Many villages scattered through the Margreve are home to an elusive species of humanoids known as the pineys. These strange beings are followers of a superstitious code known to outsiders as “the old ways,” though the pineys themselves do not refer to it as such. For them, the rules of the Margreve are as natural as the leaves growing on the boughs above.
On occasion, and likely caused by banishment arising from actions contrary to the old ways, a piney leaves the limits of the Margreve. These cast-outs soon lose the extreme features of their kind, reverting to a more human form. However, the magic of the great forest still courses through their blood, manifesting in strange and sometimes dreadful ways.