In exchange for its innumerable rituals and festivities, the Spring's Bargain places a geas on would-be True Fae attackers. An effective Emerald Court also utilizes their diplomatic skills to grease the wheels of freehold politics. Low Spring: When other Courts lead, Spring often takes the role of a support group, keeping the freeholders happy and healthy similarly, it maintains the freehold's quality of life, producing goblin fruits and establishing gardens. To some extent, this is a necessity: celebrations are often the means by which they keep their Bargain with their patron what's more, these activities can help boost the morale of the freehold, in the hopes that happy changelings will be more likely to aid one another in times of need. High Spring: When Spring is ascendant, its courtiers live lavishly and attempt to draw their fellows into their revels. This is not entirely inaccurate: drawing power from your desires ensures that focusing on what you do not want weakens you. Other Courts, at times, hold them in contempt for what they see as denial of the true state of things, the danger in which the Lost constantly find themselves. Unfortunately, the Court is vulnerable to brute force, leaving them to rely on their fellows.
Spring courtiers often see through the honeyed words of the Gentry and their ilk easily. Courtiers of the Antler Crown are particularly aware of changelings' reliance on human emotion, and on the temptations that can come with it.
This Court understands well the power of passion - that which fuels ambition and art that which turns survival into living. We are beautiful because we refuse to be defined by them. We are beautiful, my dears, not because we have no scars. Often denied a place in freeholds' seasonal cycle, these Lost rarely have a firm grip on Clarity. The Mantles of such changelings are tense and unpredictable - at times eerily still, placid, and other times bearing flesh that ripples and whips away from them in gale-torn ribbons, with eyes gunmetal gray like the sky before a tornado strikes.Īnything that’s flawless is false. The courtiers, little different than the tornado that leaves a swathe of destruction in its wake, eagerly use others and themselves without a thought to the consequences. These courtiers' Mantles are wild and untamed bright, different-colored eyes are common, as is the growth of greenery or fur from the body and the spreading of pheromones from the pores.Īlso known as Whirlwind Spring, this Court focuses on the darker side of desire. The fickle and indecisive changelings of this Court follow the animal instincts that precipitate the rapid growth. As Mantle rises, the surroundings begin to be affected by this growth.Īlso known as Short Spring, this variant on the Spring Court represents a particular shade of desire: lust. The Mantle of Spring courtiers often manifests as some shade of revitalization, be it a lovely breeze or the images of slowly growing plants around the changeling. The Contract of Verdant Spring permits the caster to channel passion into action.The Contract of Eternal Spring holds the powers of growth and rejuvenation.The Contract of Fleeting Spring allows the user to manipulate desire in a target or targets.Another popular gathering is the Homecoming, a hedonistic festival celebrating the anniversary of the current Monarch of Spring's escape from Faerie occasionally, other Spring Court members can be honored as well. The ritual is famous not only among members of the Antler Crown, but among all changeling courts all secretly desire an invitation because they also know that the members of the Spring Court will attempt, in the course of the Revel, to make one of their desires come true. One of the most famous rituals the Spring Court holds is the Spring Revel, performed when winter officially passes into spring. Members are not only allowed to fulfill their own desires, but must help other Spring Court members in their pursuit of desire. To become a full-fledged member of the court means one must live a literally beautiful life, and members that cannot do so are made to feel outcast. The members of the Spring Court seek to not only forget their past, but to also add grace and beauty to everything they do. However, she felt she could not keep it and gave it away, some say to Spring herself, to forge the pact that created a court in Spring's honor. Rendered infertile by her time in Faerie, she made a number of deals with other entities that, in the end, allowed her to bear one. The founder of the Spring Court is said to be Mother Susan, a changeling who desired to have a child more than anything else.