Verdania:
The Root Witch

In the sacred groves that once dotted Garn's heartland, the Root Witches tended trees older than the Empire itself. They read omens in root patterns, healed with sap and bark, and maintained the ancient pacts between civilization and wilderness. Verdania was the youngest ever inducted into their mysteries, her Earth Primal nature allowing her to hear the songs that trees sing beneath the earth. When foreign merchants arrived seeking lumber for their fleets, she watched them hack at the Heart Oak - the mother-tree whose roots connected all groves. Her sister witches died defending it, their blood feeding its roots. Rather than flee or fight, Verdania performed the forbidden Binding of Branch and Bone, merging her soul with the dying Green-Mother to preserve both in eternal slumber within the Infinite Forest. Awakened by Damea's divine resonance, she emerged to find her beloved forests cut down. Now she journeys to join the gathering Primals, her fury as deep as the roots she once tended.