Lore:Druid King's Regalia

Druid King's Regalia

The Druid King's Regalia consists of a crown, a gauntlet, and a staff which were created by the god Y'ffre. These gifts were worn with wisdom and mercy by the line of Druid Kings,^[1] and serve to legitimize one's ascension to the Ivy Throne.^[2] After the death of Kasorayn, the last Druid King, they remained dormant within sacred seeds entrusted to the three main Druidic Circles.^[3] The regalia supposedly has no innate power of their own,^[4] but after a pretender stole the Druid King's Regalia, they almost brought upon the Green Scourge which would have called forth the wrath of nature upon Tamriel but they were slain before being able to do so.^[5]

The Regalia serves to crown one as Druid King, said to be the only one who can safely invoke and command even the greater spirits of nature.^[6]^[5] A wielder of the Regalia can also command a nature spirit to merge with them in order to gain its power. ^[7] The Regalia can also be used to allow a nature spirit to bind itself to an area and take on a new role, replacing that region's prior spirit, such an event occurred when the spirit Frii became the new spirit of Mount Firesong in order to prevent the volcano from erupting and destroying the Systres archipelago. Though the original Regalia was lost in the volcano and destroyed by the magma, the nature spirit Frii had foreseen that would occur and granted the Vestige new sacred seeds to plant. It is said that from the tree grown from those sacred seeds, a new Regalia would one day grow.^[8]^[5]

The Psijic Order had the means to scry secrets from fate lines beyond the bounds of Tamriel. Among these secrets were tomes that spoke of alternative timelines and realities, where certain key events transpired differently.^[9] In one of these alternate realities, the pretender succeeded in defeating his enemies and conquering Tamriel and the Green Scourge came to pass. Tamriel was engulfed in firestorms targeting "false kings and queens" and displacing populations and the days became dark, cold and filled with turmoil as volcanoes continued to "belch forth their retribution" covering the skies.^[10]