Silvanus forgotten realms9/1/2023 ![]() Most of his followers visited Gwaeron's Slumber at least once for a holy pilgrimage. Triboar law forbid any wood-cutting or hunting within the forest to avoid Gwaeron's ire. On rare occassions he could be seen walking in, out or amongst the trees. There stood a mystical forest known as Gwaeron's Slumber where many of the trees in were in a perpetual autumnal state, leaves dazzling in shades of yellow, orange, and red. Gwaeron was believed to rest and sleep just west of Triboar, a bustling town active at all hours and thusly referred to as "The Town Where Only Gwaeron Sleeps". The mural around the base of the stage in the Triboar playhouse, including Gwaeron on his seat. It was debatable whether Gwaeron's home plane was the Prime Material Plane or the House of Nature he could freely wander both, though he had realm of his own there, and his "realm" on Toril was Faerûn as a whole. The arrows retained their magic only in his hands, save for the occassional cases when he bestowed one to a ranger on a specific quest to defend the forest against a specific enemy. These included normal sheaf arrows and arrows of slaying that worked against any sentient mortal who ever desecrated a forest without repentance. He also possessed a +3 composite long bow and a quiver that provided an inexhaustible supply of arrows. Flameheart had a +2 enchantment against regenerating creatures, +3 against creatures that were avian, inflammable or harnessed the cold, and +4 against undead. Gwaeron's personal melee weapon was Flameheart, a +1 flame tongue. Gwaeron was proficient in all weaponry but specialized in the use of two-handed swords and composite longbows. Trolls were particularly vulnerable to Gwaeron's attacks. He could cast shroud of flame as a powerful wizard every minute in addition to his normal capabilities, as well as various other spells normally. ![]() Gwaeron could cast wind walk and imbue natural attunement with his touch, both at will, as well as grant favored followers natural attunement by manifesting as a footprint the moment before they stepped in it. Only divine power could force him to lose a trail, and there was nothing, magical or mundane, that could get him lost. Not even teleportation or shifting planes altogether was enough to shake his pursuit, let alone worldly if irregular means of movement like flight, and he could plane shift himself (and himself alone) to follow the trails of anything that did, picking up even on a month old examples of such irregular trails. He had no rival in discovering the most obscure of woodland signs and finding paths several weeks old. Powers Īfter taking his legendary abilities as a ranger into consideration, Gwaeron's tracking abilities were still well beyond what one of even his level of skill and wisdom would normally be capable of. He considered them kin of Malar and a blight that would inevitably upset the Balance in the long term. Regular targets of this wrath were trolls, creatures that he so utterly despised that in his hatred for them he personified the very concept of a species enemy. He was quiet, reclusive and taciturn, preferring to teach through action rather than words, but while he was slow to anger, his rage was terrifying once invoked. ![]() Like his divine associates, Gwaeron was an advocate of the Balance of nature. ![]() Other manifestations included a nimbus of faerie fire or a bare human footprint with a faint impression of his symbol visible in the heel print. Gwaeron was known to manifest as or through a wide variety of woodland creatures, as well as pseudodragons and faerie dragons, either individually or as a group. He was normally silent, and when he did speak it was in terse sentences with little physical sign of emotion. ![]() He always wore clothing suitable for wilderness travel, but never anything above his waist. His hair was long and white, with a mane and beard that flowed and whipped in the wind, billowing even in the absence of a breeze (though this was possible because he was constantly wind walking and so created a breeze). Gwaeron always appeared as a 6.5 feet (2 meters) or 10 feet (3 meters) tall human male, robust and incredibly muscular despite his age. ![]()
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