The Unseelie court not knowing that the Calloways had a daughter would imply that Oleander and Birdie had conceived and birthed Fearne a short time AFTER they had fled the Seelie. Mostly on the basis that the birth of daughter to one of the Feywild’s most influential families would be big, hot-topic gossip/news for the rest of the courts within the Feywild.
And if I, the matriarch of the Seelie court, wanted the daughter of my once powerful fey family within my court to become apart of my war-brewing tactic’s, I would keep all hush-hush about the birth of a Calloway daughter to my other fey court matriarchs/patriarchs/leaders.
But there’s also the fact that Elmenore knew of a daughter, which means that Birdie and Oleander didn’t nessisarly leave the court, they just left the courts inner circle (I.e the matriarch, the advisers, the grove general, the hand maidens, Ira Wendagoth, etc) meaning that while not directly appearing to Elmenore herself, they’re still in the Seelie court as a whole, meaning that when Fearne was born, Elmenore knew of her existence because her parents had not completely severed their ties with the Seelie court.
It’s kinda the same case as Loquacious—although he had completly left Elmenore and the court as a whole, he was still tied to the Seelie and still could communicate with them and they knew of his marriage to a mortal.
This also begs the question: does the Unseelie court actually know that the Calloways left the Seelie Court?
To me, Dusk’s convo with their informant read as if the Unseelie doesn’t know that The Calloways became outcasts within their court and left to supposedly fix whatever it was that they broke and that they believe that the Calloways are still in service to whatever war-brewing plot that Elmenore is cooking.
Sorry this took ages to answer, but yeah, I'm inclined to agree. A lot of this lore is above my paygrade in how much I understand CR lore, but I definitely think that Dusk is possibly uninformed about the current status of the Calloways. They're clearly on a mission from their boss to "end the Calloway line," but I'm also very curious about their status in that mission.
By that I mean that Dusk presumably traveled with Birdie and Ollie for a while (assuming that's not a lie, but during the Sending from Imogen, Dusk was name-dropped and Birdie/Ollie weren't alarmed at all) and is now traveling with Fearne and never once have they acted to harm a Calloway. Maybe it's all a gambit to get to Morrighan? Or they can't act until all the Calloways have been located?
But it definitely seems plausible that this is a larger Seelie/Unseelie conflict that the Calloways are caught in the middle of, regardless of how much they want to be.
Overall, I'm less concerned with Dusk's lore right now than Dusk's character actions. Erika is playing Dusk in such a fun fashion full of poking and prodding and mischief and it's fun because we don't have any reason to believe that there's a reason for it. Like, yes, Dusk is there for Fearne, but there's no reason to fuck with Imogen & Laudna or Orym or FCG, and yet... there they are, messing with them. Fey fuckery or plot-based motivation, doesn't matter, I can't wait to see more of it and more importantly, the reveal.
