Greetings to you all,

Normally I would let the thoughts of mortals stand uncorrected and let
them find out for themselves they are wrong, but My name has been used
in this recent debate and so I shall make My own judgements on some of
the issues.

First of all calling a city a product of nature is exactly that. A
product of nature, this does not make it natural. A city is based on
displacing, destroying, and changing the natural world around it so it
may grow. A stone road does not naturally grow up in a location, a stone
palace does not bloom from a seedling, a city does not suddenly sprout
and appear. It is built on the destruction of everything around it.

A commune may well have buildings, it may make swords, armour, clubs,
anything a city also makes, but it is based on living within the natural
world around it. A commune takes what it needs and does so with as
little harm to the world as it can. This concept that chopping down a
tree is bad, is foolish. If one needs wood to survive then chop down a
tree, where the shift comes is when one chops down a forest. A commune
realises that one can survive on what nature offers. It does not have to
take more than that.

Glomdoring may be a twisted memory of a once great forest, but it is
still a commune. The arguement of it being natural or unnatural is
academic. As far as I am concerned it is more natural than any city and
always will be. Therefore, I would welcome the view of any member of
Glomdoring in this debate, publically or personally.

Second, while I have a finite amount of respect for the mages of cities,
they are still city dwellers. I have no love for those in the cities or
those that choose to defend the ways of life of city dwellers, and this
is evident in the fact that no member of a city may be in My following.
A fact that has caused Me to lose more than a few respected members of
My following when they have left to join or return to city life. It
should also be noted that I have no love for those who use the tools of
nature to help a city prosper, those that have turned their backs on the
communes and chosen to live within the cities.

On the point of undeath and rebirth, anyone who cannot see the
difference has spent to much time smoking weed, drinking absinthe, or
just plain old has the wit and intelligence of a newborn calf. Undeath
is taking something recently dead and creating a mockery of life by
animating it, either through another's power, or by using one's own to
maintain the semblance of life. Rebirth, however, is taking something
that has died and giving it new life completely. The reincarnation of
one thing to another so that it may live out its life once more.


In closing I would like to address one final point I read, from Zacc:

"Would you rather Celest relocate to another plane or outside the Basin
so that the Taint could overrun it?"

Yes, take the other cities with you when you go and please don't let the
proverbial door hit you in the rear on your way out. As for the Taint,
nature will defend its own as it has always done.


Charune, the Horned Onr

Penned by My hand on the 7th of Dvarsh, in the year 174 CE.