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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isida Kep'Tukari" data-source="post: 2367187" data-attributes="member: 4441">There was a time when things were simple.  There was also a time when life was considered sacred.  Now often it is discounted, pushed away, discarded like a dry leaf.  I won't let that happen anymore, not now, not ever again.  For fifty years I devoted myself to the power and glory of nature, and for so long I did what I could, not bothering to trouble myself with what I could not change.I don't worry abou that anymore.  Now there is little I can't change.  Life will be respected around me.  No axe touches trees in my presence without permission, no life is taken that I will not try to return.  I was born to serve in the glory of nature.  Now I am but a step below the gods.~~~Background:   Fairweather was born a hunter’s daughter on the forest’s edge, the only daughter and child of Renweth Deepstrider, as his wife, Jaleen, died in childbirth.  Her first days of life were rather precarious, and her father once swore to her that she only survived because of a miracle from the heavens.  She learned to hunt and to respect her prey, as her father did, how to search in the woods for the foods she needed.  However, it was in one of her wanderings that she was confronted by a large dire mountain tiger mother with a pair of cubs.  She was certain she would die, but to her surprise, the mother tiger rubbed up against her and treated her like her own.  Astounded, she didn’t even hear her father come up behind her.  When she heard his gasp, she whirled around.  Her father was dead white, and she asked him, fearfully, what was going on.  In a moment, Fairweather’s life was turned upside down.  Her father told her that in his sorrow over his wife’s death, and the thought of his own inability to raise a babe, he took the infant Fairweather deep into the forest and left her there in a small cave.  He returned a year later, out of remorse, and found his infant daughter being suckled by a dire mountain tiger.  He waited until the tiger left, and then stole his daughter back, sure that her survival was a sign from the gods.At hearing this, Fairweather was troubled, and told her father she needed to find her own path.  And with that, she left with the mountain tiger.  For the next several years, she lived in the woods, learning the ways of the wild from the perspective of the beasts.  With the mother tiger, she raised one of the little cubs as her own, and called her new friend Kessian.It was almost ten years befor the young druid emerged out of the woods again.  She found herself drawn to the cities that her father had always disparaged, determined to find out about them.  She felt that she had mastered much of the wilderness and wanted to see if she could master such an alien environment.It took her twice as long to master the nature of the cities as it did the nature of the wild, and she lived much of that time as a dog, cat, or rat.  But it was here where she learned of the life of adventuring, and power of magic, and the strength of diversity.  In the city was where she learned to interact with different people, even those that found her native home as strange as she did the city.After leaving her extended stay in the city, she spent the next several years adventuring and traveling all around the country.  She taught other budding young druids the secrets of woods, but she never took an apprentice, finding little amusement in traveling with those much younger and less experienced than her.  She far prefers to travel with peers, those that she will not have to protect.~~~This character will be a druid, possibly with a PrC, but I would need to know what books are available before I go and declare anything.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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