The Circle of Restoration is a coalition of newly autodidacts Druids and apprentices, funded in the late years of the 22thAC century in Meranthe. Practicioners come from many different origins and beliefs, and gather together in their interest and love for Nature, and the preservation of it.

While still anew, heterogenous and currently lacking leadership, they are motivated by their goals and passions to protect the environnement ravaged by the intensification of magic.

Starting with low numbers and a relatively weak force, they avoid melding themselves into any conflict for now. This allows them to prioritize the study and rediscover this lost magic and start healing some of the abandonned regions in Meranthe as a form of practice.

It is uncertain how this Circle will last with how recent it is, and what their practionners will discover.

# Fundations
With the last centuries' rituals from the forces of the Pantheon and the Fel against each other, the normalcy of the Land has greatly suffered and it challenges the common mortals in their daily lives further more than ever. Even with most of the Fel's forces routed, the Strife in the Pantheon between themselves and Outsiders still encourage these rites to persist further and still intensifying. This accumulation causes abnormalities of the surface of Nature and drastically affect those who live near these scars, to the point of altering the ambient ecosystem. Outbursts of Lifestream are even reported to appear in some locations of Meranthe, creating oversized and invading growths.

Growing concerned with the state of Meranthe's Nature and the escalating powers at Humanity's disposal through their rites, some people would act outside of Settlements to gather and discuss of the current problems with the environnement, find solutions, and assist with each other. Various groups of Pagans and some would join such, hinting to research and learn the forgotten arts of Druidry to heal the world without the assistance of surnatural intervention.
Efforts are done to research such lost art through the different books of history. But some of these researchers would mention that during their sleep, they received advices from an ethereal voice, to "prepare their mind, body and goals for the arrival of a mentor that shall teach them. They shall be the First Circle of Druids that will sprout and branch within Meranthe after many centuries."

Therefore, this group would gather together, putting asside their banners and their faith to write common goals to achieve to be worthy of these lessons. Their group shall be baptized as the Circle of Restoration, in reference to their goal to heal and mend the world, but also reduce the presence of the "surnatural" in Meranthe's nature to a safer level.

# Goals
## Primary Goals
### Nature's Restoration
Meranthe has been ravaged by wars and other land shattering miracles and maledictions. Some of these locations can provide environnemental issues to nearby locations, while others make such territory to be inhospitable to live. Druids of the Restoration seek to mend the surface, to allow Nature and/or humanity to settle once more there.

### Nature's Protection
With how unstable the Lifestream within Meranthe has been through this last century, sometimes Leylines may outburst and cause ravage to its surroundings. Druids of Restoration seek to find a method at how to prevent these outbursts, and hope that this "Voice" shall provide an answer once it arrives.
*Some rumors of some already zealous practionners talk about disturbing any public rituals once they have the strength to do so*

### Assistance to Flora and Fauna
Enthusiasts and passionned to plants and animals, these druids express respect and nurturing values to these living beings, as they represent the biodiversity of Meranthe. With the ravages of the environnement, flora and fauna living in these locations are primarly affected.
Druids of the Restoration seek to provide relief and conservation methods for plant and animal species to avoid extinction.
*The question about magical beasts and other surnatural and spiritual plants is not yet clear if their presence shall be allowed or not*

## Secondary goals
### Symbiose between Nature and Humanity
Druids of the Restoration seek to teach people how to live in symbiose with Nature. Humanity has needs, but Nature also does it. Both can help with each other. Even if Humanity has progressed to live with less dependance to Nature, all of this progress is only a construct that can fall at any moment, while Nature remains everlasting. Nature can be a rough mistress to anyone unprepared or treating it wrongly.

### Humility of Humanity
*Not openly expressed. But many of the practionners put the blame of today's situation to the violent nature of Humanity. The Strife between Religions, Witchcrafts and other "unusual" schools of magics such as Arcane and Sorcery, has risen to ground shaking levels. While many still respect faiths and understand their belief, the escalation of these conflicts have forced humanity to seek more and more power against their opponents, with little regard to the consequences of the environnement.*

*The reason of why such is not publicly expressed is of course their lack of strength and knowledge to find answer to this problem. Even if this goal is not achievable realistically, the best they can already do is informing and encouraging moderation.*

# Symbol
The Symbol of the Circle of Restoration is a necklace of preserved nuts, but most notably acorns. The acorn being a fruit that symbolises growth and strength similar to how they grown from a simple fruit into a mighty large oak. This symbolizes how the Circle of Restoration would bring druidism into humble, small beginings. As they are convinced that later it may branch into greatness once the arts is fully learned.

Along with their collectivist ideology, this is a group effort of many different people regardless of their origins (thus why some necklaces are accompagnies with nuts other than acorns). Therefore, this is why the necklace does not feature only one acorn.