What sort of police/court would a Feywild settlement have? If any? How would rulings be made, when crime happens?
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What sort of police/court would a Feywild settlement have? If any? How would rulings be made, when crime happens?
Feywild is a plane of True Neutrality so justice would likely be purely retributive.
Probably arbitrary from a normal human's perspective. I can see the fey trying to mimic human courts without understanding the underpinning rules and nuance as long as it matches a story they heard about a court hearing in a book. Whole systems and rise and be thrown out on the matter of a year, to be replaced by the next fey lord's flight of fancy.
So the Dark Assembly from Disgaea, right?
Bribe the ones that vote against you with candy or toy guns, some of the ones on your side may fall asleep, cos it's nap time and they didn't want to be there anyway. Wake them up with bombs, the other senators get hit in the blast.
Then you fight to the death anyway. All over the price of a charred newt. It didn't get better.
In "Disgaea D2", Laharl becomes the hottest girl for an episode, then turns back:
Later, in the Dark Assembly, you can launch a vote to turn Laharl back into a girl, and unless Laharl is a senator himself, the vote always passes.
It's the most feywild society shit ever, but unfortunately, it's so shoujo-anime-video-game that it rots your teeth if you play for too long.
Wild Hunt.
It would be absurdly exaggerated version of police/guard from material plane, Lewis Carol style. And instead of jail people would be turned into something ugly.
This.
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are generally great sources for Fey shenanigans.
This is cool idea. Any more concrete bizarre ideas on how such a"court" would work? I'm kinda shit at goofy/bizzare.
Police are huntsmen dragging criminals back to the local authoritative Fae entity.
The Court is just whatever the hell that entity decides.
None. The very idea is thematically incompatible.
I mean they could have fun and put on a show trial for their own amusement, but yeah, more likely someone pisses them off and they do something mischievous but not quite cruel with no explanation or warning
High chance of the separation of court rullings and the execution of these rullings. Basically like in the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth where the nobles were expected to execute rullings themselves.
>How would rulings be made, when crime happens?
Off with their heads!
Tim Burton feywild or Brothers Grimm feywild?
IIRC Changeling: The Lost sort of had a spin on it. What the fey say and do is law, but they sometimes need enforcers to get shit done for them, and that's up to their Changeling servants and human "huntsmen".
Magical gestapo
The guilty would be forced into the human world, deprived of their connection to the Feywild?
Dragon Prince had an interesting idea where criminals were "ghosted". They had illusion magic placed on them (or rather on the whole city, since the place was hidden by magic to begin with) so that they couldn't interact with anyone. Everyone just appeared faceless and mute to the ghosted individuals and everyone else couldn't even perceive the ghosted elves. That struck me as a creative bit of worldbuilding despite the show's numerous other failings in that department.
Black Mirror episode
>giving criminals the ability to freely steal shit and destroy property
Absolutely moronic. I bet that show also said some dumb shit like saying the life of a deer is equal to that of a humans.
The worst thing that show did was make it so that the humans were the good guys throughout the entire story despite being told that everything they had done was wrong. With no justification for it actually being wrong.
Fey would work on libertarian principles and a roman court system. You either solve the problem yourself or with the help of your friends and for anything minor you drag them in front of a public group and berate them. Their agreement who was in the wrong is more of a safeguard against getting yourself dogpiled by other fey when you take what you want from your offending victim.