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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 7598097" data-attributes="member: 92511">Druids are the keepers, guardians, watchers, and advocates of the Natural world, its knowledge, power, and secrets. They are the setting's first priests...an ages-long series of initiates of a singular order originating from descendants of the Green Tribe of Men, one of original Five Tribes of [the first] Men who befriended elfkind and learned/were taught the first mysteries and secrets of "nature" magic.Druid, as such, do not figure into the cosmology or metaphysics. They are beings that serve the forces and interest of the natural world. Nature/the natural world does not, s such fit into metaphysics or cosmology either. Thy are the forces and energies of physical world/material plane/campaign setting. The magic that stems and flows from it is akin to radiation, an e-m field, naturally occurring upon throughout the material world.No. While there are gods who claim stewardship and command of various facets of Nature, "Nature" is not aligned with anything but a stt of perpetua "Balance" that the druids are bound to monitor, protect, and maintain.True Neutrality is the "alignment" of Nature in game terms. So it is at once encompassing of all alignments while allowing supremacy of none. No.You keep asking bout Nature like it has its own sentience..rather than being the conglomeration of the energies and materials of the physical setting: life, death, the elements, the sun/moon/stars, the trees/stone/streams, animals, plants, weather. No, Nature would not "care." Though as mentioned, a druid could not be [a.k.a. pursue/promote/advocate for] "evil" and remain a druid/retain their druidic powers. Nature does not "care." Nature simply "is."  Druid acknowledge and endeavor to encompass all elements of Nature. As such being a "druid of death" would never really be a thing. A druid would never single out one solitary element of all the wonder and power of the Balance/Nature and serve/promote JUST that.What about it? That's the kind of thing the order of druids would be rallying, fighting, and dying to prevent.Nope. Stray that "far from Nature" and you wouldn't be a druid anymore...and in my setting the best you could hope for would be to lose your druidic powers and be evicted from the order...egregious divergences from druidic ways would result in your termination rather than simple ejection or "excommunication" (for lack of a better term).Big ole nope, nada, no.</blockquote>

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