First appearance: S1E11 — Gift Horse — Cosmonius v El Hada Rocha · watch it on YouTube
The Feywild is a realm of untamed color and glitter. It has sent at least two flamboyant champions into the Deathmatches. Both Cosmonius, the Galloping Grappler, and El Hada Rocha, champion of the peacock spirit, call it home, and they met each other in the arena. Everything that comes out of it seems to sparkle.
Description
By its own natives’ account, the Feywild is a wild place. El Hada Rocha introduced himself as coming from the “Feywilds” and boasted that he was “about as wild as the Feywilds themselves.” Its wildlife includes peacocks, and not necessarily friendly ones. Cosmonius claimed to have seen them in the Feywild and known how they would attack.
The realm also seems to leave a mark on those who live there. When Cosmonius cantered across the arena, he left a trail of Feywild pixie dust behind him. The dust caught up with him and clung to his oiled chest, and some of it drifted onto others. By the sound of it, the Feywild is a pleasant place to be. Cosmonius was “simply enjoying myself back in my home of the Feywild” when he was pulled into the Void.
History
Gift Horse
The Feywild entered the story when both champions of S1E11 — Gift Horse — Cosmonius v El Hada Rocha turned out to come from it. El Hada Rocha arrived first. He wore skin-tight spandex and a luchador mask crowned with sweeping, prismatic peacock feathers, and he promised “all manner of feathery doom.” Then he flexed, and massive rainbow dragonfly wings ripped out of the back of his suit.
Cosmonius trotted in next like a show horse at dressage. He was a chestnut centaur with a strongman’s torso, shampoo-commercial hair and a silky handlebar moustache, and he was not pleased to have been interrupted at home. He sneered at “these colourful dandies” before naming himself the Galloping Grappler.
Their shared homeland soon paid off for Cosmonius. El Hada Rocha praised the peacock spirit, spread his wings, put his hands behind his head and thrust his pelvis at the sky. A blast of magic shaped like an enormous peacock came roaring out of him, and the Grandmaster cheered it on: “Let me see your peacock. Yes!” Cosmonius dodged it with his hair flowing behind him. He explained that he had seen such peacocks before:
“Thankfully for me, I’ve seen them before in the Feywild, knew how they would attack.” (Cosmonius)
Battle for the Crown
Cosmonius returned for S2 Ep19, Battle for the Crown Round 2 - Team Grandmaster (Cosmonius & Locket) v Team Arbiter (Silky Slim & …. He fought for Team Grandmaster alongside Locket against the Arbiter’s side, which included Silky Slim. He hadn’t expected “to see the light of day again” after his first bout.
This time the Feywild came with him. He warmed up with dressage and old-timey pugilism, then cantered sixty feet, leaving a trail of pixie dust. It stuck to his oiled chest and drifted over to Locket as he called down a fey-touched blessing on the two of them. Some of it reached the Grandmaster, who held up Doug the Pug so he could get sparkles too. Doug licked at it. Cosmonius spent the moment preening and announced: “In comes the galloping grappler.”
Notable Figures
- Cosmonius: the Galloping Grappler, a centaur monk who calls the Feywild home.
- El Hada Rocha: champion of the peacock spirit, “about as wild as the Feywilds themselves.”