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	titioners may now be found with any skill at all. Such are
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	==On Lifesculpting==		==On Lifesculpting==
	by Moonshadow Palantiri		by [[Moonshadow]] Palantiri

	As is well known among the learned, many Mountain and Forest		As is well known among the learned, many Mountain and Forest
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	they shaped.		they shaped.

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==On Lifesculpting==
by Moonshadow Palantiri

As is well known among the learned, many Mountain and Forest
Elves possess to a greater or lesser degree the talent called
Lifesculpting.

Little practiced now in these adventure-seeking times, it has
become a quaint relic of a quieter and more peaceful time when
folk had the time and energy for such pursuits.

As practiced, an Elf skilled in this power would spend many hours
and even days and weeks meditating before a tree or vine or shrub
that he or she wished to shape.

In the course of growth, the living plant absorbed the mental
force and imagery and, by its own internal processes, began to
alter its growth into the shape desired.

Naturally, a large growth like a tree could take years if not
decades to change from a natural form into something artistically
pleasing. But Elves, having such time at their hands, seemed to
have once delighted in such work.

The finest artisans would devote what other might consider a
lifetime to shaping one large elaborate tree into a graceful
series of curves and loops satisfying their sense of esthetics.

The more practically minded could form platforms and even large
protrusions that could be hollowed out for dwelling places within
the living tree.

A very rare few, it was said, could work this art upon the living
rock as well as plants, though this must assuredly have been
extremely rare.

Few rock formations lent themselves to such shaping and it took
incredible force of mind and will to even begin such a task.

The story is told that much of the ceremonial arch at Asemath
Academy may have been formed by this art but the records of a
century past are now vague and scattered.

In any event, the skill has fallen into disuse and few prac-
titioners may now be found with any skill at all. Such are
the times, when raw survival must come before aesthetics and
when the search for treasure and fame eclipses the search for
harmony and cogitation.

I will close this essay with one last tale, told of an entire
village of highly-skilled Elves, who set out to form a
masterpiece of their art. They spent half a hundred years
working their will upon a forest and the surrounding hills. In
time, they wrought a place of such exquisite beauty and artful
construction that many travelled for years to glimpse it.

In time, word became so widespread that the peace and tranquility
of their village was threatened. So, in one last, ultimate
expression, they changed the very hills to hide the path to their
valley.

None could find a way thither and in time, the memory of the
place faded and is now no longer even known to be true.

The only clue to the location of this place is that it lies
high in a mountainous but forested region where an incredible
series of waterfalls marks the outflow of the river that ran in
the valley. The falls, it is said, were the first efforts of the
masters, the opening notes as it were, in the living symphony
they shaped.
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