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Holding his hand high, a redguard whistles to the bear Wardens are also concerned with the delicate
that stalks in front of him, calling the bear back to his ecological balance that sustains plant and animal life,
side. Whispering instruction in Yoku, he points to the and the need for civilized folk to live in harmony with
river troll he's been tracking and sends the bear to nature, not in opposition to it. While they are
distract the troll while he readies a powerful spell. guardians and protectors, they appreciate that
Swinging a mace formed by pure ice, an argonian conservation requires both the preservation of natures
charges into a mass of skeletal soldiers, sundering the gifts, as well as the culling of its own kind to keep the
unnatural magic that gives the foul creatures the balance intact. Sometimes protection includes
mocking semblance of life. stepping in when nature seeks to consume itself.
Crouching out of sight on a high tree branch in the Unlike the bosmer followers of Y'ffre, wardens are
form of a leopard, a bosmer peers out of the jungle at willing to make full use of nature's bounty in order to
the strange construction of the daedric temple, survive.
keeping an eye on cultists' activities. Wardens are warriors on Nature's behalf and exist
Whether calling on the elemental forces of nature or throughout Tamriel. They hate that which is unnatural,
emulating the creatures of the animal world, wardens including fiends (such as the daedra) and the undead
are an embodiment of nature's resilience, cunning, and (such as zombies and vampires). Wardens are often
fury. They claim no mastery over nature. Instead, they found guarding sacred sites or watching over regions
see themselves as extensions of nature's indomitable of unspoiled nature. But when a significant danger
will. arises, threatening nature's balance or the lands they
protect, wardens take on a more active role in
GUARDIANS OF NATURE combating the threat, as adventurers.