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The Great Courts are common social structures on a greater scale than motleys. Great Courts serve much the same purpose - safety from the Fae - but on a larger scale and with more organization. Each of the four Courts has its own unique affiliations with one of the seasons and a dominant emotion, bound to the Court through oaths its founders exacted from the seasons many, many years ago.
Changelings bound their Courts to the seasons for the strength it would give them against their one-time captors. Any pact provides power in the form of Contracts, but the founders explicitly chose to align their Courts with an aspect of the world that the Gentry couldn't understand. A Fae lord may tyrannize a realm of endless winter, but he would never forsake his power and allow another to warm his land to spring. Tying their resistance to the voluntary progression of the seasons gives the changelings a stronger connection to Earth and a basis for defense that the Others are - so far - unable to undermine. Questions about the Great Courts?
Refer to the Changeling: the Lost , pages 45 - 61 for lots more.
Spring Court
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Bare branches will again bear fruit. This belief is the common element in members of the Spring Court. Just as all changelings, these Court members have had their lives ripped from them by their onetime Keepers. The Spring Court exists for changelings who refuse that loss, choosing to replace it with something new. They deny despair in preference of hope, and together they keep that hope alive where alone it would falter. Their lives are not over, and they intend to prove it ? to the Fae, and to themselves.
Summer Court: They're strong, and I suppose that makes them safe. But by protecting their lives, they don't really live.
Autumn Court: They spend too much time remembering. They should really get out more - out of doors, and out of the past.
Winter Court: I'm this far from being one of them. If I'd shut my doors instead of throwing them open, I'd be there.
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Summer Court
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The buck has horns. This is what members of the Summer Court want the Fae to realize the next time they come a-hunting. Changelings break free of Faerie and escape to Earth, and they are going to fight tooth and claw not to be uprooted again. In Arcadia, they were alone and helpless. Back on Earth, they stand strong together. The Summer Court welcomes any changeling willing to fight to the last drop of blood for her - and for others' - safety.
Spring Court: They're too busy playing Fae to fight them.
Autumn Court: These guys have the right idea, but the fire they're playing with is hotter than ours and harder to control.
Winter Court: If I wanted to hide from real life, I'd've stayed in Faerie.
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The curse is a gift. Not one member of the Autumn Court is glad of her abduction and enslavement. But since they were taken, they were changed and they can't go back, they can damn well take advantage of those changes. They know that the gramarye of the Fae doesn't have to be terrifyingly beautiful and gloriously torturous. It can be simply wondrous, too. Though all changelings use magic, the Leaden Mirror walks on the cutting edge of Wyrd.
Spring Court: They may understand the nature of Wyrd, but they sure don't do anything about it.
Summer Court: There's so much potential, but they waste it all on brute force.
Winter Court: If they ever came out of their shells, they could do something. As it is, they just hide.
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The hunt ends when the fox goes to ground. If the True Fae can't find you, the Winter Court reasons, they can't hunt you down and drag you back to Faerie. In the Winter, all the glory of the seasons fades to nothing, nowhere to be seen, and snow hides the ground. But there is life, waiting beneath the earth where it can't be disturbed. The Silent Arrow knows this.
Spring Court: I think they may be hiding from themselves the same way we are - just louder.
Summer Court: Sometimes I think, if the Summer guys would just stop pounding their chests and howling, They might lose track of us.
Autumn Court: If they took fewer risks, they'd be a great help. As it is, they're more likely to cause trouble than prevent it.
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