Greetings Sapience,

I have heard several times (well, twice atleast) some variation of 'you
should always serve Nature' when people, especially forestals, talk
about my plan. But, what I believe they don't understand is that I am
serving Nature, albiet a different definition of what Oakstone would
like to believe.

Currently, under Oakstone, serving Nature revolves around putting out
the occasional fire, not overharvesting, and dobbing in any who happened
to have pick a couple too many berbs/exterminated/holocausted. Animals
are convieniently left out of the equasion under the guise to 'The
Natural Cycle', where they would all die anyway, so who cares who kills
them?

The Nature I have been trying to serve extends further than plants, the
Nature I serve is not concerned simply with the welfare of things that
grow and can make money, but with the health of Sapience itself.
Ecologies exist everywhere, from the Nithmia to the heart of Mhaldor,
though many people may wish to ignore the fact.

Oakstone exerts it's authority over plants into the Cities of Sapience,
yet it does nothing to aide the cities in anyway. Vast numbers of
animals only live in cities, rats, paradise birds, parrots, dogs to name
a few, yet are any of these members of Natures realm protected by
Oakstone? Is there any city that can truely say they are better off
having Oakstone influence it? Within the cycle of Nature, Oakstone is
unmoving, it doesn't return anything to the systems that support it,
rather it is like a plague of mice, raveshing everything it can before
moving on to greener pastures.

The Nature I serve is different, it does not impose on healthy systems,
but rather seeks to heal those systems that are unhealthy, and threaten
to harm Achaea at large. Right now, the unhealthy system is the economy,
and to attempt to correct this I embarked on a quest using the resources
I have available to me, that most others do not. I am a rogue Druid,
living in Ashtan, and thusly I have the freedom to use the second
largest business in Achaea to try to correct the failing economy.
Obviously I handled it poorly, and such you see such posts as my
previous one.

Nature as I see it is not 3 trees and that bush over there, but the
successful interactions of systems that make Achaea work. At the moment,
the economy is steadly inflating, as can be seen with the rising credit
prices, and I thought that perhaps one person may be able to, if not fix
it, atleast slow it down a little.

I am expecting to see atleast one post on the subject of Nature going
along the lines of 'But Demeter said...', and to this I will say one
thing, hoping that I will not be disproven by Demeter posting, Demeter
is currently Asleep, any of Her teaching currently available are
recorded in mortal terms, either written or held in memory, and as such
are fallible.

Accipiter

Penned by my hand on the 5th of Ero, in the year 374 AF.