Within the realm of the Elders, there are three trees of import. The first being the tree of Knighthood, where one either becomes an Elder Guard or Elder Knight. The second tree is that of parturiency, from where those mortal women rife with dormant magic are turned into surrogates for Seeds or Yungbloods. Upon the surrogate’s demise, new-borns will suckle sap from a branch. The final tree is that of ascension so rarely harvested from. The White Lady is the most recent receiver of this gift and now embodies the winter storm. —Excerpt from the “The Elder Wisdom.” Taught in the Sisterhood of the
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