Doomguard Druid?

I hate it.

I hate how the green sucks on my living soul. Wanting, craving and always demanding. Its dependency on me is like a tit to a newborn, like a slave to its master, like a beggar to those who pass.

Have you never noticed how weak it really is? Where is the strength of this twig I'm breaking? Where is the strength of the trees that dies of age? Nature is nothing more than life in death. I hate it, but it never leaves me alone!

A drug-addicted druid! Gotta love that.

Maybe a little irrelevant to the topic... :roll:

Modify the class, then, until it works. Or maybe some combination of a druidic prestige class (like Shifter) and a more destructive base class (like Warlock or Wilder), or the other way around - something like a druid/cancer mage or druid/blackguard.

Entropy isn't in balance in nature, it isn't in balance anywhere. If you base the doomguard philosophy on any sort of real world thermodynamics, entropy always wins, especially in biological systems, which are notorioiusly inefficent (the most abundant enzyme on earth is rubisco, among the least efficent of all enzymes). Nature is constantly breaking down towards more and more entropy, and it requires tremendous infusions of outside energy of which it can only use a small part to keep functioning.

Perhaps a doomguard druid realizes that without the constant and unending support of the sun nature collapses into entropy and eventually ceases, and therefore believes nature is meant to crumble.

There's no reason why a doomguard ruid needs different powers, since biological systems are less efficent in many ways than inorganic ones, using druidic powers only increases entropy by allowing life to use up more energy and create more heat loss. Taking the long view, a living being loses far more energy as heat than a dead body (in which a great percentage of the energy in the tissue is reclaimed by decomposers) so even healing becomes a service of entropy, by infusing a bit of energy now so more can be lost later.

what I see is a druid/Blighter......Blighters are perfect examples of Sinker druids. Death and decay, both subtle and agressive. Able to defile and poison plots of land at will....sounds sinker to me.

There are a number of Doomguard stereotypes one can follow with a druid.

The exploiter: Nature is a means to an end. You figure out how it works and you bend it to your will. Bears rampaging through towns are destructive. Wild boars destroying orphanages - entropic. Civilization is a build up of Order, a reversal of entropy. As civilization collapses the mortal races collapse. The worlds slip further and further into entropy as the wildernesses swallow up urban centers.

The preserver: A Sinker only in the broadest sense of the term, the Preserver sees the multiverse sinking into destruction and it quails his heart. He knows he can't stop it, such would be completely futile. But if he can slow it, if he can buy the universe more time, think of what beauty can become? Every minute, every second that the multiverse lives on is beautiful - to hasten its destruction is tantamount to killing someone before thier time. The universe will die, but me and my animal buddies will not go down with a fight!

Maybe a Sinker druid is just trying to understand and observe decay in a forest - neither accelerating nor slowing the destruction, but watching as animal populations explode then die from lack of resources, or observing the ravages of forest fires. Beyond that, the druid would be concerned with protecting the experiment, and letting the forest run its own race to eventual ruin.

Or, maybe, observing the slow decay and destruction of trees to aqpply those findings to the eventual downfall of Yggdrasil.

What/who are the Mediators? I don't recall reading any mention of them.

Well why would a Doom Guard druid need to not use his spells that cause things to grow. I mean with the balance and neutrality type ideas that druids have perhaps he/she would only use these powers when "the growth a new plant/animal would set entropy back on track". I mean yes planting a tree and helping it grow might be considered fighting back but also a tree as it grows starts to tear at the buildings foundation next to it. Uprooting the streets of cities after a few decades. (Look at Mayan ruins if you question how fast nature care reclaim, hide and start to destroy).

Perhaps he sees urbanization as the first step in entropy nature takes backs the cities, the huts, and roads are destined to be destroyed before nature itself since they are fleeting mortal creations. Obviously this line of thinking would likely serve to put him even further on the edge of the Doom Guard (well maybe not some of the more intellectual types) but I am sure he won't have many namers running around talking about how his/her take is a great way to look at it...

Where are they mentioned?