Nia Guardian of the Wild
“It is the peculiar nature of the forest, that life and death may ever be found within its bounds, in immediate presence of each other; both with ceaseless, noiseless advances, aiming at the mastery; and if the influences of the first be most general, those of the last are the most striking.” — Susan Fenimore Cooper —
In the depths of the wild, there’s still few places that stay unpollute from the corruption of humans. Our kind decided to leave that path centuries ago to get back our natural link to life, the elder ones saw how this new empires would not use the arts and the technology to improve people’s life and to have a better link with this world, in the contrary it would be for the warlords to accumulate power and wealth to submit the land and the living, causing death and corruption to our soul and flesh all around our world. Not all humans chose this path of death, but sadly most civilizations only understand power as a force of destruction, non-recognition and accumulation, and in this terms it’s impossible to see progress beyond colonization, deforestation, subjugation and death.
In this dystopian existence that nations have chosen to follow, our people got in the depths of the jungle and blocked the entry to the ones that are dangerous to the life that keeps the balance of this land. Our link to this place and its lifeforms are beyond the comprehension of their civilizations. For you, who have been raised in the hegemony of these nations, you might sound like we are an obsolete tribe that have stopped having relationships with the rest of the world, and in both things you are wrong. Our arts and crafts are made to be optimized with the landscape and the gods in it, our weapons are blessed with justice and the knowledge of the earth. The misery that your people have experienced for your ideas of progress are not a reality for us.
On the other hand we have never been isolated from the rest of humans, they have been looking for our lands for centuries, but we have learned to defend ourselves and to watch their moves, even get allies from outside our community.
In that last part is where I got my title we saw the necessity to find allies against our bigger enemies, at the beginning it was complicated, because usually we stayed uncovered when we go to their lands, but we needed to start diplomatic relationships, as a big empire of death was threatening the wild and the neighbor nations to take us all down. The meetings were “friendly enough” at least to keep our limits and to organize our defense. It ended in a huge success, the invaders weren’t expecting an organized army of many nations, they thought they would be fighting a bunch of savages and some little kingdoms. Though this time we won, we decided to keep the cooperation between the nations, at the beginning we weren’t really happy with the idea but the danger was imminent so I argued that if we keep the distances in the things we disagree, we could even push them to have a healthier relationship with the nature and at the same time, have them as a barrier of allies against our enemies. There’s still not many people happy about it; from both sides, but I’m here to protect the wild and our people and for now that’s the best way we have.
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