Achaean News
Shrine
Written by: Solitary Cynne Ravenwind
Date: Friday, October 15th, 1999
Addressed to: Everyone
My name is Cynne Ravenwind and I am speaking primarily to those who are loyal to the Church. Some of you know me some do not. I would like to share with you something that is important to me. I hope you read it and consider it well.
I speak to you not as a member of Oakstone, not as a servant of the Gaia, or the forest, and not as a member of the Druid class.
I do not claim that my words come from any of these sources. These words are my own and spoken as a child who loves her homeland and her family very much.
I was born in the village of the Tsol'aa which is located in the Aalen forest. My mother is Selaana, the adventuress.
My mother has an adventurous spirit and it led her away from the village on many occasions while I was growing up. She often left me in the care to Thaa'lis, the elder Druid who lives but a few steps from my childhood home.
I grew very close to Thaa'lis. It was he who instilled in me a fierce respect for nature and my desire to serve it.
He is the closest thing I have to a grandfather, and I make a point of visiting him, as well as my mother and half-brother, whenever I can.
Lately these happy reunions have been shadowed by a troubling situation. Right beneath the tree of Thaa'lis there stands a shrine, and it has been there for quite some time.
Thaa'lis has a gentle nature and has declined to comment on this suation. I however do not. I beg of the Church to remove the shrine in Tsol'aa and grant these peaceful people their isolation, for it is all they want.
I do not defile shrines. While the Church means nothing to me, I respect the rights and beliefs of others and would not destroy something sacred to them. I am only asking that the same respect be paid to my people.
Furthermore, the fact that this shrine was placed beneath the tree of the elder Druid shows great disrespect on the part of the Church. Do the Druids come into your home and set up groves? I think not.
You have a shrine outside the forest at the foot of the Vashnars, why do you need one in the village? Just what does the Church want with the village of Tsol'aa anyway?
May the road you must travel always lead you to the arms of your loved ones,
Cynne
Penned by my hand on the 4th of Ero, in the year 231 AF.
Shrine
Written by: Solitary Cynne Ravenwind
Date: Friday, October 15th, 1999
Addressed to: Everyone
My name is Cynne Ravenwind and I am speaking primarily to those who are loyal to the Church. Some of you know me some do not. I would like to share with you something that is important to me. I hope you read it and consider it well.
I speak to you not as a member of Oakstone, not as a servant of the Gaia, or the forest, and not as a member of the Druid class.
I do not claim that my words come from any of these sources. These words are my own and spoken as a child who loves her homeland and her family very much.
I was born in the village of the Tsol'aa which is located in the Aalen forest. My mother is Selaana, the adventuress.
My mother has an adventurous spirit and it led her away from the village on many occasions while I was growing up. She often left me in the care to Thaa'lis, the elder Druid who lives but a few steps from my childhood home.
I grew very close to Thaa'lis. It was he who instilled in me a fierce respect for nature and my desire to serve it.
He is the closest thing I have to a grandfather, and I make a point of visiting him, as well as my mother and half-brother, whenever I can.
Lately these happy reunions have been shadowed by a troubling situation. Right beneath the tree of Thaa'lis there stands a shrine, and it has been there for quite some time.
Thaa'lis has a gentle nature and has declined to comment on this suation. I however do not. I beg of the Church to remove the shrine in Tsol'aa and grant these peaceful people their isolation, for it is all they want.
I do not defile shrines. While the Church means nothing to me, I respect the rights and beliefs of others and would not destroy something sacred to them. I am only asking that the same respect be paid to my people.
Furthermore, the fact that this shrine was placed beneath the tree of the elder Druid shows great disrespect on the part of the Church. Do the Druids come into your home and set up groves? I think not.
You have a shrine outside the forest at the foot of the Vashnars, why do you need one in the village? Just what does the Church want with the village of Tsol'aa anyway?
May the road you must travel always lead you to the arms of your loved ones,
Cynne
Penned by my hand on the 4th of Ero, in the year 231 AF.