17:03	Pharmacy	wood grouse
17:03	Schazer	boom
17:03	Schazer	or the Capercaillie
17:03	Pharmacy	with a bear face
17:03	Pharmacy	and horns
17:04	Schazer	yup
17:04	Schazer	also North is just a place where some god or another made a giant fucking hydra plant abomination
17:04	Schazer	that spews Winter everywhere
17:04	Pharmacy	is it solbruins idea again
17:05	Schazer	nah I think there's a coldgod who did that
17:05	Schazer	it's after First Fall, anyway
17:05	Pharmacy	he wanted to make a good impression
17:05	Schazer	yeah
17:05	Schazer	I was thinking that the monster is called Northern Lights
17:06	Pharmacy	does it constantly leak aural borealis
17:06	Schazer	yeah its yelling is condensed into beautiful trails of light
17:06	Pharmacy	is it considered sentient
17:07	Schazer	nah
17:07	Pharmacy	jesus christ capercallies are huge
17:08	Schazer	yeah
17:08	Pharmacy	so is callie's people made after the fall
17:09	Schazer	yupyup
17:09	Schazer	one of the new gods' creations
17:09	Schazer	dunno whose
17:10	Pharmacy	probably the coldgod
17:10	Schazer	yeah
17:11	Schazer	or maybe a collaboration between coldgod and Catcher
17:12	Pharmacy	how advanced is calliefolk
17:12	Schazer	they're still pseudo-feudal
17:13	Schazer	a bit xenophobic
17:13	Schazer	but the ones who can't stand their countrymen's xenophobia tend to migrate out into the neighbouring lands
17:13	Pharmacy	like callie?
17:14	Schazer	actually, Tetraul likes his people ok
17:14	Schazer	sorry, Caille does
17:14	Schazer	Tetraul have a lot of respect for their mages though
17:14	Schazer	they're people born when Northern Lights reaches the chorus of whatever song it sings and all the heads actually manage to sing in unison
17:15	Pharmacy	wizards in general are pretty cool
17:15	Schazer	the mages are more inclined to go see the world
17:15	Schazer	so there's a misconception among races who don't know much about North that Tetraul are all magical
17:16	Pharmacy	magic is pretty common in this world right
17:16	Schazer	yeah
17:16	Schazer	it has specific sources though
17:16	Schazer	like some of Solbruin's monsters, and certain wellsprings the gods made, and obviously Northern Lights' singing
17:17	Schazer	the Tetraul have a strong sense of family and connection
17:17	Schazer	which kind of fuels the xenophobia
17:18	Schazer	they say if a Tetraul dies, everything and everyone it lived with dies a little as well
17:18	Pharmacy	super communal
17:18	Schazer	and when Tetrauls gain magical powers, it tends to manifest in some variation of that
17:18	Pharmacy	I bet they have extended families in long houses
17:18	Schazer	the power to give other things a sense of self
17:18	Pharmacy	is magic inheritable genetically
17:19	Schazer	nope
17:19	Schazer	it's like being born under a particular star sign
17:20	Schazer	Northern Lights' multiple heads sing, usually not in sync/harmony with each other, and the song manifests as the lights in the sky above North
17:20	Schazer	but when they do manage to harmonise, that's when there's more magic in the area and that's when Tetraul mages are born
17:20	Pharmacy	and one song infects a baby and bam magic
17:21	Schazer	p. much
17:21	Schazer	if you discover you have wizard powers, you're kind of obligated to figure out what they are and then go journey out into the world
17:21	Schazer	and then you can come home and be a good wise person to help settle disputes
17:22	Schazer	so a Tetraul wizard isn't just a guy who fixes things with magic, they help mediate social situations as well
17:22	Schazer	they're like Discworld witches
17:22	Pharmacy	does callie have headology
17:24	Schazer	nah
17:24	Schazer	that's all a bit philosophical for their tastes
17:24	Schazer	although it's similar in that a Tetraul mage is powerful and needs to be respected because, y'know, he's a Tetraul mage
17:25	Schazer	that kind of self-fulfilling redundancy
17:25	Pharmacy	haha
17:25	Schazer	Caille deals exclusively with environmental issues
17:25	Pharmacy	what magicks do they have the teraul
17:26	Schazer	so he rolls into a town and - if he's in a town that knows about Tetraul mages - he usually gets a bed to sleep in or at least some food
17:26	Schazer	finds out if the hunters or the lumberjacks or the like are having problems
17:26	Schazer	if predatory animals have been bothering the townsfolk
17:27	Schazer	and if everything's peachy, he'll probably go take a trek in the forest anyway and ask its side of the issue, check everyone's happy
17:27	Schazer	and if everything seems tidy and equitable, he'll head off on his way within a day or two
17:28	Schazer	but if the forest is upset about something, he's got to stick around and try to resolve it
17:29	Schazer	explain "look, you just cannot hunt that many deer"
17:29	Schazer	and if they won't see reason, Caille reserves the right to take the offended forest and find greener pastures for it
17:29	Schazer	that's what happened with Kolmarden Wood
17:30	Pharmacy	I see
17:30	Schazer	it was being mismanaged and people were being unreasonable, so Caille trundled off with it one night
17:30	Pharmacy	does the forest literally uproots itself and ollies out
17:30	Schazer	nah
17:31	Schazer	when he calls a spirit, if it's in or around its forest it looks like a big earthy tree golem thing
17:31	Schazer	but if the spirit leaves it's just a pocket-sized ghost
17:31	Schazer	and then the forest dies
17:31	Schazer	just has the life sucked out of it
17:32	Pharmacy	"screw this I'm out of here"
17:32	Schazer	so, Caille took Kolmarden Wood on his travels, and when he stayed in a village in the smack bang middle of a really huge marsh
17:32	Pharmacy	"Btw stop littering"
17:32	Schazer	they were really nice but were having trouble with getting through the winter
17:33	Pharmacy	dang
17:33	Schazer	so Caille talked to the marsh's spirit, and then had a discussion with the townsfolk, and they agreed to all work together and plant a whole tract of seedlings
17:33	Schazer	and then Kolmarden Wood's spirit could take up residence there
17:34	Schazer	and sure, it'd take a couple of winters for the trees to grow and animals to start taking up residence
17:34	Pharmacy
17:34	Schazer	awww damn that is great
17:34	Pharmacy	anyhoo continue
17:35	Schazer	but this way, Kolmarden would be happy, the marsh's spirit seemed happy enough (it was a big marsh), and the village hopefully wouldn't starve
17:35	Schazer	and they'd just released Kolmarden into the replantings and were having a party to celebrate a month's solid work, and that's when Caille got battleganked
17:36	Pharmacy	wow thanks nebulously defined grandmaster/mistress you just ruined a good party
17:36	Schazer	yeah
17:36	Schazer	Caille has a forest with him though, the forest he grew up in
17:36	Schazer	Tiveden
17:37	Pharmacy	whose it
17:37	Schazer	Tiveden is the spirit of Tiveden forest
17:37	Schazer	which is where Caille grew up
17:38	Schazer	he revoked his family's forest privileges because when he came home after learning a crash course in wizarding, they were being really reckless and wasteful and greedy with what they were given
17:39	Pharmacy	"wow stop treating the forest terribly"
17:39	Pharmacy	so how are they reckless/greedy/stuff
17:39	Schazer	"son no"
17:39	Schazer	"sit down"
17:39	Schazer	"eat these mushrooms"
17:39	Schazer	"they were always your favourite"
17:39	Schazer	"yeah dad, and I just learned these take twenty years to reach maturity"
17:40	Schazer	basically he lost his temper, and stormed off into the woods and sulked out there for a couple days
17:40	Schazer	talked to Tiveden, who's pretty chill
17:40	Schazer	"listen kid I could have it worse"
17:41	Schazer	but ultimately
17:41	Schazer	a forest doesn't have a tangible spirit until Caille pulls it out
17:41	Schazer	so they acknowledge Caille as their creator and master
17:42	Schazer	so when Caille said "we're going to find you a place where people will respect you" Tiveden was like "alrighty"
17:43	Schazer	and there's always the possibility that Tivs resents this and stops following Caille, except that Caille's clothing is basically sporting a tiny forest
17:45	Schazer	Caille takes really good care of Tiveden, but his obligations as a wizard mean they can't really settle down