Link,
I think you misunderstood me when I told you that you knew nothing of the forest. I meant you know nothing of the Feldrick Forest. The forest is all around us you see but quite a few miles away is the Mystic's homeland, a place once of peace and harmony amongst my people. It is a place that no one of non-mystic wood elven folk can go even in this time of terrible taint and chaos.
Let me tell you a story:
Long ago, about 206 years to be close, there was a disturbance in the Homeland of the Mystics. A chaos and disease had begun to fall on the forest and its people were beginning to be effected by it. Themselves and the Dryad folk who began to wake then were growing ever more tainted by the terrible thing creeping into the forest. The dryads were loosing their minds, the Mystics were doing all they could to hold off the spread. In the center, the heart of the forest there lies a sacred pool where no one but the chosen may enter.
A group of adventurers lead by myself and guided by the legend weapon of the Mystic wood elf people, went into the heart of the woods with the Aid of my Father Kismet Zanabanath, the keeper of the spirit of the wood. There, with my closest and most important friends looking on, I preformed a ritual to cleanse the pool and strengthen the protective force that which the Feldrick Forest required life force to renew. Lady Gwen and Lord Baron Garoth were there in support. I gave my spirit to bind with this protection, and the forest, resurrecting a renewed Mystic. Then we were able to rid the forest of the terror and chaos and return things to normal.
This protection has gone unrenewed properly for two centuries but the forest still keeps outsiders out. Some creature has allowed the sacred pool to be tainted and these chaos creatures to run rampant. They are keeping out those that rightfully belong there, out and keeping in those who are on the verge of starving. When I rifted into the Heart of the Forest I felt it's anger, and were were not far from the pool as I remember it. I feel that if the sacred pool were to be returned to its crystal clear glory, then the Feldrick Forest would be saved and I am willing again to die trying to save it. I was following a trail of chaos and death clouds towards their source but unfortunately they were overwhelming for the small lot that I took with me.
I believe that I will need a hefty force to clean this pool, and I am willing to apologize a million times over to the Forest once it is done, but the only way I can do it is with the aid of outsiders. I will need willing people to go with me and help clean the pool. I may also need that group to be willing to keep the mystics alive who are preforming the ritual. This won't be any normal ritual by magical standards and will instead me magic drawn directly from the Feldrick Forest herself.
I also know that a last bit of the puzzle Ahlana is trying to solve is in there somewhere and if we can accomplish both tasks, great. If we find the puzzle piece and then have to go back to fix the pool, at least I will have more time to prepare my fellow Mystics.
I am grateful for the help and I am willing to see this through to the end.
Are you still willing to help me since cleaning these pools is one of your priorities and my homeland has been severely threatened by them? I fear that the pool may be one of the biggest we'll have to deal with.
Kind regards,
Eldandiril Zanabanath
Guardian and Keeper of the Feldrick Forest.
