The Wall

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The invisible magical barrier that has divided the mortal lands from the faerie realm of Prythian for five centuries, a scar on the world that neither side can cross without permission, payment, or blood.

Also known as: The Treaty Wall, The Border, The Veil, The Shimmer, The Great Divide, The Invisible Wall, The Five-Hundred-Year Scar

What They Know

• The Wall was raised in 1 AC (After the Concord), the year the Treaty was signed, by the combined magic of the seven High Lords of Prythian and the mortal queens who had won the war.
• It is woven from the same raw substance as the Cauldron itself — the magic that Made the world — and cannot be permanently destroyed by any force short of the Cauldron's Unmaking.
• The Wall is weakest at the old crossing points, where the magic has frayed over centuries of use; the strongest of these is the passage near the Spring Court, where Tamlin's lands press closest to the mortal realm.
• Iron and ash wood, the two substances that can wound fae flesh, are said to be the only materials that can scar the Wall's surface, though no one has ever tried to carve through it with either.
• The Wall does not merely block physical passage — it mutes magic on either side, so that a fae crossing into the mortal lands feels their power dim and a mortal crossing into Prythian feels the sudden weight of ancient magic pressing down on their senses.
• There are creatures that live in the Wall itself — lesser faeries born of the barrier's own magic, who patrol its length and report any breach to the nearest High Lord's court.

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