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I enjoyed our meetings, even the ones that saw me bleeding in acid at your feet!

Good show.

I place a vote for elemental circles, simply because it would make spell selection a much more enjoyable experience rather than needing to overload on buffs in favour of ignoring much more interesting spells for necessary utility.

Have a wonderful festive season, everyone!

As a long time nature player, I can only once again echo that there is much fun to be had in the wilderness. If you're thinking of trying a Druid, or any nature related concept then the Circle of Stewards are always in need of members.

Don your leaf related armours, grab your knobbly wooden staff or club and go for a walk through Ymph. You won't regret it.

[SIZE="4"][COLOR="Wheat"][tface=goudy]Amothiel[/tface][/COLOR][/SIZE]

[Wood Elf]

[SIZE="4"][COLOR="DarkGreen"][tface=goudy][tface=meddon]W[/tface]ardens of the [tface=meddon]G[/tface]reen [tface=meddon]F[/tface]light[/tface][/COLOR][/SIZE]

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[COLOR="DarkOliveGreen"][tface=goudy][tface=meddon]W[/tface]alk in harmony with nature and oppose the efforts of those who would disturb her delicate balance. Preserve the wild places from excessive encroachment, and work with those who would settle the land to preserve the beauty that first attracted them. Hunt only for sustenance, culling the old and the weak from the herd so that all species may prosper. Like an arrow in flight, it is difficult to arrest the consequences of an action. Choose your targets carefully, for an ill-considered action can have a long-reaching impact.[/tface][/COLOR]
[COLOR="DarkGreen"][tface=goudy]―  The dogma of Solonor Thelandira[/tface][/COLOR]
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[SIZE="4"][COLOR="DarkGreen"][tface=goudy][tface=meddon]W[/tface]ho are we?[/tface][/COLOR][/SIZE][indent][COLOR="DarkOliveGreen"][tface=goudy][tface=meddon]T[/tface]he Wardens of the Green Flight are a Wood Elven faction that follow the path of Solonor Thelandira, with a hope to bring about a more honest Elven presence upon Ymph. Reverence to nature and an honest, balanced view of all that they meet, the Wardens embody what it means to be a Wood Elf with a continued hope to live their lives under the canopy of the Forlorn Underwood, with a future view of moving their homeforest to that of the Elf Wood and uncovering the ancient and hidden lore of the Tel'Quessir that resides deep in the heart of Ymph.
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Wood Elf (Copper)

The wood elves are among the most numerous of Faerun's elven people, a young and confident folk who hold the old elven forest homelands in strength. Theirs to the second generation of elven nations, wood elves see their realms as the natural successors to lands such as Eaerlann and Cormanthyr. Where the old empires expanded with strength and pride, the realms of the wood elves hope to grow with compassion and humility. The wood elves do not view their homelands as a land apart from Faerun; they understand better than their kindred that for better or worse, their fates are bound with the fates of humans, dwarves, and halflings around them.

Also known as copper or sylvan elves, these people have coppery skin tinged with green, and brown, green, or hazel eyes. Hair is usually brown or black, occasionally blond or coppery-red. Wood elves prefer to dress in simple clothing, similar to the moon elves, but not quite so colorful. They favor a simple cut to tunic or dress, set off by common embroidery in natural designs.

They are particularly fond of leather armor, and they often wear lovingly tooled and well-crafted suits even when they do not feel endangered. Their clothing, leather armor or not, is usually dark shades of green and earth tones to better blend with their natural surroundings. They are a humble race and only rarely do they enhance their appearances with jewelry or similar accessories.

Wood elves are as tall as most other Faerunian elves but more heavily built.

Outlook

Wood elves are clam, serene, and difficult to surprise. Their patience is legendary. They are at one with the world of nature, and are not comfortable in areas of heavy civilization. They have lost the urge to build and replace nature with walls and palaces; even the cities built by their elven kin seem to be foolish to the wood elves. They have come to believe that buildings of stone are transitory in nature, and that in time, the forest returns to overgrow the greatest of cities. Other races interpret this attitude as fatalistic or condescending, and as a result wood elves find it hard to understand anyone who isn't a wood elf.

Characters

Of all the elven subraces, the copper elves have the least fascination with arcane magic. They understand its power and a number of their folk study its way, but ultimately the artifice of arcane lore is simply one more way of expressing dominion over the natural order of things, and the wood elves view it in that light. Wood elves make excellent fighters, rangers, and rogues, relying on their natural strength and quickness to meet challenges. Wood elves from particularly remote forests sometimes become barbarians. Clerics are somewhat rare among this people, but druids are very common and are the most prominent spellcasters of the race.

Society

Wood elves live at ease with nature, using what naturally occurs in the world to shelter or defend themselves. They are not nomadic, and claim large territories in the deepest woodlands of Faerun. Some wood elves choose to do without houses, furnishings, and any possessions they can't carry, using the high branches of great trees or natural caves in their roots for shelter and storage. Most wood elves instead prefer to dweel in small villages of permanent homes of natural fieldstone and lovingly carved wood, so carefully concealed among the surrounding wilderness that a human hunter might walk through the center of a wood elf village and not even notice that he had done so.

Wood elves adhere to a tradition of leadership bt their oldest, and most experienced druids, although most villages form a council of elders selected from the wisest and most experienced elves of each family to handle day-to-day affairs. The druidical hierarchy serves to unite wood elves of different villages and weld all the wood elves of a particular forest into a common realm. The druids do not pretend to tell the elders how to run a village, but the elders generally give great weight to anything a druid chooses to day.

Wood elves excel in the hunt. They spend much of their time stalking their chosen territory on the search for food or intruders into their realm. The rest of their time is spent frolicking among the branches; in this regard, they are quite similar to moon and wild elves. With the end of the Retreat, wood elves are quickly coming back into contact with the Civilized world. Although they are reluctant to allow others into their lands, wood elves understand that times are changing. If they are to survive as a people, it may be time to change for the copper elves to change as well.

Deities

Wood elves worship the Seldarine, but they hold a special respect and reverence for the ancient forest powers of Faerun, Silvanus and Mielikki. Among the Seldarine, the wood elves hold a particular reverence for Solonor Thelandira, the Great Archer, and Rillifane Rallathil, the Leaflord. Solonor, as the deity of archery and the hunt, is viewed as the special patron of the wood elves, and before battle a wood elf will often invoke his name.

Relations with Other Races

In the five hundred years since the fall of Eaerlann, the wood elves have been forgotten byt most of the other peoples of Faerun. Only those humans and dwarves native to the North and familiar with the borders of the High Forest have seen copper elves, and even hen, they most likely met a solitary hunter or ranger. While the wood elves shelter deep inside forbidding forests and are therefore inaccessible to their neighbors, they are ironically among the more compassionate and understanding of the elven subraces. Like the moon elves, they accept the power of humankind and seek to live alongside their human neighbors and guide their expansion instead of seeking ways to deter or intimidate the human lands.

Wood elves have a long history of cooperation with the shield dwarves, whose realm of Ammarindar stood alongside their own realm of Eaerlann for many centuries in the vale of the Delimbiyr River. By extension, they look favorably on most other dwarves, too. Gnomes and halflings are both greeted as friends and potential allies. On the other hand, the wood elves have a cold place in their hearts for creatures such as orcs and gnolls, who brings axes, fire, and slaughter to the forests the wood elves have sworn to preserve.

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• Alignment: Chaotic, focused toward Neutral
  
• Class: Ranger, Fighter, Druid, Bard
  
• Race: Elf (Primarily Wood Elves), Half-Elf