![]() Comparable to wizards, druids were nature's lorekeepers, possessing an enormous degree of knowledge about the inhabitants, locations, and phenomena of Toril's wildernesses. ĭruids were not the only caretakers of the wilderness, though they were perhaps the best known. This distinction was, however, lost on most. The primal power that druids drew upon came to them not through control, but through a spiritual unity with the forces of nature. To a druid, claims of power over the wild was something that only those lacking a proper understanding of nature could profess. However, although druids drew great power from nature, druids, nigh universally, did not see themselves as masters of the wild but rather its servants, much as a cleric might serve a god or a knight his liege. Powerful sentries of the natural world, druids were often seen by outsiders as primal controllers of the wilderness. But though druids may have accepted cruelty in nature, they abhorred that which was alien to it, violently opposing the existence of aberrations and undead, both of whom were affronts to the natural order. Likewise, druids believed nature exists outside of civilized conceptions of good, evil, order or chaos, instead seeking only to maintain a natural state of being which most of the civilized world cannot or will not understand. ![]() ![]() Believing that nature's health depended on a precarious balance, druids believed that the four elements of the natural world - air, earth, fire, and water - must be prevented from ever gaining advantage over one another, lest the world become dominated by the forces of the elemental planes. Known for their mysterious nature, druids called the wilderness their home, emulating the ways of wild beasts and other creatures of nature. ![]()
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