[The Faceless:] Some of us do not care about your feelings, only survival.
[She shifts to human Gaia:] Others among us do. The worlds should not just be preserved for green life, but also for the other life that walks among it.
Some of us have protested your involvement; it is cruel. Intervening against destructive powers and facing grave danger should be a choice.
[The faceless again:] We are not a monolith.
[The human face again:] But those of us that disagree lack the power to oppose the majority.
As for your enemies, the trees listened in on your meeting with Lord Elrond: you are facing the enemies that Elrond told you. Sauron and the Unfinished Princess are the greatest among them. You have met many of their lackeys already: the Nazgul and the Nightrenders serve and are allied with Sauron. The Sisters in crowfeathers and the Shadowhunters that tried to capture you are servants of the Unfinished Princess.
Both of these great powers know of your coming and the Green's intentions for you. It couldn't be helped; too many in this world hold the power of prophecy, including servants of both.
Something unknown even to us broke this world, and now it slowly unmakes the worlds around it, as the new world it made grows more and more unstable.
[She holds up a hand and an illusion is visible of what looks like a world of plant life swirling with unnatural color and beauty.]
What was here before the Wilderlands was the realm of the Green. It was once a spirit world, not a physical one, where the soul of the Green of many worlds, could commune, rest, and find spiritual respite from the environmental destruction in many of their worlds.
It was never meant to be a realm of the physical, and it was never meant to be directly exposed to destructive powers like Sauron and the Unfinished Princess. Something unknown to us broke reality, and pieces of physical reality, of the worlds the spirits were attached to, were pulled into it, merged into a new world.
Now, with every bit of environmental destruction, the spirit of the Green continues to weaken and die, the destruction worse for the destroyers killing the very spirit of the Green and not just the plants they inhabit.
In nature, in the physical world, the destruction of the body need not destroy the spirit, due to cycles of decay and regeneration. It is different here.
[The illusion shows the withering of the plant spirits, ethereal forms falling and fading out as armies hack and burn at the plants they inhabit.]
The worlds these spirits are attached to will start to die along with the Green, as the plant life withers and the environment collapses in each world.
[She shows the cascade in a world of plants dying, then grazing animals and prey animals, then their predators, all starving to death.]
[Humans, at the top of the chain, are not immune. They start to wither and starve and fall down dead. She closes her fist and the illusion stops.]
Most of you are from worlds reliant on the environment for survival. Entire food webs will break down and all life reliant on other trophic levels will die, including humans and many other species.
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[She shifts to human Gaia:] Others among us do. The worlds should not just be preserved for green life, but also for the other life that walks among it.
Some of us have protested your involvement; it is cruel. Intervening against destructive powers and facing grave danger should be a choice.
[The faceless again:] We are not a monolith.
[The human face again:] But those of us that disagree lack the power to oppose the majority.
As for your enemies, the trees listened in on your meeting with Lord Elrond: you are facing the enemies that Elrond told you. Sauron and the Unfinished Princess are the greatest among them. You have met many of their lackeys already: the Nazgul and the Nightrenders serve and are allied with Sauron. The Sisters in crowfeathers and the Shadowhunters that tried to capture you are servants of the Unfinished Princess.
Both of these great powers know of your coming and the Green's intentions for you. It couldn't be helped; too many in this world hold the power of prophecy, including servants of both.
Something unknown even to us broke this world, and now it slowly unmakes the worlds around it, as the new world it made grows more and more unstable.
[She holds up a hand and an illusion is visible of what looks like a world of plant life swirling with unnatural color and beauty.]
What was here before the Wilderlands was the realm of the Green. It was once a spirit world, not a physical one, where the soul of the Green of many worlds, could commune, rest, and find spiritual respite from the environmental destruction in many of their worlds.
It was never meant to be a realm of the physical, and it was never meant to be directly exposed to destructive powers like Sauron and the Unfinished Princess. Something unknown to us broke reality, and pieces of physical reality, of the worlds the spirits were attached to, were pulled into it, merged into a new world.
Now, with every bit of environmental destruction, the spirit of the Green continues to weaken and die, the destruction worse for the destroyers killing the very spirit of the Green and not just the plants they inhabit.
In nature, in the physical world, the destruction of the body need not destroy the spirit, due to cycles of decay and regeneration. It is different here.
[The illusion shows the withering of the plant spirits, ethereal forms falling and fading out as armies hack and burn at the plants they inhabit.]
The worlds these spirits are attached to will start to die along with the Green, as the plant life withers and the environment collapses in each world.
[She shows the cascade in a world of plants dying, then grazing animals and prey animals, then their predators, all starving to death.]
[Humans, at the top of the chain, are not immune. They start to wither and starve and fall down dead. She closes her fist and the illusion stops.]
Most of you are from worlds reliant on the environment for survival. Entire food webs will break down and all life reliant on other trophic levels will die, including humans and many other species.