Wransandoral "Treebeard"

Long ago, in the verdant heart of the Hwestan Islands, where the core of the Exalted Elemental, Hwesta floated, a sapling was born from it. This sapling, a product of life, grew and as the ancient and towering treant named Wrasandoral, a guardian of the Cururi Nenar, the islands’ original inhabitants. The Nenar were a reclusive people who lived in harmony with nature and worship of Hwesta, crafting homes within living trees and using magic to sustain the lush, magical ecosystem.   For centuries, Wrasandoral nurtured the islands, watching over the sacred groves and teaching the Nenar to commune with the spirits of the land as a speaker for Hwesta.   But peace shattered when, in 960 AC, Ravennian explorers discovered the islands and its abundant treasures: glittering veins of silver, rare magical herbs, eventually gat powder, and ancient artifacts imbued with the Nenar's divine magic. Colonists descended upon the islands like locusts not long after, colonizing the islands. The pretenses seemingly peaceful, none could still deny the Nenar's land slowly being stripped away, and the environment turned into a den of resource harvesting.   Bound to the islands, Wrasandoral hoped to stand in opposition, but when the angel Gaia appeared, she cast him into a deep slumber within a grove hidden away from the outside world, revealing it to be Hwesta's will that he be preserved for a future time when he would be most needed. In that time, a descendant from the tribe of Axari would reach Wrasandoral, and he would return.   The islands were transformed into a slew of colonies in the treant's deep sleep, which soon gave way to becoming a pirate haven when mercantile trade in and out of Ravenna became its main export.  

Wrasandoral Awakened

Wrasandoral awakened centuries later, stirred by the desperate prayers of a young Nenar shaman named Isha Couatli, the last of her family name. She had found his grove during a desperate travel and beseeched him to rise again. Her voice, carried by Hwesta's will rekindled Wrasandoral's spirit, and he awoke to a world scarred and broken.   A righteous anger festered deep inside the treant when he witnessed the state of the islands; he wished to reclaim them and punish the pirates, corsairs, and long-colonizers that had ruined its sanctity. However, with how much time had gone by, things such as arrows and spears had given way to new forms, like cannons and muskets. The Nenar, once a unified tribe, was broken into different sects and under the influence of this mercantile culture.   Despite the power he held over the earth as its once guardian, things were vastly different in that day than they were centuries ago. Wrasandoral could not hope to solve the issue like it would have been solved back then.  

Becoming a Pirate Lord

In the wake of a dominant culture driven by factions led by pirate captains, Wrasandoral acquiesced himself to fighting back in the same way. Hearing of his return, many flocked to him, most Nenar outcasts, some even outlaws who sought his refuge. Isha herself was chief among them, his first mate. From his grove, he took of its lumber a grand portion and fastened for himself a ship of his own power; it was adorned of everything Wrasandoral's grove carried, so that it would still remain with him, even as he took to the sea.   Behind his plant-woven sails was an ever-present indignation that would only be sated once the Ravennian colonizers were rid from the islands.   Wrasandoral and his crew became a force to be reckoned with, striking at slavers, sinking treasure fleets, and turning enemy pirates into unwilling recruits — or fertilizer for the ship’s ever-hungry roots. With his quick rise to power in the island's west, he swiftly became recognized as one of its Pirate Lords, those loyal to him keeping control of many holdings, the greatest of which was an old pirate town turned Nenar sanctuary, Mutiny Port.   He earned the name Treebeard in these times due to the strange mossy-white fungus that grew near his face in the shape of a beard.     Treebeard's flagship, the Everroot, and many others that followed made attacks against Sharkpoint and Mason's Crossing in repeated efforts. Treebeard's initial raids caused so much damage that the bleak news reached even the royal court in the capital, prompting the king to reassign the fleets to the south to pacify everyone; this reassignment included Senior Captain Irwin Morris, who was stationed in Mason's Crossing and tasked to defend the southern coastlines of Daphne Island in the Shrewfor Channel.   Very quickly, Treebeard and he became bitter enemies, one seeing nothing but a savage trying to cause a ruckus, the other seeing a tyrant trying to bring disharmony to Hwesta's holy grounds.