<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">Please note that this post was made primarily with voice to text then edited.  Because of this I may have mistakes or misspellings that I missed.  Please feel free to point out any errors and forgive me for them.  I didn’t want to wait much longer to work on a post and voice to text seemed like the right way to go.</div></div><br/><br/>Tehr bowed his head at Rosalyn acknowledging her wisdom on the subject, but spoke to Mother Dryad,<strong> “Your grace, generosity, and wisdom are the reasons I seek you out today.  But before I can accept the grand responsiblity of your kin, I must explain further what I meant.”</strong><br/><br/>Tehr took a deep breath knowing that his message could upset the dryad, and in truth the only reason he had to be here was out of respect for the creature and the fey people as a whole.  He hoped that this show of respect could lead to a partnership or at least mutual respect between humans and fey.<strong> “Mother dryad, my house… specifically me personally… have been given stewardship over a great lot of land.  The lands that my house once claimed as their own, among the human realms at least, has grown.  But my house is no longer a large or powerful one.  Even before this stewardship,” </strong>he was careful not to claim that house wynt ‘owned’ the land.  Somehow he felt that would convey the wrong tone to the nature spirit.<strong> “My family could not protect the lands that they were assigned properly.  Bandits and outlaws made their homes in the wilds, despoiling nature and attacking travelers and other peaceful denizens of the woods.  We have been making strides to try to bring law and natural order back to the lands that fall under our stewardship, but it has been a slow process and one with mixed results.  The addition of further lands under our control and recent relationship with the welsh elvish tribes to the west,” </strong>he gestured at Lady Rosalyn d’Caelor, “Have meant increased travel through the wooded region that my house now is tasked to protect.  This of course means more opportunity for those who would despoil the land and use it for selfish reasons.”<br/><br/>Tehr took a deep breath again, this was the part that would be difficult to sell,<strong>“I wish to encourage lawful and respectful members of the old faith to move onto the land, even create a new farming community on the land, midway between the borders of the land I am tasked to protect.  This would encourage faith in the old ways, reverence for the natural world, and increase the lawful protection of the land.  But of course this would also mean logging portions of the currently wild wood.  We would need to clear out at least a few hundred acres of wood, turning it into farm land and using that for homes, shops, wagons, and sailing ships.”</strong><br/><br/>Tehr paused for a moment and added,<strong> “This is something that is, in my opinion, greatly beneficial to humanity for certain.  I can understand how from your point of view as a fey, this seems like humanity encroaching upon the fey wilds.  But I beg you understand what is at stake.  Even if I did not move forwards with this, if I kept the wilds pristine, I would only live a few more decades at most, and then someone else would come along and likely move forwards with the plans to ‘civilize’ the wilderness.  They would not care about preserving the natural beauty of the lands, or of trying to merge human civilization with the natural beauty of the land.  They would not care about the old ways or the fey creatures or animals they might displace.”</strong><br/><br/>He looked mother dryad in the eyes then with full intensity,<strong> “That is why I came to you, I came seeking your help, your advice, because I respect you, I respect the fey, I respect the old ways, and nature.  I want your help or your advice how I may proceed while doing as little damage to the woods that I am sworn to protect, as little harm to nature, as possible, while still allowing humanity to move into that land and civilize it.  Will you help me?  Will you help me do this and work with me?”</strong><br/>