I write this because your recent public post made me think. You wish any
who can erect a shrine, to come to you. You wish to know who the Deity
is to and where it is going so that you may maintain a map of this
location. You state that 'permission to erect the shrine' will be
readily given to any Deity that is not a threat to the forests.

One can say that you may wish in one hand... it will never fill up
though. You do not own the forest. You do not own the land it is grown
in, nor the land around it. You do not own any part of it.

You are a Council, a respectable one in theory. You are bound by Duty
and God to serve the forest. It is your responsibility to protect it.
However, to that limit you are charged with a massive chore in
patrolling the forest, hoping people do not harm the plantlife by
overharvesting. You patrol to ensure that no one is burning the forest,
or destroying it.

You do not however have the right to say who may place a shrine where.
You do have the right, that should you find the shrine a threat, or even
dislike it, as an individual or a collection of invidiuals, you may
remove the shrine. However, a shrine in and of itself is not a threat to
the forest, nor does it harm the forest. Nor, since you do not own the
forest, should anyone expect to inform you of a placement of a shrine
within the forest. The forests of Sapience are massive and stretch from
sea to sea. To have some ideality that you own and control the goingons
within these boundries is insane.

You do not control which Druid, or Sylvan (even if they are no longer
bound by their guild), imprints in which forest, do you? No. You do not.
Should one do, you cannot do anything about it either. A shrine you have
the ability to remove yourself.

I would not expect anyone to heed this charter when it is supposed to
protect nature, and yet claims ownership in a sense, over the forest.

Starrsong

Penned by my hand on the 16th of Sarapin, in the year 362 AF.