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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JoyHealinghand" data-source="post: 279305" data-attributes="member: 1127">Of the PeopleIn the 417th year after the triumph of Alexander, Tenebrea 17, 3rd SagesdayWe reached the main camp of the Tolnans today.  Under normal circumstances this place would be beautiful and majestic.  The tree are so old and the elves so graceful.  Yet, being here—no, not being here, being “of the people”—makes me sick to my stomach.  Why would anyone want to be part of a race that is so xenophobic they would kill one of their own, stupid ritual or no stupid ritual?  Words didn’t make Hevian any less a Tolnan.  I really don’t understand how they kill those who obviously only have their best interests at heart.  Don’t they want to live?  And the way they killed Hevian with such glee…  By all that is holy, these elves have a blackness in their souls.  It is only Hevian’s sacrifice and The Lady’s mission that keeps me here.  Hmm, I wonder if they have always been this bloodthirsty.  I will have to ask Olemar when we see him again.  Maybe the corruption of the Heart Tree is affecting the elves too.We have learned all we can from the Tolnans.  The Aina spoke with us briefly and sent Galen to answer our questions.  He told us:  "We only did one divination and it was drawn from an item of power.  We have no priests who can call upon such powers regularly.The Orn (the druidic clan) can tell that the creatures now surrounding the Heart Oak are unnatural but not undead.  We also see that every aspect of nature has been corrupted there.  The Great Tree itself seems to have changed its essence from an embodiment of the natural world to a source of corruption.    The divination was: 'What is the source of the contagion to the Heart tree?'The answer given was: 'The source is not here.  The enemy is not at hand.  None can reach the weapon that strikes you down.'We believe the words of the stars and strike out at the enemy we can.  I do not believe the Stredans are behind this.  Others think simply that some of them have placed themselves beyond our reach.  In either case, the People will not wait for death to take us.”This seems to match what The Lady told me when I prayed to Her for guidance.  When I asked Her, “How best may we, your champions, permanently remove the corruption of the Tolnan Heart Tree?”  She replied, “Find the other place; source of the illness; discover the keeper; turn the key.”I had been working on questions for the Commune I will pray for in the morning (we are not sure where to go from here), but I had to take a break, so I decided to write this.  I think I have done as much as I can on my own; I had better go check with the others.  I don’t want to miss any important questions.May the blessing of The Lady be with us all, especially the Tolnans, and May Hevian’s Gods hold him in the high regard he deserves.</blockquote>

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