Symbar - Mother of Darkness

Yet another leaf fell into his hand, fiery yellow with a rust-red rim.Ardil regarded it without feeling anything at all.The torrent of hate, sorrow and dread he suffered when he first noticed the shift had subsided, leaving him in a state beyond hope, beyond despair.A tortured cry cut through the morning haze, made him turn his gaze to the south.It didnt sound like one of the newly awakened dead, or one of the otherworldly creatures haunting the ruined city below.A human?He knew they were coming, hungering for the riches of Symbar, too greedy to be stopped by warnings or threats.He let the leaf fall, nocked an arrow and started moving towards the source of the cry.For a millennium, the Dark Watch had managed to keep the darkness fettered in peaceful slumber.But that was before the humans of the south came fleeing across the mountains, before they entered the woods hunting for more.And if Ardils guess was correct, they had now reached the heart of the forest, where the perpetual summer