Eryndra was the envoy of the Sylvan Sanctuary during the Gilded Expansion, and the reason the Sanctuary came out of it as the wronged party rather than the aggressor. She understood before anyone else in the forest that the Gilded Coven wanted the Sylvan to fight back.
The Sanctuary held no offices that translated into eastern titles, and she refused to invent one; asked for her position, she gave her name. At first glance she appeared elven, at second glance less so. Fine patterns like young bark ran along her neck and temples, slender branches curved back from her head bearing leaves out of season, and seven black birds followed her from rooftop to rooftop and carried her word across half the realm. She was calm, precise and very hard to move, and her whole demand of Lord Marcellin Auric was that his road be removed.
What she saw was the shape of the trap. If the Sanctuary buried the construction camps in the first weeks, Marcellin would carry the bodies east, the court would hear of Sylvan massacres, and the next people through the trees would march under Justicar banners. So she forbade killing and permitted almost everything short of it: broken machines, closed roads, crews taken and sent back unharmed with word to leave. It cost her the patience of half the Thornwake and the open contempt of its warden, Vaelor Thane, and it cost the forest dearly — ancient trees with names, sacred groves, and the young scout Lethari, the first Sylvan the expansion killed.
In the end she walked east to put the case before the Supreme Ruler herself, and made a court that knew how to count timber listen to the names of what had been lost. He ruled for the Sanctuary and ordered the machines out. She admitted afterwards that she had been right about the trap and wrong about the time: her restraint had given Marcellin a chance to build. She should have gone to the ruler sooner, she held — and would still have tried to keep it from becoming a war.
Long after the expansion she went back to Thalenor Root with Vaelor and laid her hand on what was left of it, and for a few seconds heard Lethari laughing.