These Fey are known for their power over dreams, darkness, stars, twilight, and dusk. They are ruled over by many archfey like the Maiden of the Moon, though they are more a loose league, rather than a proper court. Their power is less focused on the nature of the Feywild, but rather its magical nature.
The Gloaming fey were a loosely-organized faction of fey who were various associated with dreams, dusk, stars, night, twilight, and other nocturnal phenomena. They were often said to be a league rather than a proper faction, and they typically kept their own counsel. When the Court of Stars met, however, they banded together for that intrigue. They were, at times, conflated with the fell Unseelie Court.
Members
Of the archfey associated with the Gloaming fey, the most well-known was the Maiden of the Moon, a hunter with a silver sword that was benevolent towards mortals. She spent her time waging a private war against lycanthropes and other savage killers.
The Prince of Hearts was another gloaming archfey, but a far more capricious one despite being dedicated to such concepts as gallantry, love, and beauty. For he delighted in both bringing true lovers, separated by circumstance, together; while at other times he was drawn more to the fire of unrequited love, and in either mood he would meddle in the lives of mortals.
The third, and darkest, archfey associated with the Gloaming fey was the Witch of Fates, an oracle who often pronounced doom- at Cendriane's height, she was the one to speak the prophecy of its fall. She was also known to lay low the powerful and proud, but also to raise up the virtuous caught in wretched conditions.
Unlike the selective, restrictive Seelie Court, the Unseelie Court welcomes anyone and everything with even a drop of ancestral fey blood. Fey can and do breed with anything, creating odd, mixed creatures. Most species consider the offspring grotesque monsters. The mutant creatures gravitate towards the Unseelie Court, which welcomes them and gives them an environment where peculiar physiologies and abilities are the norm.
The Unseelie Court is a more hospitable place for non-fey as well. Court nobles eagerly provide patronage for creatures who are extremely strong, dexterous, clever, beautiful, or talented. Obtaining the sponsorship of a court noble is not without its rewards, nor without its dangers. For instance, a gifted bard whose playing impresses a fey nobleman might be invited to his castle as a guest. Once there, the bard will be feted and asked to play every night -- and never be permitted to leave.
Ruling over all these oddities is the Queen of Air and Darkness: a fey of unsurpassed beauty and grace. The Queen of Air and Darkness has no current consort and no surviving children. The court is rife with gossip and political maneuvering as each noble curries the queen's favor in the hopes of being named the royal heir.
Outsiders not of fey blood are rarely admitted to the Unseelie Court. Visitors must be prepared with unusual and powerful gifts for the Queen, or they might find themselves the quarry of a nightmarish hunt. Suitable gifts for the Queen include figurines of horrific power, gems of darkness, and cursed jewelry. (Details on the figurines of horrific power and gems of darkness will appear in a future fey column on the Wizards website.)
After a millennia of indiscriminate breeding, the physical appearance of the Unseelie Court mirrors the macabre. Twisted columns, trees forced into unnatural growth by royal gardeners, are scattered haphazardly through the hall. Curtains of shadows hide blood-soaked alcoves. Drawn back for times of celebration, the gaping crevasses reveal uninvited guests captured for the amusement of the court. Riotous blooms of nightshades and blood warts glow red in the evening, providing a maddening light to the misshapen court. The throne of the Unseelie Court is shaped like a great shadow dragon, a creature of midnight and darkness, like the queen herself.
Gloaming Fey (MoP p. 38*; HotF p. 12) – Fey of dreams, darkness, stars, twilight, dusk; Fey allied to the Maiden of the Moon
Gloaming Court is briefly described in Dragon 382’s Power Play article.