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The {{cotw}} are the prehistoric ancestors of what become known as “retail investors”. They are handsome creatures: delicate but fundamentally stupid, supine, herd-like and oddly elderly — many having lived since well before recorded time began.  

They are a sort of hybrid, having a beauty and longevity of elves but the familial parochiality, and love of home, hearth of hobbits. Though naturally wild they thrive in captivity, are easily domesticated into peaceable communities that will live statically and passively for years, yielding an odd sort of emergent, but nonetheless tangible, benefit — known in Lanchmani as “''rehnt''” — to those who take care of them.  

They remain stupid and delicate, however, and are easily crushed in the gears of progress if not properly protected. And, if riled, their herding instinct can take over allowed to run they can display seemingly magical powers of intuition, panic and destruction (these powers known as the “emergentiæ”). These powers are not present in the hands of a single wood-child, but amongst groups of them, when concerted and concentrated it can have devastating and unexpected consequences, even in the face of powerful military forces. Thus, the {{cotw}} inspire a peculiar mixture of pity, reverence, fear and respect.