BLACK TIMBER
There is a chuckle from Kree and Ivy,..should you retire and settle down in the Forest.. you will be permitted to hunt of forest broehters and sisters, as long as it is to keep you and your family fed...
Ivy waves a hand to the North east,..One may Hunt the Swamp... the grasslands, the Moutnains,.... for a fee the trace Elves will allow you to hunt..and the Ironwood elevs will allow people to hunt, for a fee as well... to Kill for anything othert the food, or self defense..is to suffer from a shorten lifespan.
There is another laugh,..There are parts of the Timber, that we allow outlanders to enter..but we watch them. If they gather fruit, nuts and dead wood.. that is fine. But? if they cut down a liviing Tree, of Kill a prize creature, just because...it is a prize creature.. then... they never leave the Trees.,
...except the one time... Ivy was laughing.
Aye.... There was a grand Patron of Tra. He would take a small army with him, to find Beasts that are grand trophies, sometimes, if a great beast was harassing townsfolk somewhere.. but.. you would thing he would fight slavers instead.. he can mount as many heads of theirs that he would have wanted.
He waves it off,..so?.. he made a big donation to Tra, in Ironmound and set out to Kill a Forest Runner..we do not need his help, to cull beasts from out lands.... when he was within 2 Miles of the Timber, we sent out scouts to warn him....when he was within one mile , we sent out scouts to warn him... so he Veered to the south west a bit and entered the forest, closer to the Swamp lands.... Half of His people stayed behind, because they did not wish to violate , the warnings we gave.. He did manage to take the ehad of a Rather large Forest runner, about half a day later...the 4 men that were with him shot it with crossbows tipped in a poison to slow it down.. then he used his longbow to weaken it further, before taking its head...
The story goes.. his for men at arms were never found, But the Wardens presented the head of the Hunter to the 4 who stayed outside our lands, along with thier master's weapons, the rest of his body was given to the forest .. The Temple of Tra sent envoys asking for reparations, for the loss of their greatest donor... Our Priest met them outside the trees, and explained the warnings, in the end? if we will not allow Ironmound troops in the forest... we are not going to allow folks to come and kill for sport.