Editing Setting:Mosaic/Nations, Cultures and Locations (section)

=== The Others ===
The Things of the Forests are mischievous and uncaring towards humans. Their motivations are alien and impossible to discern, and few proper facts are known of them other than that they have some sort of sense of territory or independence. They are shapeshifters, and with a thought they can become as one with the leaves, rocks, water and moss that surrounds them, leading to many conflicting accounts from those that have survived their games. In the Yaropan nations, the closeness to the forests is deeply felt in the manipulations of the Others - some say that the fractioned nature of those nations is due to the games the Things play, and that a whisper from the woods can drive brother against brother.