Subject The first night

Upon arriving at the campsite, Ragnar gingerly gets off his horse and starts to walk around, slowly, muttering to himself. "First ships, now galloping horses... Why people think their own two feet aren't good enough to take them from one place to another, I'll never know..." When Salix approaches and asks him to look for firewood, however, he ceases his mumbling and does as requested.

Finally seated around the campfire eating dinner, and only shifting slightly in his seat from his discomfort, Ragnar takes the opportunity to ask a few questions about the Great North Woods. "I never lived anywhere near the woods myself, so I'm not too familiar with them. Do any people live in them, other than the druids?"

Subject The Great North Woods

"Many people live on the edges of the woods, but few live deep in the woods. The druids have encampments through several areas, but there are vast sections where no one lives. I have, at times, traveled for days with out seeing anyone else."

Subject The Great North Woods

"Yup. My folk live up near the great woods, few of us live deep in the woods. We'll go in there for huntin' and stuff, but only crackpots stay."

Subject The Great North Woods

Salix nods. "However, Mund lives near the most wild portions of the Woods. The Woods stretch for a 1000 or more miles, from Eld to the WildLands. In Eld and Bhyo people are free to risk the edge of the woods with out much peril. Only when they go deep into the woods do they risk the dangers within. Don't get me wrong. These dangers are natural ones, common to all large forest. Bears, wolves, other predators. Natural dangers. However, the Woods nearer the WildLands is more dangerous. The creatures more feral and there are spots where evil has taken hold."

"Part of this is the forests response to attacks by people. The Wildlands is just as it sounds. People do what ever they want with out much thought of consequence. They will burn large sections of wood just to clear land for a road when they could have logged the trees to build something with them. Not that we druids would have been happy with the logging, but at least the trees would not have died in vain."