Bannoc OakenShield

When time came for Crustan to reawaken, he caused a druid conclave to be called at GreyDove Farm. The process took nearly two years. Perrin Forester, a follower whom Crustan had returned from the grave, was tasked with the collection of the druids unwilling or unable to answer the summons (including a dryad, whose tree Perrin was forced to uproot and cart around in a wagon full of dirt).

Once the druids were assembled (a process which took two years), they chose from among their followers the wisest and most powerful. Much to his surprise, the dwarf Bannoc OakenSheild, who considered himself a humble servant of Nature, ascended as the Avatar of the god himself. An even bigger surprise to the conclave was that, in the process, the newly awakened god stripped them of his divine spark, rendering the druids effectively powerless. Those he found worthy became clerics of the Oaken One, while those who were evil or abusive in their power were rendered helpless, and in some cases slain.

As a reward for his service, OakenSheild offered Perrin a place at his side as an angel, or offered him the opportunity to return to life as a full human. Perrin chose to regain his lost humanity, in order to be a proper father for his son, Landor Forester.

The new god then turned, whistled, and with a pack of spiritual hounds at his side, walked into the woods, leaving a very large group of very confused new clerics in his wake.