People
Everdew divides its intelligent life into three categories, and the divisions are political rather than biological. All fey are immortal, all are inherently magical, and all began as something else.
- Faeries — the dominant races, humanoid in shape, winged, and counted as people by the Kingdom. Twelve races, ranked from the sylvan "lesser" forms up to the High Sidhe nobility.
- Goblins — fey in every respect that matters, ostracized for their ugliness and their lack of wings. Nine races, united less by kinship than by the shared experience of exclusion, and lately by the Goblin King.
- Non-Faeries — every other intelligent creature: beetles, moles, spiders, songbirds, worms, sand-swimmers, and thousands more. Intellectual equals of any Faerie, they hold no land and appear in no census. The Kingdom sorts them into four castes and draws a line of personhood through the middle of them.
Races
| Race | Category | Element | Homeland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cait Sith | Faerie | Animals | The Hedges |
| Dryad | Faerie | Nature | The Greenmantle |
| Gnome | Faerie | Earth | The Deep Hollows |
| High Sidhe | Faerie | Arcane | The Eternal City |
| Kitsune | Faerie | Lightning | The Ninefold |
| Leprechaun | Faerie | Cold | The Rimeward |
| Pooka | Faerie | Music | The Chiming Vale |
| Salamander | Faerie | Fire | The Emberwaste |
| Spriggan | Faerie | Shadow | The Twilight Forest |
| Sylph | Faerie | Air | The Heartland |
| Undine | Faerie | Water | The Manywaters |
| Wisp | Faerie | Celestial | The Land of Night |
| Boggart | Goblin | Blight | The Hollow Marches |
| Bugbear | Goblin | Nightmare | The Nightwood |
| Gremlin | Goblin | Entropy | The Rustlands |
| Grindyloc | Goblin | Deep water | The Black Meres |
| Hobgoblin | Goblin | Hearth | The Waking World |
| Jack-o-Lantern | Goblin | Foolsfire | The Corpselight Fens |
| Kobold | Goblin | Metal | The Deepworks |
| Pukwudgie | Goblin | Thorn | The Briar Barrens |
| Redcap | Goblin | Iron | The Bloodmoors |
Castes
The Non-Faeries are not races and the Kingdom does not list them as such. They are castes, sorted by how closely a body resembles a human one and — in the first case — by whether the Queen's writ can reach them at all.
| Caste | Colloquialism | Who |
|---|---|---|
| The Elderborn | The Sovereign Freehold | Treants, faerie dragons, hamadryads, satyr envoys, the great corvids |
| The Low-Brood | Creepfolk, Crawlers | Talking insects, arachnids, micro-frogs, rodents |
| The Feral-Kin | Wild-Limbed, Half-Paws | Heavy anthropomorphic beastfolk |
| The Chrysalids | The In-Between, Larval-Fey | Uncanny moth-featured and chitin-skinned humanoids |