The Northern Marches are alive with the daily lives and toils of the peoples of the Northern Marches. This treatise aims to explore the various divine influences, direct and sublime, of the Northern Marches. There will be those known and worshipped by many, but also those more esoteric, or ancient beings that have lead us to the Marches we know today.
On The Sylvan Elves - Tudros the Caretaker, Phraellea the Radiant, Yra – God/dess of Riddles and Secrets
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| The Many Faces of Tudros the Caretaker |
Generations ago, When Tudros the Caretaker, The Ever-walking God of the Land and the Forest and the Meadows, gazed at the never-ending ceiling of the stars, he thanked them for their beauty, and asked them to always watch over his beloved land. And as he tended his earthly garden, he began to notice and encounter all manner of monstrosities and aberrations who seemed bent on destruction for destructions sake. They were small and weak, but in numbers they could devastate the land and the forest and the meadows he held sacred. So he asked the stars to provide him help from those who would care for and love and protect these lands from those who would destroy it. And one day he was visited by Phraellea the Radiant, Goddess of the Sky. She had heard his pleas and that she would lead two very different peoples to him, to be wardens of this land. The same night, Tudros was visited by Yra – God/dess of Riddles and Secrets. They told him that if he wanted to make these new peoples the protectors of the lands, they should make a vow and be tied to that bond forever forward.
Phraellea the Radiant
And so Phraellea lead the first peoples to Tudros. They were a beautiful people, athletic and lithe. Happy and inquisitive. She told Tudros they were from a long-lived branch of peoples called elves. They wanted to know what wonderful place she had lead them to. And she told them the sylvan boughs and towering trees were of the deepest woods. She named them Sylvan Elves and instructed them that her sky and stars would forever be over their heads, but that Tudros was the God of these lands and these woods, and that they were chosen to be their protector, and that this new world would embrace its new protectors and reveal its ageless secrets and provide for the people to survive and thrive. And then Yra showed themselves to the Sylvan People. They questioned the people and their mysteries. And proposed an oath for the people. And in exchange agreed to reveal their secrets of the wood if they became vigilant and proved diligent and inquisitive. And so, The Sylvan people embraced Tudros and Phraellea as father and mother of their new lands, and Yra as holder of secrets(knowledge) and teacher. And so the Sylvan Kingdom was born as protectors of the Deepen Wood.
Yra - God/dess of Riddles and Secrets
Phraellea also lead another group of people to Tudros as he
toiled in the open valley in the western part of his woods. These were not a
beautiful people. They were dirty, and hairy and wore filty animal skins and
carried great cudgels and gnarled staffs. Tudros was unhappy that Phraellea
would think that such an unsightly people would be worthy of protecting his
meadows and lands. Phraellea steadied him and told him that this group of
peoples was bound to each other, not be race or blood, but by their connection
to the lands and the animals and to nature itself. Not by interest, but by
compulsion and their very essence. And as such were more like his children than
anyone else. They came from far and wide, compelled to find a homeland that was
in need of their protection. And at this moment, Yra again revealed themselves.
And through her questions and riddles she instructed Tudros to find a place for
this people to protect, for they will give their lives to defend it, until they
can do so no more. So Tudors set them to protecting his meadow – The Silver
Circle and set markers around its rim to make sure they would not forget their
duty, and Phraellea and Yra enchanted them with that oath and obligation. And they agreed and made an oath to protect
this valley and Tudros’ Meadow until they can do so no more. The people quietly
made their oaths and agreed in a conclave that they would be the defenders of
the Silver Circle and that their order would be named after the valley they
protected. And so the Silver Circle Order of Druids was born, defenders of the
Silver Circle, the valley, its flora and fauna, as well as the woods that
surround them.
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