Hi!  I'm still around.  I've been busy the past couple of says, but I'm still very much interested. I should have said something, and I am sorry for not doing so, but I have not vanished into the aether.

I guess I'll have to buckle down on that CS!  I've actually finished most of it.  I just need to expand on the bio and straighten out the race.  After much consternation, I decided to go with the Aos Sidhe, and really stress the whole "underground" thing.  Progress on the Race Sheet has been minimal, but I expect to have plenty of time tomorrow. 

As for your request for ideas on the Courtly thematics, I have some ideas for Fall:

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First off, I call it the Autumn Court, because I like the sound of that better. It's a purely aesthetic choice based on my personal tastes.

Second, I've based this conceptualization of the Autumn Court in two aspects of the season: the harvest, and the shortening of the days.  Autumn, especially early in the season, is generally associated with the harvesting of crops that were planted earlier in the year.  Thus, I think of the Autumn Court as a land of plenty.  I envision that, as a result of abundant foodstuffs, the various subjects of the Court liberal with their supplies, if not exactly wasteful.  portions are large, festivals and feasts are incredibly common (with those with the resources to plan and supply them), and its people are generally given to a greater degree of hedonism than the other courts.

The other side of the coin, however, is the Dying of the Light.  The season of autumn is characterized by the gradual shortening of the length of the daylight hours.  So, I would conceptualize the Autumn Court as being characterized by a lingering anxiety.  In some places, perhaps all that feasting takes on a maddened, frenzied pace because of a general sense of impending doom.  In other places, perhaps they party too hard and starve themselves because they ate through their food supply (I also thought that maybe one or two regions could have been cursed into a state of permanent famine by the Ruler of Autumn because their continuous pleas for aid after draining their own stocks caused offense).  And perhaps in other places still the general mood of hedonism is stripped away, causing them to amass colossal stores of food that they barely touch, which then begins to rot because it's gone untouched for so long.

And of course, the Dying of the Light is not a concept strictly limited to food stores.  There may perhaps be an air hanging over the Court that would suggest the present era is at an end.  Revolutions and revolts against the lesser nobility could be commonplace, while the ruler leaves them to prove that their time has not yet come on their own.  And not just wars of whispers and daggars—though, given the nature of fae, those are plentiful—but bloody and violent wars and coup d'etats as well.  Maybe, then, all the feasts and festivals are designed as a sort of "Bread and Circuses" system?  That's something that I just thought of while typing this out.

Of course, the revolting against the ruler of the court is a storied tradition.  It happens far less than their vassals deal with, and the ruler generally doesn't have too much difficulty coming out on top.  Still, it's something they have to deal with far more than their peers do. 
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That's what I've got, anyways.  You've got the final call on all of this, of course.  I've actually been thinking on how the Acheron might fit into the court's themes, but don't have anything concrete.

Anyways, expect something from me in the next 24 hours.  Right now, I've got to get some shut-eye.