![]() The seeds of her vengeance are sown, awaiting the light that will see them grow to deadly fruition once more. Alarielle’s mournful introspection has availed her little even the roots she has put down into her last haven have proved brittle and dry. ![]() Most of the Jade Kingdoms have been stolen from Alarielle’s guardianship by the rapacious armies of the Dark Gods. In these times of strife, it is these latter images that ring truest of all. The last tableaus, wiry and barren, show a weeping goddess curled in her private kingdoms, sealed away in a paradise besieged on all sides by scenes of anarchy and destruction. ![]() Later Alarielle is shown as a plant queen surrounded by a court of glowing tree-spirits, then as a wandering nymph distributing soulpods throughout the Mortal Realms. Those who walk the living branch-tapestries of Oyrha first see the barbarian king Sigmar waking Alarielle from a long hibernation, winning her gratitude, and the two hurling back a tide of darkness. Some mortal seers say Alarielle was born from the humblest of beginnings, others that she has always existed, but in Ghyran, the first depictions of her bounty date back to the Age of Myth. It is her children that raise the greatest life forms to maturity, that fashion beautiful worldscapes from the simplest seeds, and that sing the songs of paradise as the great cycles wind ever on. She is the nurturer of worlds, the mother of all life, who brings the endless potential of nature to glorious fruition. Alarielle has existed in one guise or another for aeons.
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