Lundar's Library

Day 193, Year 547

Today I heard from my friend Ailidh that Magnels, a clanmate and
long-time friend of mine, has left the clan E’las Loth’mon Ferindril.
Words cannot begin to express what I feel right now.

Magnels has been one of the longest standing members of our
sylvan clan, and I have known him since well before the Ripture War. He
was a clanmate, a friend, a brother, and someone whom I have always
looked up to. And now he has left us, as my former clanmates Astor and
Drue’Dreemi have left us, in the past few moons.

I feel angry, sad, confused, and betrayed. Our once vibrant and
active clan is now blighted and wasting away. Magnels thinks that the
only way to bring new life to our clan is by clearing out the “old
growth,” but I disagree. Does one go about revitalizing a forest by
uprooting its oldest pines? The eldest trees may not have much life
left in them, but they still provide strong foundations for the newer
vines to climb upon.

I sincerely hope that Magnels will reconsider his decision, as
well as the others who have left our clan in the recent past, that we
may work together to bring glory once more to the Clan of the Dark
Green Wood.