The Woodland

Is being lost and hurt your destination? Does wandering through this woods full of peril seem like the right choice now? It was only a badger, but badgers know where their strength lies. Do you?

Come inside my lodge, take your breath. We do not light fires during nightfall, for we become nothing but a mark to the creatures lurking in the shadows. You are not cold, do take my word, but shivering with uneasiness that this woods bring to every newcomer. Do not let my wolf companion bring you to an end.

"Hatti, Rok, Frenn". Worry not, I befriended you.

Skadi is my name, member of the Emerald Enclave, caretaker of nature in all its forms, and warden of this woodlands, here to keep an unending watch for any unnatural forces that need to be put down, ensuring there is a peaceful existence between Old Nan's Manor and the wilderness. I walk this hunter's path with my eyes closed. Question my skills, and you might as well begin to pray to your god that you survive an encounter with the famous owlbear. But this is not the place nor time for stories of countless combats with monstrosities and terrible giants, for those things, are better left witnessed than said.

I shall leave you to rest now. Fear not the roars and crackles of the woods, not often they come from a dragon.

We’ll have the first watch.

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Strength was the path laid before me, but it was not the one I chose. In the darkest moments of captivity, when others saw only a half-orc with muscles to break chains, I found power in the mind’s quiet resolve. It was not the force of my fists, but the persistence of my curiosity and the hunger for knowledge that set me free. Magic became my tool, wisdom my weapon. Now, I stand among these ancient tomes, a guardian of forgotten lore, proof that true strength lies not in what we are born with, but in what we dare to become.”

— Gorath the Unlikely