Gakdroc Orebrow

Gakdroc Orebrow was a dwarven follower of the Green-Moon Goddess. For almost 300 years he cared for Gakdroc Grove, keeping it alive and thriving. Gakdroc Grove is one of the last few druidic groves in the Withering Wood.

When a young firbolg showed up hoping to learn his ways and protect the land, he gladly took her under his wing, and thus, Daphne Dilly became the next in line to watch over Gakdroc Grove.

Gakdroc
Gakdroc became a druid of the Green Lady as a young dwarf. He says that he had been eating mushrooms when the trees spoke to him. He would have dismissed this as merely a bad mushroom, if it weren't for what they said. They spoke of a past where gods walked the earth, and gave him directions to a great tree in the north-east. On a gut feeling, he followed the instructions and found the Grove, and an ancient, dying tree, which he nursed back to health.

The Grove
Over time, the tree began to speak with him. It mostly whispered in druidic, stories and poems and rhymes, that he eventually learned to parse. The tree had quite a bit of knowledge, and spoke of its Green Lady. Gakdroc soon learned to make candles enchanted and infused with hearth-magic that helped restore the tree.

The tree proved to be a powerful entity in its own right, ancient, and directly linked to the Feywild by its roots. Gakdroc compiled what information he could, but his details were far from complete. He worked his entire life, learning the Green-Moon ritual of the Chalice and becoming fluent in druidic.

The Arrival of Daphne Dilly
Daphne the firbolg had fled her father, Richard "Dick" Dilly's growing love of industry and disdain for nature. When she arrived in Gakdroc Grove, the tree told Gakdroc that she would become one of the greatest druids to walk the wood since the Time of Legend. Unfortunately, Gakdroc's life was coming to an end. He passed on everything he could in the time he had, but never got the chance to fully explain the grove and the Green-Moon goddess to her.

Daphne is now linked to the tree, even more closely than Gakdroc was, though she did not rename the grove as most druids did when they took charge of it.