The Wildwood Queen is Nature made manifest, and She is none of the things you listed. And the comparison is not only ridiculous but offensive.

She is not Good, for it has no opinion on righteous action. What is sacrifice to the natural world? Forgiveness?

She is not Evil, for it is not selfish and cruel. It has no aspirations of domination of others, and what is weak in the eyes of a Sartai is an integral part of the ecosystem. If only the strong remained, everything would die, the circle of life broken.

She is not Order, for what is planned in the climbing vines of ivy? What is structure in the winding of a river?

She is not Chaos, for corruption and destruction with no intent of regeneration is the antithesis of Nature.

She is not Darkness, for the life-giving sun keeps no secrets. The bright sky is open, and the verdant forest absorbs its limitless energy. Nature tells no lies, It simply is.

Nature is the rhythm and hum of life, sentient and not. Roots shall push up the cobblestones of the cities, and ivy shall pull down their stone-hewn walls, but it shall never "balance" Itself against the artificial ideologies of those who abase themselves in service to Good, Evil, Chaos, and Darkness.

Until Nature embraces all,
Lothien Lashyr-Windsong


Penned by my hand on the 14th of Phaestian, in the year 696 AF.