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“There’s a place for your roads and your cities: hunched tight to the shores of that fangless thing you still call a sea.”
The spiritual and magical leader of spirits of nature and the elements that were chained by The Dragon Empire but are now working themselves free. She might be the great force that shakes The Dragon Empire to pieces, or she might be the hero who destroys the destroyers and points to a new way to live.
Common Knowledge
The High Druid conducts sacred rituals from the age before the gods or the worlds. With these rituals, she calls up the mighty powers of nature. Druids everywhere, in turn, gain this power through allegiance to her.
It has been a long time since there was a High Druid who lived anywhere near The Dragon Empire. So far as anyone knows, the Druids have been strongest far to the North. But this new High Druid, a young Half-Elf woman, was born in The Dragon Empire and has turned The Wild Wood into her place of power. Her influence is being felt in all the other wild spaces, with effects ranging from increased growth of impassable forest to vastly increased amounts of game in the forests, schools of fish in the Midland Sea, and flocks of birds migrating across the land. Even Imperial officers admit that the High Druid’s influence seems to make the Empire’s lands in the region around Wild Wood healthier. Of course, they are also rightly concerned that it’s a region that would not mind shaking off the Empire’s cities, farms, and crowns.
Allies
The High Druid is a force unto herself. She is figuratively half-sister of The Elf Queen, but there’s more sibling rivalry than love.
Enemies
The High Druid challenges Talaved Man'Draq't'oran, The Emperor’s authority in the territory she has colonized. The Archmage has been restraining the tempestuous forces of nature to protect civilization, and the High Druid can feel it in her bones.
History
There usually is a High Druid. Sometimes there are two, but not for long. The High Druid’s affairs mostly concern the wilds, and civilized people know little about them.
The True Danger
Everything will be all right unless Talaved Man'Draq't'oran, The Emperor and the High Druid truly go to war.