maybe I'll have [Halsin] be a Bard/Rogue who cons people into thinking he's a druid, the same way he cons people into thinking that he's a pure blooded elf, you might as well give him facial hair at this point, I can see through Halsin's lies, I know the truth.
It is the working theory shared by myself and a few others that Halsin is, in fact, not an elf at all. He's actually the former animal companion of a previous arch druid - an Awakened Bear. He has learned to use wild shape, which he uses to assume the form of an Elf - or at least his best ursine approximation of one. This is why he's such an incredibly
Shit druid, who can only do one wild shape (it's jsut him reverting to normal), when wildshaping is a novice druid skill, and why even then he both A) claims he cannot control himself properly when in the wild shape, despite it also being a novice acolyte level thing that you retain your full mental and emotional faculties when assuming an animal form, and B) why he apparently can lose control of himself and 'accidentally' shift into bear form when he gets over-excited. It explains why his capabilities as an arch-druid are extremely lacking and he doesn't have anything near the level of competency or spell-craft that an archdruid should have.
It all makes perfect sense really. Halsin is actually an awakened bear, using wildshape to pretend to be an elf.
