![]() ![]() She was inhumanly beautiful, but her smile held no fondness.” Silarial has a similar beauty, but stressed as more natural: “Her skin was flawless, her hair shone bright as copper in the sun under a woven circlet of ivy and dogwood blossoms, her eyes were as bright as the green apples that hung near them.” It is revealed in Ironside that they are sisters. Nicnevin is described thus: “Her blood-red hair was pulled back into thick, jewelled braids, and the dusky grey of her dress made her skin all the more pale and creamy by comparison. In turn the dark knight Nephamael joined the Seelie Court. As part of the truce, the Seelie Queen Silarial sent her finest and most noble knight, Roiben, to serve the Unseelie Queen Nicnevin. ![]() Not all the faerie are courtiers – there are solitary fey, although they tend to be aligned to one court or the other and may offer their allegiance in exchange for protection.Īt the beginning of the series, the faerie courts have been at peace for decades. No explanation is offered as to how they were transplanted to America. ![]() Seelie and Unseelie are Scottish terms for faerie divisions (literally, Holy and Unholy). Robin: Holly Black’s Modern Faerie Tales series is set in New Jersey and New York in modern America, a great swath of land over which the faeries of the Seelie and Unseelie Courts have been warring for the longest time. ![]()
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