The Forest Folk
Elder kin of the Wood, who remember the world before Stonetop's first stone.
- Scope
- Regional
- Alignment
- Inscrutable
- The Green LordsVassal
Their ancestors were mortal servants of the Green Lords in the Great Wood.
- The FaeNeutral
They called the Fae Good Neighbors and Hidden Ones, respecting and avoiding them.
Stonetop was the newcomer. The Forest Folk had walked The Great Wood for generations before the village's first stone was laid — wary neighbors, once-mortal servants of The Green Lords, and the reason no axe ever falls on a living tree of the Wood.
They tolerated the newcomers on one condition: never fell a living tree from the Wood. Over generations the two peoples exchanged favors, friendships, stories, and bloodlines, and some villagers still bear the strange forest eyes inherited from those old ties. Their ancestors lived nomadic lives in small bands, communed with spirits of the wild, dealt cautiously with The Fae, and left glyphs, sacred places, and old camps throughout the Wood.
What happened to them
The Forest Folk are absent now. Their disappearance leaves dangerous creatures unchecked, sacred places empty, and old glyphs waiting to be read by anyone with the sight.
Hooks
- Flight from the Crombil
- A doomed war against The Fomoraij
- A servant of The Things Below hunting them
- A curse that turned them into trees
- Sickness, Fae intervention, or simple extinction