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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Speaks With Stone" data-source="post: 78439" data-attributes="member: 375">With appologies to Lord Pendragon and Rumiko Takahashi . . .I don't really have any intentions of trying to breed a master race in Rel's campaign world.  Much of this is in order to understand the druid place in the world.  I am currently trying to preserve wildlands on the edge of civilization.  I have considered relocating beasts and finding an ecologically sound method of balancing new species with the old.  One method of doing so is improving the local species - or if possible improving the local species to form a guardian species to protect the wildlands after I'm gone.  (Let's face it, in the campaign I'm in, life expectancy is not high).I also am curious if in a world full of druids casting Awaken and Reincarnate that results in lots of magical beasts that look like animals but have human intelligence, where they fall in the niche.  The druids must find that altering nature in selective ways is okay, or they wouldn't teach spells that do it.Consider awakening 2 oak trees.  Will they start dropping seeds for a forest full of intelligent trees?  With time and patience, a druid grove could provide a grove with natural defenders that would long outlive themselves (assuming they are human or in Rel's campaign).It seems to me that when they teach you these spells, they would also teach you the do's and dont's.  Which would obviously depend on the druid circle itself and differing opinions are bound to develop.</blockquote>

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