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The Sentinel
A house-sized hound of living wood that guards the trials of the forest. Some who meet him call him Woody.
The Sentinel is the forest’s keeper — a hound the size of a house, grown of living wood, patient as the trees themselves. He does not hunt those who enter; he guides them, walking the lost through a place that would otherwise swallow them whole. To those who earn a little warmth from him, he is simply Woody.
For all his size and strangeness, there is nothing cruel in him. He is bound to the forest and cannot leave it, a guardian set to a single purpose: to see that those who come seeking the trials face them as they are meant to be faced — and that what waits beyond is met by the right kind of person, in the right kind of way.