I know I am no longer either Druid, Gaian, or Oakstonian any longer in
an organizational way, however I will have my say toward you as someone
who is still very much a forest-dweller in his heart.

My Mother is no longer among us, that bit of your post is entirely true.
I will grant you that, but I need not be reminded of that fact within
your snide, extremely rude remarks towards those who were fellows in the
same Order that I held membership with and whom I still consider to be
very much my family under one Mother.

As for Lord Twilight's claim on the Darkenwood, what does my Mother's
passing have to do with the legitimacy of the claim that it is every bit
a living, growing forest every bit as much as the Ithmia, Aalen,
Aureliana, and Black Forests? It has been stated by various people that
the Darkenwood essentially has "parentage" of both Gaia AND Twilight.
Simply because a child's mother perishes does not change the fact that
it is also her child. The very claim you made in that regard is
absolutely preposterous. I, unlike many others, will not say that Lord
Twilight has NO right to claim the Darkenwood as partly His. But I'm
absolutely disgusted that this argument is STILL continuing. It is a
DARK FOREST, and as such it is partly nature and partly darkness. Nobody
can dispute that, on either side of the argument.

Now, if the truth of the matter truly IS that the Order of Darkness AND
those of nature wish to protect the Darkenwood, then you really only
want the same thing and should stop arguing about it and actually
PROTECT it.

As it is, the casual observer may actually get the idea that it's all
about the herbs and harvesting rights. And I'm sure you do not wish
people to believe that, since from what I myself have heard Lord
Twilight considers it holy ground. However, as I'm speaking entirely for
myself as a lover of the forest and do not represent the Druids or
Oakstone in any fashion now, I was only giving you MY viewpoint as a
person who was a member of the Order of the Goddess you decided to drag
up before the public eye.

As for the rest of your argument, I'll leave it alone. I'll leave it to
those it actually involves.

Darryl Winterhart

Penned by my hand on the 3rd of Scarlatan, in the year 308 AF.