The Isle of Dreams is a Freehold of the Fae in the Kingdom of Connaught and the site of Silver's Gate.
Silver’s Gate & the Isle of Dreams[]
“The Isle of Dreams sparkled atop the water, a verdant expanse of gently rising ground that culminated in a rounded hill in the island’s center. Atop the hill, a faerie castle of crystal spires and prismic towers crowned the island’s highest point. Before the gate of the castle stood a pair of stone statues, elegantly clad knights with long flowing hair” Jackie Cassada, Court of All Kings
The legendary Isle of Dreams, once the meeting place for the Court of All Kings and the site of Silver’s Gate, sank beneath the ocean off the tip of Achill Island after a fierce battle during the final moments of the sidhe’s flight to Arcadia. Since the Shattering, the island has rested in a pocket of mute Glamour at the bottom of the ocean.
When it was an active freehold, the Isle of Dreams represented a piece of Arcadia within the world of mortals. Roughly circular in shape and approximately the size of Inisheer, the chimeric form of the island rises in the center to a rounded hill, atop which stands an ethereal castle housing the Hall of the Shining Ones, the chamber in which the faerie kings and queens of Ireland convened four times yearly, at each change of the seasons. At the base of the castle, the shining archway of Silver’s Gate provided relatively easy access between the mortal world and Arcadia.
After the Battle of Silver’s Gate, a pair of eyeless stone statues, the calcified ruins of the twin brothers (cursed by Queen Merala), whose enmity led to the sinking of the island, replaced the silver pillars which once anchored the gateway.
Traditionally, the guardianship of Silver’s Gate has belonged to the selkies who live in the nearby Seal Caves of Achill Island.
References[]
- CTD: Immortal Eyes: Court of All Kings, p. 62.