Halsin

{{Person }} Halsin was wood elf druid and the archdruid of the Emerald Grove on the Sword Coast during the late 15 century DR. He led his people in service to the Oak Father, Silvanus. "Grace is bestowed by nature, not me."
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- Grand Druid Halsin.

Description
He had an imposing figure, and was described as a "bear of an elf". He suspected his "bearish" figure was due to a half-orc ancestral link or some other species. He received the scar on his face during an incident while he was shapeshifted as a bear—a she-bear in mating season had mistaken him and was offended by his discouragement.

Personality
Halsin was a strong leader who was highly respected among his fellow druids.

He was polyamorous.

Abilities
As an experienced druid, Halsin was a skilled shapeshifter of the Circle of the Moon. He was capable of transforming himself into a mighty, gray-furred bear.

Relationships
"I had a friend when I was young, long ago. He played with me in the forests where I grew up... but eventually, I realized no one else had heard of him. It was Thaniel, of course. Nature was my very first friend. I get older, but he hasn't changed a day."

- Halsin.

Halsin was served well by his fellow druid Rath, and several others. While the senior Kagha served as archdruid in his stead, she hardly shared Halsin's outlook on leadership. He had an apprentice named Nettie.

As a child, he became strongly bonded and a playmate with a nature spirit, Thaniel.

He was the last of his line, with the rest buried in the High Forest under the Grandfather Tree. From then on, he dedicated himself to the Emerald Grove as his family and to Silvanus as his teacher.

History
In his youth as a druid, he visited the Underdark to experience its otherworldly fauna's beauty, but was captured by a drow matron mother and stayed in her House for three years as her imprisoned consort.

Sometime around, Halsin came into conflict with Ketheric Thorm and the army of Dark Justiciars he'd formed in the Underdark. While he emerged victorious, the great druid could not prevent them bringing shadow upon the lands around the Moonrise Towers. His friend Thaniel was cursed by Ketheric.

In the, Halsin opened up his grove to a group of tieflings that had fled west from the city of Elturel.

That same year, accompanied by his apprentice healer Nettie, Halsin encountered a drow who had been infected with a mind flayer tadpole, but had yet to undergo the process of ceremorphosis. The pair returned to the Emerald Grove to conduct an examination of the non-ceremorphed drow. Intrigued and worried about this, he began traveling west to the Moonrise Towers alone, meeting up with Aradin and his adventuring party along the way. Unfortunately, Halsin was captured by the goblinoid members of the Cult of the Absolute, and imprisoned within the ruined Selûnite temple referred to as the Shattered Sanctum.