The Unkempt Warders Vol. III
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The Unkempt Warders Vol. III
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Udos-Ehai Digowa commanded the druid to remain in the forest and share with the humans his magics and ways. If ever the druid should attempt to flee the forest confines, the Tribe of the Moon would kill him, for they are always watching. However, Wegadas was not to corrupt the knowledge and ways that Gihjna had taught the humans. Wegadas agreed without argument and the Lujien pack faded silently into the shadows, leaving the wounded elf to the human tribe to fulfill the demands that would guarantee his continued life. Wegadas learned the language of the humans to perfection in his first fornight. With communication established, Wegadas learned the ways that the Gihjna had taught the humans - finding them intriguing and immediately adapting them as his own for the sake of the people now in his care and in respect to the native bestial tribes that spared his life. Over the first years, Wegadas taught the human tribe the ways of the wildnerness - he spoke to them of Tunare, The Mother Of All; the great goddess of growth and nature. He taught them how to pay their respects to his own goddess without prayer or sacrifice - only that they must respect the power of the natural world, for as it had given them life; it can just as easily and without warning take it from them. This is a law that should be neither feared nor hated but one that is given the respect of an inevitable reality and one that cannot be altered by steel or mind. The humans clung to Wegadas' liberal preaching and lessons, embracing the matron goddess of growth as their own. Soon thereafter, the humans would learn the ways of the druid - adapting and wielding the magics that Wegadas taught them, and that they taught themselves at an exceptional rate. Rangers would be the first of the master adepts, however, for the magic within them was less than their druid compatriots and the ferocity of the wild had already been established in their ways. As the human tribe became established, Udos-Ehai Digowa and the Gihjna elder, Etsi Agal-Iha (Mother of the Light) returned to the human tribe. The tribes of the Dawn and Moon established the laws of the wild: none of Wegadas' tribe was to leave the forest, and if they attempted to do so, they would be killed. They were children of the wild now, and their attempts to see the outside world would corrupt them. The Tribes of the Dawn and Moon also established that all who entered the forest would be driven out or destroyed at the discretion of Wegadas and the tribe. The third law was that the Lujien and Gihjna would remain out of the human tribe's affairs - so long as they maintained the order the Gihjna had given the generations past, and that they did not stray from their duties to the forest that has accepted them as its children. The laws were agreed upon with Wegadas' leadership, for the human tribe trusted his wisdom and guidance explicitly. Satisfied, the solar and lunar tribes departed, although their eyes never strayed from their human guests. It was in those first years that Wegadas' intrigue with the humans grew to tightly woven kinship. Slowly, he released his grip on his elven life and embraced the feldgling existence and culture that he was instrumental in fathering. The elven druid was Fier'Dal no more, his brethren were no longer human - they were all children of the wild and it was then that Wegadas learned a true peace. Finding his true purpose and never longing for the life he abandoned, Wegadas would spend nearly a century composing what would become the most revered and sacred of relics to the homid tribe of the redwood forest - the Writ of the Wild. This sacred tome detailed Wegadas' rebirth into the wilderness per his own perspective, as well as the laws that he had established and his people followed. The tome also detailed the Lujien and Gihjna culture and their ancient tales and religion that Wegadas had been privy to in the several centuries he dwelled among them.
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