Druid

Druid.

A class of sorcerers who summons plants and animals or draws in and uses their strength.

A highly skilled druid could even shapeshift into animals and plants.

But the majority of druids could merely draw in a portion of an animals’ or plants’ strengths or communicate with existing animals and plants.

And even then, it was hard to find a druid at that level.

No, to be exact, it was hard to even meet a druid.

This situation was due to the war between humans and elves five hundred years ago.

At the time, the humans were expanding their power through magical and technological advances.

On the other hand, the elves settled in the Grain Mountains that bisected the continent and lived harmoniously with nature.

The humans who expanded their power and built towns and castles.

The elves who cherished each and every single tree and blade of grass and were content with their lives.

It was inevitable that these two diametrically different races would come into conflict with each other.

The humans invaded the elves of the Grain Mountain Range to control the entire continent and the elves fought back against the humans who laid waste to the forests, mountains, and rivers.

At that time, the druids amongst the humans – who loved the plants, the forest, and the earth – sided with the elves.

The humans were incensed by the druids’ betrayal.

< Once the war ends, all traitors shall be condemned! >

Their rage did not easily subside.

And so, the humans and elves’ war lasted over ten years.

And in the end, the war ended with the humans’ triumph.

No, to be exact, the elves, who saw the land and the forests become ill at the prolonged war, gave up their land and went into the vast forest in the continent’s south, thus putting a lackluster end to the war.

The humans celebrated, and from that point on, the continent’s history became the human’s’ history.

And true to their words during the war, the humans branded the druids as traitors and executed or threw them into jails.

And the druids who barely managed to escape or hide lived their lives while hiding their identities.

Despising the humans who executed or imprisoned druids as they pleased, and loathing the elves who threw them away like old shoes.

Like that, four hundred years passed by and the druids no longer showed themselves.

They became mere existences only mentioned in history.