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[monkeyemoness]

Loremaster Lawrence Schick is moving to Ireland and thus leaving the ESO Team

Gonna miss him tbh, and whoever replaces him has some big shoes to fill. Or else.



EDIT: Oh, his successor wrote a good chunk of the Clockwork City! Okay, I'm not worried at all.

This post has been edited by monkeyemoness: Feb 7 2019, 05:54 AM

[Acadian]

Thoughts? I agree that the Green Pact is absurdly unacceptable. Walk through the forest without squashing a blade of grass? Clearly a concept conceived by someone who has never walked through a forest. Eat only meat – like deer that eat plants so eating plants secondhand is okay? It does break down to somewhat absurd rather easily. And it certainly presents some infuriating dilemmas as you have encountered.

So. . . we 'adjusted' things for 'Buffy Lore'.

As you know, the forests of Valenwood are ‘alive’. Long ago many Bosmeri tribes made the familiar Green Pact with Yffre for protection. So the Green Pact as we know it does exist and is followed by a fair number of tribes in Buffy's world. However. . . .

Buffy is descended from a clan of tribes known as ‘Clouddancers’. They are so known because each of these tribes is spiritually linked to their own massive graht oak which provides their home. Clouddancers are well adapted for treetop life at elevations where they can literally dance among the clouds. They are smaller than most Bosmer and lightly built which helps them move easily and safely among high fragile branches. Rather than Yffre, Clouddancers have always turned to the Mother of Nirn (Mara) and the Sky Goddess (Kynareth/Kyne) for assistance in living with the forest.

Clouddancers are taught to venerate the forest and use its bounty as they need to without waste. They are under no mandate to avoid using either flora or fauna that the forest so graciously provides. They generally say a prayer over successful hunting kills, wishing the animal’s spirit a safe journey until it someday returns to the forest. They further honor any animal they hunt by fully utilizing all parts of it. Because of their special relationship with the massive graht oaks of Valenwood, these trees readily grow and provide for many of their specific needs ranging from living pods to precisely grown small branches which can be readily crafted into arrows and bows.


As far as the forest itself, Buffy adores Valenwood. As she moves through it, she feels as if the forest itself is wrapping itself around her, protecting her and helping to mask her movement. I’ve noticed she gets a similarly comforting feeling when moving though swamp lands like Shadowfen or Murkmire.