Member Traits

Members of the Emerald Enclave are spread far and wide, and usually operate in isolation. They learn to depend on themselves more than others. Survival in a harsh world also demands great fortitude and mastery of certain fighting and survival skills. Members of the Enclave who dedicate themselves to helping others survive the perils of the wilderness are more social than others who are charged with defending sacred glades and preserving the natural balance.

Goals

• Restore and preserve the natural order.
• Destroy all that is unnatural.
• Keep the elemental forces of the world in check.
• Keep civilization and the wilderness from destroying each other.

Beliefs

• The natural order must be respected.
• Forces that warp the natural order must be destroyed.
• Civilization and the wilderness must learn to coexist peacefully.

The Elder Circle

The Emerald Enclave is lead by a circle of three of the most powerful religious druidic leaders in the area. They are typically Chosen of Silvanus and are also some of the most sought-after personages in the area, hunted by both those who seek their knowledge and advice and those who seek to remove the Enclave.

Emerald Enclave Deities

• Mielikki, goddess of forests
• Silvanus, god of wild nature
• Eldath, goddess of peace
• Gwaeron Windstrom, god of tracking
  
• Malar, god of the hunt

Group Patron Benefits

Having the Emerald Enclave as a Group Patron provides the following benefits to the entire party.

Assignments. Your group may be assigned quests to further the factions goals.

Druidic Service. The Emerald Enclave can send a druid to assist your group when needed. You must be in the wilderness and it takes 24 hours before a druid arrives. The druid is able to cast any spell of up to 3rd level. These spells are cast without cost, however any material components must be paid for.

Proficiencies. You gain proficiency in the Survival skill, if you do not already have it.

Secret Trails. The Emerald Enclave knows of secret trails that lead to wondrous natural locations within Faerûn. Some trails lead to beautiful wild lands in the outer planes or on other worlds. These trails can be found in any of Faerûn’s forests. After walking the trail for 8 hours you will arrive at your destination. However, there is a 1 in 4 chance that you will run across one of the dangers of the trail. There is no cost to learning these trails, but your contact must feel that you are ready before they will teach you how to access it.

Emerald Enclave Ranks

Consumable items. Once per week, a character can select one consumable item associated with its current rank or lower and can only have one provided consumable in its possession at a time. Consumables provided by a faction can not be sold or traded, but can be used on other players. The item is lost at the end of the upcoming week.

Permanent items. A character has access to the current rank’s items, and of all lower rank items. These items can not be sold, traded, or gifted but might be replaced if destroyed or lost.

Rank 1 — Springwarden

Required Renown: 1

This is the rank a character receives when first joining a faction. It is available at character creation or any time the character wishes to join. Perks include:

Consumable item. Once per week, an agent can receive a Potion of Healing or another common magical item or non-magical item worth less than or equal to 50 GP when requested or retrieved from a faction loot satchel.

Permanent item. All agents are given an Emerald Enclave Leaf Brooch and a Faction Loot Satchel.

Downtime activity. The agent can choose to complete a faction job.

Rank 2 — Summerstrider

Required Renown: 5

At this rank, characters have shown that they’re aligned with the faction’s goals and are able to take on more responsibility. Perks include:

Consumable item. Once per week, a Potion of Greater Healing or 10 pieces of Silvered Ammunition when requested or retrieved from a faction loot satchel.

Permanent item. Agents are granted their choice of mount, along with one land vehicle.

Downtime activity. Once, an agent may request training in animal handling, nature, or medicine, training with a herbalism kit, or training in one language such as Sylvan or Primordial. Receiving training in a language or weapon typically takes at least ten workweeks, but this time is reduced by a number of workweeks equal to twice the character's Intelligence modifier (an Intelligence penalty doesn't increase the time needed), with a minimum of two workweeks.

Rank 3 — Autumnreaver

Required Renown: 15

Characters are reliable faction members, entrusted with many secrets and deserving of additional support during adventures. Perks include:

Consumable item. Once per week, a Potion of Superior Healing or up to 2 non-lethal poisons with a combined value of 500 gp or less when requested or retrieved from a faction loot satchel.

Permanent item. The agent's leaf clasp is magically upgraded and given the properties of a Ring of Animal Influence. Additionally, an agent can receive either a +1 weapon and +1 shield (if proficient), a +1 rod of the pact keeper, or a +1 wand of the war mage (if applicable). The items disintegrate upon leaving the faction.

Supernatural gift. The faction can call upon a deity to bestow a Charm of Animal Conjuring upon the agent.

Rank 4 — Winterstalker

Required Renown: 30

Characters are trusted voices within the faction’s leadership. They are looked upon as champions of the faction’s beliefs, and as mentors by those of lower rank. Perks include:

Consumable item. When requested or retrieved from a faction loot satchel, a Potion of Supreme Healing or a spell scroll of 4th level or lower.

Permanent item. The agent’s leaf clasp is magically upgraded and now also serves as a key to activate Emerald Enclave portals throughout Faerûn.

Sidekick. An agent gains one 6th-level sidekick that can adventure, go on assignments, or perform other tasks such as maintain a house or small inn.

Rank 5 — Master of the Wild

Required Renown: 50

Characters are ensconced within the leadership of the faction and have a great degree of influence, guiding faction decisions. Perks include:

Downtime activity.  Once, at the agent’s requested location, the faction will sponsor a spellcaster to cast Druid Grove, Teleportation Circle, Private Sanctum, or Temple of the Gods repeatedly for one year to make the spell permanent. The character does not need to be present for the repeated casting of this spell.

Supernatural gift. Once, the faction can call upon a deity to bestow a Blessing of the Zephyr upon the agent.

Instars

We are Instars. We are the torch that lights the way for the survival of nature’s dearest. We are the defenders of the wilderness and are tasked with educating a society that does not understand it. Most have forgotten that there is an ancient, natural order that held sway long before we formed our intellectual concepts of it. To come into contact with that primal order is to touch the power that guides all of life.

Those who walk the way of the Instars are infused with this power; we embody it, and it moves us to do our work. That is why we are never alone. Even in the midst of a noisy, crowded city, we can feel the presence of the natural world inside us, fresh, strong, and alive.

Preserving that which came before us to survive long after we are gone. Is not this the highest of callings?

—Kaleem

Instars are a subfaction within the Emerald Enclave and are typically tasked with a specific goal, whether preserving the last stand of rare trees, defending a breeding ground against encroachers, or assisting with the propagation of exotic wildlife.

The Emerald Enclave organization is decentralized, hardy, and reclusive; with the Instars being even more so. Most are tasked with a specific assignment; although a rare few are set out upon the world to find rare animals or plants to assist with a propagation program. Barbarians, clerics, druids, monks, rangers, and sorcerers of good or neutral alignments are commonly drawn to the Instars.

Additional Goal

To protect the natural world by conserving the rarest of creatures, plants, and their habitats.

Rank Perks

The ranks are largely consistent with those of the Emerald Enclave, with the following perk differences.

Rank 1

The faction insignia is replaced with an Emerald Enclave Butterfly Clasp.

Rank 3

The Supernatural Gifts perk is replaced with the Kaleidoscope ability.

Kaleidoscope. You learn to cast flock of familiars as a 2nd level spell, which summons either three butterflies (if the environment is bright light) or three moths (if the environment is dim light or dark). This can be cast once per short rest.

Rank 5

The Supernatural Gifts perk is replaced with the Butterfly Effect ability.

Butterfly Effect. An insignificant act performed by you at the end of a long rest magically alters the outcome of an event around you at some point in the future. As a reaction, after you or a creature you can see within 30 feet of you makes an attack roll, an ability check, or a saving throw, you can force the creature to reroll. You make this decision after you see whether the roll succeeds or fails. The target must use the result of the second roll. You can use this ability twice, and you regain any expended uses when you finish a long rest.