Email 2021-03-26 14:53

**Quercuis' notes on Uil Treesoar**;

Uil Treesoar is a troubleshooting druid for Wyldwood - he sits on the main council but as a non-voting member.

Was in Tobar when senior members of religion became aware the Guardian had passed on. Onwen was both a 12th level Druid and a 5th level Cleric explaining the avatar. Uil immediately commandeered a wardrake and flew here (Q. analysis - that means that drake covered c. 300 miles in around 4-6 hours which is a pretty impressive rate of flight although it is possible Uil or one of his companions had one of those very useful distance distorting pets). Having arrived he could not find any way into the villa so retired to a neighbouring villa to plan his next move leaving an invisible spy watching the front door.

Uil laughed his head off when Q. asked about the White Tree at Far Haven. Suggested that Bez Drock was senile or that Onwen was entertaining himself by confusing the poor idiot. The White Tree was not white nor indeed necessarily a tree but certainly not the White Tree although it may have been a silver (definitely not white) birch which might admittedly be a tree but it wasn't ever and will never be the White Tree and Far Haven was only a secondary shrine anyway and the party thinking they know about it is therefore completely irrelevant because it's all complete and utter bollocks. (Q. analysis - this is bollocks. What has happened only remotely makes sense if there was a source of very great power in the temple at Far Haven and it being the earliest known Wyldwood shrine also supports this probability - Bez Drock went through it with a fine toothcomb in order to find and eliminate all the druids hiding away in cupboards or in trees and therefore had a very good idea what was going on there. Q. also thinks Bez Drock and Onwen must have been close friends to be able to live like this for 25 years and does not think Onwen could have maintained a lie to Bez Drock about this for that amount of time or any good reason why he would do this. Q. also probed the underground defences of the temple at far Haven and found them to be very substantial and not what you would expect for a twenty-five plus year abandoned site. Uil did admit that high level Wyldwood's can transfer between the main temple sites (including unimportant secondary sites like Far Haven!) using “the trees” so Q. is of the view that there is some form of functioning shrine down there which can still be remotely accessed. However, the cover story is what we can expect from senior management and it might be better for us to stick with this in public.

Golderod was not clearsighted and therefore had genuinely no understanding of what had happened at Far Haven. (Q. is under the strong impression that only a few members of the main council at Tobar and Stormhaven were clearsighted which gave it a major problem in translating messages for the rank and file).

Almost all the main Wyldwood temples are in the west or centre of the island apart from Starport. When the schism happened there was a significant geographical split with the Wild in the east and Wyldwood west. Q. – this is probably important in that you would expect Solaran politics to be more intertwined with the religion than Alveran, although there is a pilgrimage level shrine at Starport this seems to be the exception for the east.

Meaning of the symbols on the stones – there are stories of some clans of all of the elder races staying with the Wild (not just some giants) through the schism. Q. - the Dark Hoof Centaurs tend to support this, therefore there will probably be Wild ariel, lizardmen, maratasen etc – something to look forward to.

Saratak seems to have been expecting the party to be in residence at White Beach by the time Onwen was attacked so the Blue Witch was probably just a rabbit hole. Probably the clearsighted were the only ones with a good chance of "finding" him quickly enough to make a difference - so much for his calculations. Q. is not sure whether the projected attack on Far Haven by either the Wild or the elves was connected to the desire to complete the unpicking of the GSOV or because it was the probable location of the White Tree. Probably both sides were scouting (Vinmira for the Wild) trying to figure out the best way to complete the job.