[@LadyRunic] Erps, missed the "before" part.  ^.^;

[@Prince of Seraphs] Hm...I know in warring states there's often walls or barbed wire or something.  But the Fey Realm being what it is, you have maybe a few roads crossing the borders of the courts, and then a great deal of wilderness, which a large number of fey would be used to moving through.  Checkpoints only catch the people that go near them.  Are there magical barriers, or something?  Runic?  I mean, on the one hand unaligned/wild fey probably have a bit of an area of their own, sort of a buffer between the different courts, which is hard to do if the barriers are up all the time, but on the other...if there's no barriers at all, then it's nearly impossible to keep people out if they want in.  In general that can be handled, but at a time like this I could see raising barriers and allowing only monitored crossing points to be used.

This no doubt annoys the unaligned fey in the buffer zone no end, when barriers go up and keep them from moving freely in certain parts of their normal haunts (I would think the buffer has a little overlap with the very edges of the courts on either side), but then most court fey have very little regard for the wild ones.