Morauku

"Darkness."

A Shadow In The Forest
Deep within Athel Loren there is a glade that few dare travel to,  even the forest spirits are reluctant to go near. Within this glade resides a huge black willow. Beneath the boughs of this unatural willow a forest spirit makes home. Among the denziens of Athel Loren  it is known as Morauku, meaning the Shadow Daemon. True to his name the creature is a being of shadow and more. Whilst many forest spirits will inhabit dead boughs when under duress or in great need attach them selves to the flesh of a living tree Morauku does something far different and sinister.

Morauku takes possesion of a living elf as his host body. Stipping the elf of any control his body and pushing the elfs mind into a dark receess of the shared mind. The host is left in a world of shadow, only sometimes aware of events around him but never in control. Whats more is that the death of the host does not seem to kill the spirit known as Morauku. His body has been observed to die in battle with forest intuders many a time. Soon enought though another dark shape will be seen aming the armies of Athel Loren, wearing shadow as a cloak as none but Morauku does, flitting from one to the other as though the space inbetween was irrelivent. Though the nature of Morauku may be a mystery one thing is certain, those that defile his forest will feed the black willow.