"I have been told that our past of sadness is best forgotten. I believe the past makes us who we are, and if we forget our past, all shall be lost."
-Ocri Todrick Genth, savior of the Tekosh
It was many seasons ago that the Druids of Moonlocke were just another clan of furres, living peacefully the lives they had chosen. They took in children from nearby towns and taught them in the ways of the Light. They lived in harmony, as they do with all else with the villages, and often put on grand celebrations for the town's furres. They did everything they could to stay out of the ways of the Churches, but often Priests would strike up conflicts with them, demanding they leave the town's furres alone. The Druids of Moonlocke also, on rare occasions, absorbed children they deemed fit and could get their parents to consent with. The children would come and live in Moonlocke and be trained as Druid children would. Over time the little furres would begin to grow and form features resembling the very Druids themselves. It is believed that the magic that eminates from the Druids makes furres who live with them and follow their ways become full-blood Druid themselves.
Generations came and went and Moonlocke became great and wonderful with its brilliant architects that had lived there over the years. The Druids taught everything that one could spend time learning. Everything except combat. Conflict in which harm was conducted against another was not with the Light and so forgotten. Yet one furre came and wished to learn combat, and his name was Odri Cecil. When the Druids refused him, he killed two of them and left. The Druids mourned this greatly. They found where Odri Cecil lived and had him exiled from those lands. The Koe Brotherhood was believed to be formed one year after.
The Koe started as just a group of outcasts becoming scarhawk thieves, but just as the fire spreads and grows, so did the Koe. Soon they were attacking travelers and raiding small towns. Once a traveling Druid was come upon, bringing fine wines from a far country to Moonlocke. Odri Cecil was reminded of his "enemies" and thus killed the Druid, drank his wine, and then took his men to Moonlocke. Cecil had formed the Brotherhood, and now was come back to have his revenge.
The Revenge of Cecil was an event talked about by many lands for ages. The Druids were slaughtered, only a handfull surviving and escaping with the Tekosh, the slab of Jade upon which is carved the six laws of the Druids. Odri had Moonlocke ransacked. Everything of value was taken and the temple was lit on fire. The Koe watched and laughed, dancing while they wore the blood of the Druids, celebrating in the firey light of the huge flames. This one act of pure hatred and mockery was so wicked that the good blood of the Druids seeped into them. Because they were furres of evil, it had an evil effect on the Koe, deforming them, putting their bodies in constant pain, and making them hate the Druids even more.
The small band of Druids that escaped was led by Todrick Genth, a Druid Ocri. He had saved the Tekosh and led eleven others out of the carnage before it was too late. They fled into the woods and traveled a long and perilous road to the Elven Realm of Sar'Dolith. In a village, on its border, they hid and after the death of Ocri Genth, the Druids decided they must continue to gather Druids, as was done before them, so that the knowledge would not die out. Cecil would not win this fight as he had won the other. In secret, the small band began an "orphanage" in which they took all the children who had no homes and taught them in the ways of the Druids. Yet now they teach what they lacked before: combat. It was decided by the new Ocri, Zobald, that combat was sometimes needed as a way of self defense. Years later, a practice was started called Jei'Gu, in which Druids were sent out into the world to do random acts of good and then return, bringing with them one pupil. This pupil would be called the Ti'Ra, Soul Locked. Even though there would come a time when the Druid can no longer train his Ti'Ra, the Ti'Ra would always be bound to his Rai'Tal, or Master.
And slowly time flows and we come nearer to the present. Odri Cecil still hunted the Druids, leading his Koe with ferocity and evil. Moonlocke stood undisturbed, covered in cobwebs and ash... until Quillion R'Nok made his Jei'Gu and came upon the abandoned remains of Moonlocke. Being an Ocri himself, he detected a power greater than anything he had ever known to exist in the Druids, back near Sar'Dolith. He spent a week cleaning and searching for it, only to come to the conclusion that it was underground. Following the ancient runes on the stone walls he found the enterance to the underground temple, a place that the Koe had not discovered in the Revenge of Cecil. It was dusty and filled with all sorts of creatures that dwell in dark caves, but Ocri R'Nok went through and cleaned it out. In Moonlocke, there is a certain power focus, generated by nature itself. Quillion, having been trained in a land far away, could feel it incredibly clearly, and it was wonderful. The Druids before had simply lived in it and known it always. Quillion reopened Moonlocke and sent for the Druids to come back.
It was a cold winter day when the ten Druids, dressed in cloaks that covered them whole, came trudging over the hill and into Moonlocke Valley. Quillion was dragging firewood in at the time, and he dropped the logs and approched them, using a walking stick to make his way through the thick snow.
"Where are the others?" he asked, for there were many more than ten Druids. The cloaked furres stopped, dropping the bags they carrie d into the snow. Each opened their own bag and lifted out a furry head, dried blood clinging to the hanging neck. Quillion was terrified. The lead removed his hood to reveal a gnarled face, a tangle of yellow sharp teeth, and eyes that glowed red like embers. The rest did likewise, and burned into all of their foreheads was the mark of the Koe, three slash marks through a circle. The ten Koe attacked him and he killed them all using his stick, fighting with a fury unparallel to any other at the time. He burned the Koe and buried each of the Druids' heads in the forest. He was the last of the Druids, and now, as his ancestors before him, he must spread the knowledge of the Druids of Moonlocke. For a year, Ocri R'Nok cast himself into Estei, a darkness in which he denounced himself of all responsibility. Yet now he had come out of it, a feat no Druid has ever done alone. He knew he must keep the knowledge alive.
However, as Quillion slowly started to rebuild the Druids of Moonlocke, another evil entity, far greater than Cecil's, had entered Moonlocke - the one known as Horitsu. With a lone scar upon his cheek, he sacked Moonlocke, and soon came a cry for help from the Druids. Answering this call was a young, misguided soul by the name of Hawk. Following him was the EdgeGuard, led by Stryyde"ll. Hawk was the son of Bane T'Claw, a famous warrior who had casted evils such as Horitsu away from the light in the past, but he was nowhere to be found.
Through guidance by the Druids, especially Kah NyteHowl, Hawk had grown from his mercenary background into a well-developed Druid warrior. Not long after this, Horitsu met his first defeat, and thus the age of Horitsu had come to an end - but not without a price. Having gone on a journey to refind himself, Quillion R'Nok had died from disease, and left his jade stone to Hawk. Hesitant to take the role, Hawk knew that he still had much to learn before he could lead, but thankfully, his friend and fellow warrior - Kah NyteHowl - had helped to guide him back to the light when he would stray, and helped him fight the new evils that plagued the land and the lands surrounding it. Kouji Ryoushin, Rebellion, and many more had taken advantage of the light in Moonlocke that began to ignite once again. Together, the team seemed almost unstoppable, backed by the new Druids of Moonlocke - they fought as one, they defended as one, and they embraced the light as no Druids before them had. The new Druids assumed the role of protectors of the land, but with such power, came great responsibility.
In the meantime, Chaos FireClaw and Tegane had rose to Ocri status, and the four led the Druids bravely. Not long after, Tegane and Hawk were wed, and Tegane had expected a child. This was a prosperious time for the Druids, and all seemed to fair well. Tegane had her child, while new Druids came into Moonlocke, but as long as the light exists, evil exists. The Druids paid the ultimate price when Kah NyteHowl and his golem compadre, NyteHowl, sacrificed themselves to vanquish the evil known as Locke Mayakashi. Hawk, Tegane, and Chaos FireClaw were then left to lead the Druids, but this would not last: soon Chaos and Tegane dissapeared, and Hawk was left to lead, alone. A new age is creeping upon us, one that promises hope, despair, tragedy, and love; a place where the battle between the darkness and the light is forever fought... these are the tales of the Druids of Moonlocke, an ever-changing race of furres and creatures that seek to find the light, and use it to extinguish the darkness that plagues them, and those they hold dear.