Setting Details

Overview
The barony of Rockcrest is part of the Kingdom of Apples, ruled by the powerful and seemingly immortal Queen Mab ni Fiona. It falls under the domain of the duchy of Stone Coast. In its early history, the first kithain recorded to live on its islands were selkie. When Monhegan Island shifted from a trading post to fishing village to artist's colony mid 19th century, other commoner kithain began to congregate and formed the first freehold. The Resurgence, however, brought House Leanhaun and Baroness Maira to claim it in 1970.

High King David Ardry rules Concordia in name only. Since 2017, he has not appeared outside of Tara-Nar and held no open court for years. The Parliament of Dreams is defunct once more. Each of Concordia's eight kingdoms is more or less self-governing. Queen Mab presents herself with eternal surreal beauty, majesty, and power. She is rumored to be one of the enigmatic and immortal Síocháin and the most powerful kithain NPC in this chronicle.

The Kingdom of Apples is divided into nine duchies and one commonwealth. Since 2017, Queen Mab has shown greater leniency in allowing Unseelie nobles and Unseelie Houses take leadership positions within the Kingdom of Apples so long as they served both her and her kingdom's best interests. House Fiona has become particularly divided between Seelie and Unseelie in recent years; it is by far the most powerful of the fourteen Houses in the Kingdom of Apples and supported in varying degrees by Houses Ailil, Daireann, Dougal, Gwydion, Leanhaun, Liam. The other seven houses (Aesin, Balor, Beaumayn, Danaan, Eiluned, Scathach and Varich) have no holdings within the Kingdom at this time.

Duchess Siera ni Fiona is Unseelie and rules Stone Coast. Baroness Maira is her sworn vassal and they have a very intense relationship that waxes and wanes in friendship/enmity. The Duchess rarely visits Rockcrest in person but typically has at least liaison (and/or spy) on the island, especially during tourist season.

Baroness Maira has ruthlessly controlled the barony since the Accordance War. One of the Arcadian Fae from the first wave during the Resurgence, she in the source of unending controversy and strife among the kithain and kinain of Rockcrest. Even in her current human role as nineteen year old Isabelle Kane, the baroness assumes the rule of Queen Bee as far as the residential community of Monhegan Island is concerned.

While Rockcrest is geographically tiny, it is an incredible important place as far as the duchy itself is concerned. While there are only about seventy human full-time residents, virtually all of them have fae ancestry if they aren't outright kinain. This has created a very unique and complicated environment. There are, however, basically two political factions: Loyalists who support Baroness Maira and the Old Guard who don't.

Specific Topics

 * The Barony of Rockcrest aka Monhegan Island (Core Setting)
 * Our Adhene
 * Our Arcadia & The Far Dreaming
 * Our Autumn People
 * Our Dauntain
 * Our Enchanted
 * Our Kingdom of Apples
 * Our Kinain
 * Our Kiths
 * Our Nightmare Chimera
 * Our Nunnehei
 * Our Other Gallain
 * Our Prodigals
 * Our Shadow Court
 * Our Dark-Kin & Thallain
 * Our Merfolk
 * Our Sidhe Houses
 * Queen Mab's Escheat