsp;It&apos;s the realm of decay and entropy. &nbsp;The Feywild doesn&apos;t. &nbsp;And it shouldn&apos;t. &nbsp;I like to think that the Feywild is actually one of the Far Realms that wondered too close and collided with the Prime Material. &nbsp;It stuck and molded itself after the Prime Material, but ultimately it still works by its own rules, not ours. &nbsp;The creatures of the Feywild may <b>look</b> like things from the Prime, but they&apos;re ultimately strange and alien and incomprehensible to us.

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• FU

  @funwithmadness · 9 years ago

  By far the best explanation of these two realms I have ever heard.

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• JE

  @JerboUX · 9 years ago

  I enjoy this little bits of lore and world description. Keep uploading more of this. Maybe going into one faction at a time, dig into VIPs in the world. important cities, world changing events. All of that. Keep it up!

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• AT

  @aTepacheGuy · 8 years ago

  I now realize that this is very much what inspired Mania and Dementia from The Shivering Isles

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• KY

  @KyleMaxwell · 9 years ago

  I feel like WotC has been hinting very strongly that the next storyline (after ToA) will focus on the Feywild.

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• MI

  @mikegould6590 · 9 years ago

  Okay, I normally give Mearls a lot of crap, but THIS was brilliant. Thank you. The difference between the Feywild and the Shadowfell remind me of the World of Darkness and it&apos;s overarching concepts of the Wilde, the Wyrm, and the Weaver. Growth/Death/Stasis. Examining the Feywild and the Shadowfell in an emotional context brings a new understanding.<br><br>Thank you for that.

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• DA

  @DabIMON · 9 years ago

  THIS is what the Feywild is like in my campaign setting. One Feylord for each primary emotion!

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• LE

  @leonardoraele · 8 years ago

  I love this video. His descriptions of the shadowfell and feywild are very inspiring.

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• JM

  @jmerranko77 · 8 years ago

  Watching this video alone can plant the seeds for so many different campaign ideas.

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• DA

  @DaDunge · 5 years ago

  It&apos;s funny we&apos;re playing curse of Stradh and my barbarian commented after meeting Stradh that despite Stradh&apos;s professions of Godhood and immortality he was essentially just a corpse that walked and talked having lost the drive that make mortal creatures such dynamic agents of change. Seems like I was thinking along the same lines as you.

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