A loose organization of druids watches over the Crescent Forest, protecting the woods from logging, overhunting, and defiling. The Crescent Circle is made up of a dozen or so hermits, escaped slaves, and Gulgan outlaws. Most keep to themselves in the deep recesses of the forest, but others spy on judaga hunting parties or try to drive Nibenese loggers back to their own city. The druids are allied with the handful of treants who guard the forest’s most sacred sites.
The chief of the druids, a stern, gray-bearded Gulgan named Barazin, was once a nganga (templar) in the service of Lalali-Puy. In his younger years, Barazin enslaved and tormented primal spirits with his arcane magic, but he came to see through the Oba’s lies about the forest spirits and abandoned Gulg to serve them instead.