Dark, smoky clubs. Blues and jazz mix with the clack of pool cues and the smell of old alcohol. Wild orgies in the street, beautiful scupltured houses in the Garden District, dark alleys slick with moonlight and rain. This is the world of the Fae in New Orleans. Whether it be tea and shopping on quiet Royal Street or blood and sex on Bourbon, it is intense and full of rapture.

There are different motleys and households, noble and commoner alike, grouped into what are called "krewes". Krewes organize many of the floats you see on Mardi Gras, the roving gangs of skull-faced people and brightly dressed clowns who throw coins to a delusional and enchanted crowd of mortals. Dark and forboding or light and heady, krewes are the soul and life of New Orleans during Carnival.