Wild Place

A Wild Place is like a collective dream for the inhabitants of both the Wild Place and, when a Crossing is open, the entities inhabiting the immediate surroundings of the Crossing on the other side. A Wild Place is considered part of Annwyn, and it is a home for Fairy creatures. Generally speaking, Wild Places will be inhabited by weak fairies. They are not necessarily less dangerous than Shires however, as while the Fairies in a Wild Place are on the whole generally weaker than those in Shires, there are often more of them, and more varied types of fairies.

A Wild Place can be "claimed" by a sufficiently powerful Fairy creature (or even a human practitioner of magic) and made into a Shire, but the other inhabitants of the Wild Place can contest this claim. As such, it actually is possible for a Wild Place to be home to powerful fairies, so long as there are enough Fairies of roughly equal power who would not be willing to acknowledge the others as the masters of the place.