Lady of the Forest

What the CreaTIon-Born See For all the contempt the Exalted held for the princes of chaos, the scars of the Balorian Crusade still mark Creation to this day. These wounds are most obvious in the ragged and embellished borders of all modern maps of Creation, where car- tographers exercise artistic fancy because attempts at serious navigation are no longer possible, but they can also be found pervading the scholarship of the Creation-born. Savants tend to think of the Fair Folk in their most famous incarnation—as numberless hordes storming in from the inchoate chaos beyond the world. The Fair Folk assaulted Creation in the hundreds of millions during the Balorian Crusade—at the moment when the Scarlet Empress breached the Imperial Manse, there were more raksha within Creation’s borders than living humans. Any cosmologist from a respectable institution of higher learning will attest that the Wyld is infinite in scope, or so nearly infinite that any lesser distinction is not worth drawing.