Children of the Woods: Difference between revisions

{{image|Children of the Forest|png|A mystic rune recovered from the hills above Bretton Woods}}

}}The ''[[Synthæse]]'', or {{cotw}}, were a prehistoric proto-civilisation of woodland sprites and hippies; a kind of peaceable pre-derivative, banking people, largely unconcerned with material wealth but blessed with a preternatural gift for option pricing. In the time before the First Men they inhabited the dark forests of Bretton on the low hills of the Ferrous Mountains, wandering around semi-naked, eschewing all earthly rancour, regarding physical settlement of disputes as sinful and instead voluntarily ''exchanging'' their differences in a standardised, non-physical, “synthetic” terms<ref>The Greek word ''συντίθημι'', from which is the root of the name ''[[Synthæse]]'', means “to bring together in one place” (from ''συν-'' (“together”) + ''τίθημι'' (“set, place”)).</ref> across a centralised marketplace.