The Human Realm · South of the Wall
Mortal Lands
The mortal world below the Wall — forests, villages, and a poverty Feyre learned to hunt her way out of.
Ruled by a council of human queens, divided from the faerie courts of Prythian by an invisible barrier of magic.
At a glance
The Mortal Lands
What it is
The world below the Wall
The Mortal Lands are the human half of the world, lying south of the Wall — an invisible barrier of ancient magic that divides mortals from the faerie courts of Prythian. It is a temperate country of forests and villages, of mortal wheat and village-roses, where weather is only weather and the threat of the Fae is kept at a distance no one quite trusts. Without the long lives or the magic of those across the Wall, the human realm is governed by a council of human queens, mortal rulers who guard their fragile sovereignty against the powers to the north.
What happens there
Where the story begins
This is where it begins. In the forests of her childhood, a starving Feyre Archeron hunts to keep her family alive — a fallen merchant's daughters scraping by in a freezing cottage at the edge of a mortal village. It is from these woods that she kills the wolf and is taken across the Wall, and to this hearth-smoke world that the human queens' politics and the long shadow of war keep returning. The Mortal Lands are the measure of everything Feyre leaves behind: ordinary, mortal, and the home she once would have given anything to escape.
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