1. The elk can be interacted with without it attacking - as long as you bring it food offerings! It's aggressive and territorial within the spaces it's marked with bio-luminescent secretions, but a cautious and deferential approach with edible gifts will calm it down to just wariness. Fill its stomach so it doesn't want to eat you.
As far as the lights go, there seem to be various pockets in the forest where they're more common than in other places - but their origin still remains pretty mysterious, as following that trail leads much deeper into the Wilde than any of the Wilders will recommend. One thing he can determine though, is that they aren't magical in nature, despite how they appear.
2. 2-3 would be the max he could keep safely, as they aren't pack animals/plants despite this group being pushed together by the Cwyld invading their usual territories and forcing them toward civilization. Any more than that and they just tend to fight and tear each other's leaves out. It's not pretty.
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As far as the lights go, there seem to be various pockets in the forest where they're more common than in other places - but their origin still remains pretty mysterious, as following that trail leads much deeper into the Wilde than any of the Wilders will recommend. One thing he can determine though, is that they aren't magical in nature, despite how they appear.
2. 2-3 would be the max he could keep safely, as they aren't pack animals/plants despite this group being pushed together by the Cwyld invading their usual territories and forcing them toward civilization. Any more than that and they just tend to fight and tear each other's leaves out. It's not pretty.