[Heliotrope] The Geography of Fairy (in relation to Terra)

Trying to describe all of Fairy is insanely stupid, since it flickers and expands in infinite impossible directions betwixt and among worlds in fits and starts; here one day and gone the next.  Whole swaths of magic kingdoms appear and disappear in the blink of an eye long before those in a world next door even realize their proximity.  But some sections of Fairy, like the red spot on that storm giant Jupiter, become fixed, as a recognizable feature in an otherwise churning churl of chaos.

Such is the nature of Terra.  Terra is not like Earth with its ripples upon the pond of reality affecting all of creation, but it is a place between many other places; a veritable high way from one way to another and as such certain regions of fairy have begun to congregate around it with some semblance of stability.  Terra's relationship with Fairy has become almost recognizable as a realm compared to other stranger demenses such as limbo, heaven, hell and Eddie's Interdimensinal All Night Pizzaria.

Outer Fairy was once a primal forest or swamp or desert, ruled by spirits who slowly because various fairy creatures influenced by both human belief and the primal creatures inside of Inner Fairy.  But time has slowly reduced their number.  Their habit of kidnapping changlings and bringing them to Fairy greatly enhanced their quality of life for many centuries, but eventually the humans vastly outnumbered the fairies until there were only humans left.  But a human inhabitant of fairy only looks nominally human; all have the blood of fairies in their veins, some even of Fairy Queens or Fairy Godmothers.  Not all of them acknowledge their magic, but it influences their lives in ways that would be obvious to someone from Terra.  It is a realm that interacts with Terra but is terrified of it; their modern technology and vast numbers infinitely larger than the smaller more magical realms connected to it.  And some governments are just beginning to learn of their existence.

One can think of Fairy around Terra as a hypersphere.  Inner Fairy perfectly matches the moon but also overlaps Terra.  It is exactly the size of the moon, but sunrises and sunsets tend to match those of Terra.  Time is not that radically different; at an equinox it is one day for one day; where at the summer solstice it tends to be five terran days for one in outer fairy.  By the winter solstice there are five fairy days for every day on Terra.  It tends to even out since the New Year on Terra matches the year (more or less) in Outer Fairy.

Middle Fairy is a chaotic realm the size of Mars, also superimposed over Earth but based on Mars's orbit.  At apogee, time is 15 days to 1 relative to Terra.  The reverse is also true.  A year in Middle Terra is equal to three years in Middle Fairy.  The magic here is still strong and does not rely on the complex series of magical dykes, dams, aquaducts and windmills to keep it pumping.  The land is teeming with magical creatures and while there are human kingdoms there are just as many of flowers, elves, dwarves, sprites, and any spirit imaginable.  Godmothers protect the realm from total destruction from Inner Fairy, while Fairy Royalty pays omage to the Godmothers and powerful colored fairies of days of old.  There are very few raids into outer fairy though simply because no one (except perhaps the humans) wants humanity to overrun Middle Fairy like they did Inner Fairy.

Inner Fairy is a hypersphere the size of Jupiter, and time there indeed runs long, with 100 days to 1 at apogee relative to terra and inverted at its long flight around the sun.  There are roughly 200 years in Inner Fairy relative to Terra.  Inner Fairy is ruled by the court of Oberon, with giants of magical power such as Order, Chaos, Light, Darkness and other mythic individuals.  Mab and her court hold tremendous sway there and sometimes there are abductions but Inner Fairy can do what it wants, when it wants and easily bypasses Middle Fairy to another realm to fetch entertainment or skill as it requires; though the games between Oberon's children affect many realms far and wide.