Faewood, or <<Niche>>, is a tiny, curated Free Company created with an express focus on the narrative aspect of roleplay and caters almost exclusively to plot and character exploration. We enjoy dissecting and analyzing the Final Fantasy XIV story and the themes contained therein, and exploring our own stories within its context. True to our tag, we're a very <<Niche>> group of literature nerds and authors. Our goal is to cultivate an enabling creative environment and community for the stories players want to tell. We aim to encourage thought-provoking stories and cater to domestic and driven narratives that, for one reason or another, are difficult to home in a more traditional roleplay space. If you've ever been told 'Why don't you just write a book?' as a response to your character concepts and themes, we're right there with you. If you've ever caught yourself agonizing over tiny lore minutae wondering if you are overthinking, you probably are, but that's not a bad thing.Let's overthink and obsess over things together.

A potentially familiar name to War of the Magi scholars, Faewood does its enigmatic work under one Eirene Charbonneau, mired somewhere indiscernably between 'cult', 'coven', and 'custodian', orphaned somewhere in the sea of Gridanian aristocracy. A fief uneasily beheld to the perceived greater good of the Shroud, the Faewood performs various secretive tasks, on occasion even at the behest of the Stillglade Fane, serving as a place of sanctuary and a sole estate underneath the boughs.

Blistering with eclectica, the Faewood sits as-yet unaccosted by the Elementals which rule over its domain or their earthly agents, seated snug atop a long-felled stump. For the most part, its denizens shelter in the safety of their secluded otherworld, hoarded secrets protected by yet more of the same. But every once in a while, when the stars are right and the Wood's heart is not, they are called upon to intervene.