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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Marandahir" data-source="post: 9057667" data-attributes="member: 6803643">I think what they're getting at in this Druid flavour text is that while the Druid reveres the elements in the context of Primal Nature, when the Balance of Nature is thrown out of whack, one or more elements might take dominance over the others, and if so, the Material Plane itself may disintegrate into say the Plane of Fire (or into say the Frostfell if it's 2 elements, or even into the Elemental Chaos if it's 3 but not all 4 that are dominating), and turned into a part of that plane. The Natural World is built from the bones of the Inner Planes, while the outer planes reflect the warring ideologies within our souls. The Elemental Chaos is the raw stuff from whence it all came, the Astral Sea and Wildspace are the expansive phlogiston upon which the Material Planes have been set adrift. The Druid wants to preserve the natural order, the way things are, the cycles of nature that slowly change and allow species to adapt and evolve to the changes. There may be catastrophes, yes, but never so great that the entire world and everything living on it would end. The Druid is the Warden against that terrible fate, the Ferocity holding back the Falling Moon.I also love that their animal companions they might summon are Fey. 4e had this weird idea that because the Feywild and Shadowfell are echoes of the Prime Material, they are incompatible with the Primal and incursions upon this plane of existence. 5e has a much more nuanced stance here. The Elementals are part of the natural order, but too much of any one element and things are thrown out of wack. Feywild is a place where things are as they were in the Spring of the World. It's much brighter and weirder than our day to day life, but it's not anathema to the Druidic Circles, because it reflects the natural order as it were in times long past. That's why the Circle of Dreams even explicitely ties to the Feywild. The Shadowfell itself may not be anathema to the Prime Material either, lest some undead army transform the entire world into another Shadowfell. Death is the natural order of things, and the Raven Queen and her Sorrowsworn and Shadar-kai enforce such order. Even undeath could be natural, in some cases, hence the Circle of Spores.This is as opposed to the Divine Cleric, who sees anything opposed to light and goodness and order and justice as evil, so they can turn undead and fiends and use their divine outsider aid to fight back all who claim to be fools to suffer the light.</blockquote>

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