Role

Chapter 2

One is as likely to see a neophyte or hierophant of the Black Thorn
worshiping the night sky, celebrating the coming of winter's frost, or
staring in trance along the grey ocean's shores at the cold and merciless
killing power of typhoons and hurricanes. Their most sacred runes often
represent aspects of nature so often forgotten by the high-elf leaning
wood-elves that populate the realm. In fact, it is said that the Black
Thorn holds the new moon on the shortest and darkest day of winter in
highest regard.

Due to the Black Thorn's even darker skin lending itself more towards
shades of ebony than "fair", some wood-elves in their hatred or
incomprehension of the circles priorities go as far to whisper and curse
that the Circle of the Black Thorn did not descend from the ancient
high-elves, but instead dark-elves who made homes in the forest from
their caverns long ago.

Perhaps the only thing the estranged wood-elves of the Black Thorn share
is their hatred of those who are not of the natural world. While the
circle of the black thorn is as likely to favor a volcano worshiping fire
giant as an ocean worshiping storm giant, they will put aside all such
competition with natural competitors in the pecking order to eliminate
those who exist outside the natural world. In fact, while many fear the
indiscriminate and bestial power the Black Thorn can unleash with little
thought to concepts of morality, those who find themselves defilers,
outworld, or twisted creatures have more to fear as the Circle of the
Black Thorn's primal savagery comes into focus against them.

It's said the circle believes that only in a world free of defilers, free
of civilized concepts of morality and invented social structure, can the
natural hierarchy of the natural beings that inhabit Thar-Eris be free to
follow nature's course and stake out their territory and place within it.