What can change the nature of a man?

[Pinecone]

Ok, please bear (no punt intended .. well .. not a lot at least) .. with me. There might be alot of problems with the language, but over all .. Please let me know what you think. Perhaps read it twice, so that lacking sign does not seem so lacking.

I am not an author by no means, and particularly not in english.

Pinecone

Poul Nielsen

[Pinecone]

Pinecone grew up in the shadows of Red Rock. While growing up he was always the one sent out to hunt. Not thinking much of it, he would hunt for many hours and always bring more than enough food with him back. Leaving whatever his family couldn’t eat outside, the wolves got a good feast too. However, it was a very respectless way of living.

One day a great bear appeared and followed Pinecone around for several days in a row. Always on the horisont it did not take him long to see it. And in all those days he would repeatedly turn his head to look for it, sometimes it would be there.. sometimes it wouldn’t. Pinecone decided to just wait it out. If the bear wanted something of him, it could come. So after sitting around a campfire for 4 long days, the bear one evening stepped into the light, growling.

Being afraid and somewhat starved he jumped on it, trying to wrestle it down to kill it. After a long fight Pinecone was the victor. The bear was laying defeated on the ground, and while picking his knife up from the rucksack next to the fire, he was getting ready to slay it. Then when he bent down next to it, he suddenly got very sad. This large and proud animal should not get slayed while laying in the grass like that. He make sure that it would survive and after leaving meat water for it, he left it to make camp in the nearby trees. While sitting with his back up against the tree, he saw the bear get up, eat and leave in the early hours of the day. That day Pinecone decided not to randomly slay and only to take what was needed. And to pay respect to the spirits of the surrounding world.

Trekking his way home sparse with meat for the family, he spend the next days sitting and looking over the hills towards Thunderbluff. After some days a messenger came with a note, telling him to seek out a tauren named Gart Mistrunner.

Pursuing his new way of life, Pinecone travelled to a great many places with many great friends. After many years of living in regret of his past actions he found peace when he found a spirit stronger than him. In the forests of Feralas he was left for dead wearing the bear. The next morning he retreated to a nearby cove, still wearing the bear. Over the next many months, he would not take the bear off, and he would slowly regain his strength.

As spring rolled around, Pinecone had forgotten himself. After been wearing the bear for so long, the bear had taken over. Vaguely remembering something else but being a bear, but never able to understand, he was not able to take of the bear. He does not know for how long he spent living like this.

But after many winters the insects came. They had a stench to them. And for a while they would stay in one place, but then slowly expanded their boundaries. And one day, while in fight, Pinecone the bear was injured in a fight against many insects and returned to a cove that always had had a strange pull in him. Laying there once again an old friend stepped in the cove. The smell was familiar and the bear would lick Pinecones wounds clean, then stay close by to help him recover. One day the bear spoke, telling a tale of a quest to travel to Feralas and seek out Pinecone to once again guide him. To tell him a story of an old life. While the bear spoke pictures came forward in Pinecone’s thoughts, and he remembered what he had forgotten in all these years.

Taking the bear off after so long was not easy. But after many attempts he succeeded and after thanking the bear spirit he went looking for the world that he would have to relive once again. The gift given by the Earthmother, a new life, has instilled him with great humbleness.

So what can change the life of a man? For Pinecone the Tauren it was regret. And sworn to never forget past actions, he has been given a second chance to prove himself. The mix of his past aggressions and his spirituality is a good combination for proving to the Earthmother that she made the right choice.

[Kailand]

Gud Story Lat.

[Rhoach]

Bearwear for all!

[Bula]

Me know whut u am had go through brudder. Me see many put on ogre suite to be trong an mighty and gud luken like dah ogre. But putting on ogre suit no make u ogre. Underneath dem till am tupid and wimpy and no trong like duh ogre am. So u put on bear suit an it no change u brudder u am till gud brudder to duh ogre. It am gud hab u back.

BULA

Ogre Warlord