Underhill

Underhill
Underhill is a slang term among those associated with the Spring Court being on the far side of the Parapet. The traditional gateways between Terra and the other-worlds were often called fairy mounds or hollow hills. Once Underhill, travelers are cut off from all contact with the terrestrial world by the Parpet. Time flows differently Underhill and in an unpredictable fashion: a traveler could think they were in the other-worlds for only a few days but emerge decades later in terrestrial time. The Fae (and their companions) do not typically age while Underhill except by choice.

The Roads To Underhill
When the Fae began to sunder ties to Terra and humanity, they closed most of the established paths used by the Courts. However, each of the Courts kept at least one primary road open to the largest of their realms. They typically used fae-blooded guardians to guard it.



Glastonbury Tor
Glastonbury Tor was one of four gates to Underhill which were traditionally guarded by the Bleiddyn. In 1999, they lost control of it to when The Hafgan was successfully freed by the Ebon Circle and the Spring Court forced to temporarily close it. It had not yet been re-opened during the events of The Restitute which were set in the spring of 2012.



Siqiniq's Inuksuk
The coming of Western civilization to North America brought the destruction or closure of a number of gates and paths controlled by the Summer Court who had been less effected by the Age of Man until the colonial era. Siqiniq's Inuksuk is located Baffin Island in theCanadian Arctic Archipelago and traditionally protected by the Yeenadlooshi and their wolf-kin.



The Sunken Temple At Lake Nemi
The Autumn Court maintains a gateway in the Lazio region of Italy roughly twenty miles south of Rome. Luperci continue to zealously protect it, though it has other more ephemeral guardians as well. Since the Revival, the Autumn Court has had a growing influence in human politics within the Mediterranean region where human wars and intrigues have influenced and been influenced by the capricious Unseely.



Gates of Alexander
The Winter Court continues to keep a gate hidden within the towers overlooking Derbent, a city tucked between the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus mountains. The Citadel there leads directly into the other-world of Perun. It is guarded by a cult of fae-blooded spellcrafters of mixed Persian-Slavic ancestry who have been kept close to the Winter Court for thousands of years.