Editing Teylin, the Ash Knight (section)

==Mimethir, the Heart's Hoard==
Teylin nearly fell in the Autumn War, when Fomorians marched en mass on Mithrendain.  He knew that if he was to survive more such battles, he would need better armor.  So he traveled into Sighwood, the Nightmare Forest, in search of the hag, Greentooth, and her boon.  Greentooth agreed to make Teylin's armor, but demanded three years' service in return.  The bargain was struck, and the hag began her work.

For the first year, Greentooth changed Teylin into a nightengale.  Each day, he carried twigs from a high oak branch to build his nest, but the hag would snatch one away and the nest would crumble by dusk, allowing him no rest. 

For the second year, Greentooth changed Teylin into a salmon.  Each day, he rose to the water's surface to search for bugs to eat, but Greentooth cast brambles into the pool and the bugs would flit away, allowing him no food. 

For the third year, Greentooth changed Teylin into a stag.  Each day, he foraged for food in the woods, and he found it, and he lived in peace.  But when the year was done, the hag leaped at him with a bone-edged knife and skinned him down.

When Greentooth was done, she had a cut stag-hide in her hand and Teylin lay, stunned and an elf again, on the forest floor.  The hag then split the twigs she'd stolen into thread and tanned the stag hide in the salmon pool, and from this created Teylin's armor.  (Elven Battle Hide Armor +2)