Brazin has lived in the Crescent Forest almost continuously for the last 20 years. He has spent much of his time observing the forest and becoming familiar with it. Brazin believes that the forest, unique as it is within the Tyr region, is crucial to the life of the entire region. He has consistently demonstrated his love for the forest. Shortly after discovering the oba's grove, Brazin was visited by the forest goddess herself. She chose not to kill the druid outright, and in her characteristically cunning manner turned the druid into a puppet of the crown. Over a series of several discussions which took place over the period of a year, the oba convinced the druid that their goals were complementary. She convinced Brazin that Gulg's interests were best served by maintaining the balance within the forest. The city was a community of hunters and gatherers. Nibenay's logging, however, was a threat to both Gulg's future and to the forest itself. She did not mention that it was Gulg's judaga who had hunted the kirre to extinction within the Crescent Forest.
Brazin found himself forming one of the most unlikely alliances on Athas. Lalali-Puy advised Brazin to form the hierarchy of druids in order to better advance their interests, rather than operating independently and less effectively. She also encouraged him to range more broadly and take a more direct hand in druidic activity across the forest. She sealed their arrangement by insisting that Brazin add a tree of life to her grove. The oba believes that she is creating a specialist military unit that will serve her in a final confrontation with Nibenay and will not compete with her for resources. Brazin's druids can also serve the sorcerer-queen as an intelligence network, providing information to Brazin on Nibenay's activity within the Crescent Forest. The oba will allow the druids to operate in the forest as long as they continue to serve her interests. She keeps a careful eye to their numbers and their ability to be certain that they do not become unmanageably powerful.
Brazin does not suspect the oba's motives beyond what she has explained to him. However, he cannot bring himself to reveal the truth of his pact with the queen to his fellow druids. To ally with a defiler, let alone the savage oba of Gulg, would be considered sedition by the druids of the Crescent Forest. Brazin's guarded land is the aquifer that supports life within the Crescent Forest. As a result, his span of control is both broader and more limited than his fellow druids within the forest. Brazin has, at the encouragement of the oba, become a sort of custodian to the entire forest. He gets along well with the other druids, and he has taken a very broad view of his responsibility to the guardian lands. Thus, while one could argue that the Nibenay lumber camps are no threat to the aquifer, Brazin is able to justify his involvement by arguing that the fair use of the aquifer is being denied by overlogging. As a result, he makes the loggers (and the consequences of their actions) his business. Brazin does not realize that much of the difficulty he has had slowing the decline of the aquifer is attributable to the fact that its spirit of the land is bound into the Athasian treant, which he reveres. Someday the druid may be forced to kill the treant to save the aquifer.
Brazin spends much of his time in the shape of
a rhoss, as this shape affords him the mobility of a bird but allows him to speak with travelers and fellow druids
without changing shape.