Emmoth of the Galeb Duhr
Creature Compendium · by Herald Livana Arianwen
This creature of rock, soil, and moss is as massive and wizened as the Dragon's Teeth Mountains in which his clan resides. The passage of time is only marked upon his stony visage as the slow and gradual erosion of wind and rain. Though with sentience, his emotions are marked, as well, by a heavy brow or arrangement of cracks which serve as mouth. It is not the ravages of time that have molded a subtle, steady anger in his onyx eyes, but the ravages of progress upon the lands of Mother Gaia. It was she who lovingly gathered the waters from the River of Life, and poured it upon the very stones on the ground. With this blessed liquid, the Boulder-men, as primitive cultures have called them, became animated and breathed the essence of Gaia. Since their creation, these sentient monuments to nature have existed in hills, plains, canyons, valleys, and forests, forever watching and protecting the purity of their homes. But with the coming of the Awakened Ones, as the Galeb Duhr calls any not created by Gaia herself, the Boulder-men have shunned all other races and now few are ever seen. However, Mother Gaia, weakened and angered by the raping of her creation, whispered a calling into the winds for her children to rise and restore her. Being eternal observers, all of the Galeb Duhr had no will to fight and act as a whole, except one. Emmoth heeded her cries to return the world to a pure state without cities and their corrupt nobility and without the twisted beings of Light and Taint, as he views them all perversions of her will.
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