(09-03-2016, 09:17 PM)Solenne Wrote: As I said, my character would have been a Wood Wailer who ended up in a situation where he became so overloaded with woodsin that his mask could no longer protect him (that is why Wailers wear the mask, yes? And I read that the masks can shatter if they absorb too much woodsin), and the wood claimed him.
Yes that is why Wood Wailers wear the mask!
J'moldva Wrote:Our masks allow us to avoid the gaze of the elementals. The magic within them hides far more than the flesh beneath. The forest is our mother - we hunt and harvest when and where she tells us, and we would give our lives to protect her. Still, culture and nature can never be in complete harmony. It is an unavoidable fact that some of what we do serves to anger the elementals. At such times, our masks spare us their greenwrath.
And yes, they can become overburdened by Woodsin!
??? Wrote:If the woodsin upon a soul is too great, the power of the purification mask may collapse under the burden. But I do not think you are in any such danger.
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(09-03-2016, 09:17 PM)Solenne Wrote: Sometime after the Calamity, he would wake up somewhere with very little of his memory intact. I know something like this occurs to an NPC in 1.0, but I believe that character still belongs to the Elementals.
Yep, his name is Morys!
Ingram Wrote:Yes, Brother Morys was indeed a wildling. Very few of the conjurers are privy to this. Those who do know have been forbidden to speak of it. Once claimed by the wood, one undergoes certain…changes. Wildlings have great potential to become powerful, powerful conjurers. If knowledge of this fact were to become widespread, we fear many would allow themselves to be turned out of lust for power. But once claimed, wildlings can seldom be retrieved from the wood.
Soileine Wrote:I spoke to you before of the mysteries surrounding Brother Morys. But I was not entirely open. He was found some time ago, fallen in the forest. Not unlike the knight you yourself found. He bore no sigil or crest, and claimed to have no memory of how he had come to be there. Try as we might, our attempts to coax him into recollection yielded nothing. And so he began his life again, in the forest, as one of us.
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(09-03-2016, 09:17 PM)Solenne Wrote: But what about now? What happened to the Wildlings that were running around the Twelvewood when the Calamity occurred? We know that the Elementals were severely weakened by the Calamity, and going by the 2.0 Shroud quests, there's no reason to believe that they're still claiming a bunch of people and turning them into Wildlings. Is it possible that someone who became a Wildling at some date prior to the Calamity could have been released by the Elementals after they were weakened?
It is possible, but with the severe lack of lore regarding the wildlings in ARR, it's hard to say for certain. I may add this to my list of questions for Fanfest. But there are canon cases of the elementals relinquishing their hold of their tempered souls, so it may very well be possible that the Calamity's crippling of the elementals might have released the hold over a wildling's mind. Though it still might be unwise for a wildling, former or not, to attempting straying far from the Hedge.
Pudgy Moogle Wrote:And are you— Hey! You understand what I’m saying, kupo! Save a wildling? You mean one taken by the greenwrath, kupo? Taken and claimed? Cleansing a wildling is not easily done, kupo. The conjurers must perform their cleanses. Purges and cleanses, rituals and rites.
Kan-E-Senna Wrote:I have imparted the truth of what transpires, and in their benevolence they have forgiven us much of the greenwrath. So, too, have they consented to return to us those forestborn who were spirited away.
I hope this helps! ^^ Here's the rest of the lore I was able to dig up on Wildlings.
