Wickeryadi

Legend

“According to scholars, the Wickeryadi stands outside the Boriac, Vornir, and Stoicheian schemes. How they spring alive is a mystery, but suddenly young trees may gain thoughts, voice, and motion, turning into a Wickeryadi.”

“The Flora embracing Spirit, is by some considered Fylgia and by others previous Wickeryadii.”

Skjald Ulrich

 

Description

They are of flora origin, or at least related to flora. Tall masses of trunks, brances, and leaves. And they tend nature. Aside from keeping nature a place where Flora can grow, at times when other beings try to tame and shape ‘the wilderness’, they emerge and stop the explorations. Wickeryadi seldom mingle with other races, yet sometimes their nature-tending habits make them attack and erase settlements. This has brought them on uneven terms with as good as all but the Fautyr.

Another reason they shun other races is ‘the spirit incident’, when a small group of both Alfar races, creators and created alike, returned from a visit to the Vornirs at the Astral. As they returned to our world and took rest in a groove, the nearby trees sprang alive, not by receiving Wickeryadii Spirits but by consuming those of the Alfar. Thus did the few Drakk Alfar Void Weaving masters, and their ‘creations’ perish; their spirits and the Wickeryadi sapplings instead became Dryadii and they became Vampires.

Skjald Vinotis

 

History

They say their birth was due to mana leaks from the astral, swirling into the Void. As, some of these leaks did not crystallise but floared, dripped, and sprayed with vague pulsing, creating raw materials. When touched by Mana anew, some formed into flora, which upon further tainting would change and come alive with instincts and mobility. As some of these began examine the mana leaks the increased contact with the memories of the mana sea, they gained voice, gleaming eyes, and the capability of thought.

These living and thinking Flora existed for a long time, tirelessly tending to other Flora a long time before Vornir and Boriac started to care about the Void. So when the Vornir began to tend Mana swirls of the Astral into things and beings in The Void, and the Boriac began collecting and linking. The Wickeryadi were already tending flora and some races in The Void, keeping them hidden from the astral divines, as if they knew what would come in the future.

Skjald Vinotis

 

Before being discovered by their cousins, the Boriac, the Wickeryadii had managed to create a vast range of Flora out of the leaking mana. A flora range we call Combat Herbs, as they are not tied to Vornir fate threads and have strange effects. These Combat Herbs they tended with some Drakk Alfar tribes, which the Wickeryadii taught many things – recalled from the leaking fragments they had encountered.

At some point their teachings spread from the Drakk Alfar to Ljost Alfar as well, who in return taught them things learned from the Vular. It’s said the Vular became upset, or that it was a plot by the new gods becoming jealous, and a disaster struck these knowledge-traders. Summoned to a meeting to learn more, they was lured into a grove in which the Wickeryadii had just prepared some trees for awakening. At the Moons peak, someone withered all the trees just as the Wickeryadii spirits came, and drained all the Alfar. Confused the summoned spirits, saw nothing but Alfar husks faintly radiating their last aura energies, and took residence in them.

Wickeryadii was for a long time blamed for the Vampire incident, but as clues began to form the elder divines realised it was the gods. Thus they wanted to tame the astral, and even lured the gods into helping enclose it, by wrapping the void around it. But alas, as things unfolded, the gods realised the danger to their origin, and obstructed many a void garden seaming. But, our world was formed none the less.

Skjald Sejrik

 

Some ancient notes hint at Boriac teaching Wickeryadi divine knowledge and Wickeryadi teaching Boriac Void Weaving in return. As Drakk Alfar had worked for ages alongside Wickeryadi before meeting the Vornir at the Astral, it is likely that the Drakk Alfars deep insight in both Void Weaving Hand Weaving Mana Threads originated from Wickeryadi and Boriac.

Weaving skills were so fully mastered that the Vornir allowed some Drakk Alfar to watch and eventually aid in the creation of some Ljost Alfars.

Skjald Valgrif

 

This spirit-consuming incident has been fuelled by vampires, aldermen, and even some Gods fueling the dispute, which has been argued to be a deliberate Wickeryadi action. The purpose is claimed to be both an erasing of the Drakk Alfar touched Ljost Alfar and to limit Void Weaving knowledge amongst the Other Races. Wickeryadi’s denial of these outrageous rumours has been futile.

Skjald El Mary

 

When they finally came… Invaders without shame…

Eventually was cut down… losing victorious crown.

Skjald Kazumix

 

Organisation

They live alone, tending a section of forest or wilderness; most often, the nearest of their kind is more than a day’s walk away. They generally shun contact with other races and will try to force resting parties away.

Skjald Yell'a'Beard

 

Special

A dormant Wickeryadi about to spring alive will catch the nearest spirit.

Skjald Sigurd