Druid Circles

Druids gain their powers from the natural forces of the world, and likewise tend to and support those forces whenever possible. Druids organize themselves into conclaves or Circles, dedicated to a specific aspect of nature.

Druids of the Circle of the Claw have an extremely strong tie to the animals that dwell in the wilds. They excel at utilizing that connection to better shapeshift into their various forms. They feel a natural protectiveness of forest creatures, though they understand that predator and prey are both necessary for a balanced ecosystem.

• Disrupting or destroying natural habitats for no purpose is anathema to you.
  
• Showing blatant disregard or disrespect for nature is anathema to you.
  
• Cities are a blight upon the natural beauty of the wilds. Those who spread civilization and impose its blight upon nature are anathema to you.
  

Circle of the Claw druids gain scaling on their shapeshift forms.

Nature holds a place for diseases and certain “filth”, as the civilised races would call them. Druids that concern themselves specifically with this hard but necessary truth are known as the Circle of Pestilence. They devote themselves to ensuring that diseases continue to spread and perform their invaluable function in the world.

• Disease and pestilence are a natural part of the cycle of life and death. Healing or curing any disease or tolerating anyone else curing one is anathema to you.
  
• Insects make up a vital part of nature. From pesky mosquitos to rodents and spiders, they serve in the natural food chain as much as any other living thing. Killing rodents or insects indiscriminately, or tolerating someone else to do so, is anathema to you.
  
• Disease is the great leveller, laying low even the most powerful of the world. It controls populations and sweeps away the old to allow for the new. Ignorance and the lack of understanding of this most basic tenet is anathema to you.
  

Touch of Sickening, Pox Postules, Necrophage, Contagion, Greater Contagion, Epidemic, Plague Storm, Creeping Doom, Swarm Skin

The world is suffused with such vitality that the unrelenting knowledge that all things grow, live, die and will become the fertiliser for that circle of renewal to continue. This is how it is. This is how it was and this is how it shall always be.

• Culling of any plant life save that which is absolutely necessary for survival is anathema and all means should be taken to quash such wanton destruction.
  
• Poisoning the soil with unnatural substances or influences is anathema to you.
  
• The unrelenting encroachment of civilization upon the natural lands of the world is anathema to you.
  

Circle of Wild Growth druids gain +1 caster level and +1 spell DC when not in a city terrain type.

Fire is one of nature's way of culling unhealthy overgrowth or overpopulation. Natural fire can be used to also defend the denizens of nature from those who would exploit the wilds. Druids of the Circle of Wildfire carefully control the flames to achieve their goals while avoiding unnecesary destruction.

• Interrupting the natural course of events by halting or otherwise manipulating natural fire is anathema to you.
  
• Using fire for wanton destruction is anathema to you.
  
• Using fire to aid in the encroachment of civilization into the wilds is anathema to you.
  

Burning Hands, Scorcher, Fireball, Fire Shield, Wall of Fire, Fire Snake, Incendiary Cloud, Delayed Fireball, Fiery Body

The cycle of the seasons is essential in pushing forward the cycle of life and death. Everything that grows and flourishes must eventually die, but the depths of winter allow new life to begin anew in the following seasons. The melting snows nourish the soil for the new harvest. Animals hibernate, resting and growing. Winter is a grand reset every year that brings new possibilities.

• Winter marks the time to rejuvenate, rest and renewal. Many animals take shelter for protection against the cold months to aid in returning life once again in the coming spring. Destruction of natural habitations and tolerating wasteful hunts in winter is anathema to you.
  
• Winter brings balance back to the world, where spring brings the blossoms, Winter lays the foundation to allow for spring to blossom again. Interrupting the natural process of the seasons is anathema to you.
  
• Winter is the season of freezing death, murder and death is necessary to nourish new life, from the maggots that consume a corpse to old remains being returned to the earth. Nourishing this process is important and disallowing for the process to continue, or for too much life to flourish, is anathema to you.
  

Chill Touch, Serac, Frost Orb, Ice Shield, Ice Storm, Frozen Breath, Hypothermia, Ice Body, Polar Midnight