Location:Virescent Expanse → Northern Borderlands → Approaching Seven Peaks
Date/Time:TC1854.06.20 – TC1854.07.01
The alliance was formalized in the way the Confederacy formalized everything: through the root network, in the presence of the ancient tree, with the particular directness of people who'd spent centuries avoiding bureaucracy and saw no reason to start now.
The tribal council reconvened at the Basin three days after the golden rain stopped falling. The clearing was different — the accelerated growth from Raven's tribulation had transformed the neutral depression into something that resembled a garden designed by a mind that thought in ecosystems rather than flower beds. Canopy overhead where bare sky had been. Root networks threading through soil that had been inert for centuries. The ancient war-form's body dissolved into the earth, its biological material recycled by a forest that wasted nothing.
