The Greensingers
Druidic Sect: Ambassadors Between the Fey and Mortals
Primary Location: The Twilight Demesne, Towering Wood (Thelanis manifest zone); Thelanis itself
Membership: Small; nearly all elves and half-elves
Symbol: None fixed; the Twilight Demesne itself is their living temple
"We, the Greensingers, celebrate the magic in the natural world, as well as the fey that embody that magic."
The Greensingers are the most philosophically unusual of the five sects. Where the other sects define themselves by what they protect or oppose, the Greensingers simply are — as nature simply is, in all its fickleness, beauty, and danger simultaneously.
Their core theology is an expanded definition of the natural world. Where the Gatekeepers view the planes as threats, the Greensingers argue that the planes are as natural as Eberron itself. Thelanis, Lamannia, Syrania — all part of existence's great dance. The Greensingers are planar advocates, and their particular relationship is with the fey of Thelanis, the Faerie Court. They serve as ambassadors between fey and mortals, protecting each from the other, navigating the places where boundaries between worlds grow thin.
Most Greensingers spend more time in Thelanis than in the material world. The sect is so isolated that most people are unaware of its existence.
Practices and Rites
The Greensingers have no fixed liturgy. The Twilight Demesne is their temple — a place in the Towering Wood where Eberron and Thelanis intertwine, where fey and mortals meet. Service is a form of worship: mediating a dispute between a fey lord and a human community, guiding travellers through a manifest zone, negotiating passage.
Ranks include bards alongside druids; warlocks with Archfey patrons are considered spiritually equivalent to druids. The relationship between an Archfey and a Greensinger warlock is an intimate bond with a specific expression of fey power.
Individual Greensingers sometimes develop peculiar personal rituals — one might plant reath vines wherever she travels; another might sing continually. These pursuits can end suddenly, replaced by the latest interest, but while the Greensinger is intent on them, she pursues them to the point of obsession.
Sacred Locations
The Twilight Demesne is the eternal gathering place. The City of Rose and Thorn — domain of the King of Summer, a powerful archfey — is accessible from within, though its location shifts. Greensingers travel freely to Thelanis itself.
A Dangerous Interest
Some Greensinger scholars have accumulated lore of an ancient ritual perfected by the giants of Xen'drik — a way to thin the walls between worlds. Their studies suggest the giants found a method to create manifest zones, and that those experiments may have led to catastrophic consequences. The scholars are deeply divided on whether to attempt these experiments. Some argue that creating manifest zones is not the same as opening portals; others resist the idea of forming artificial planar connections. Some have already begun trying, travelling to isolated regions — the Shadow Marches, the Mournland, Xen'drik — to experiment with group magic.