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Wild Hunt.

Ardenweald's military organization, and also the army formed from the most battle-hardened Eternal Spirits selected by the Winter Queen.

It was difficult to say when the Wild Hunt had been established, but considering that the Wild Hunt had not originally existed as an "added design" in the Shadowlands' "destiny," Ardenweald, a land of life within the realm of death, had not needed to prepare for war in the beginning.

Thus, conservatively speaking, the Wild Hunt had likely truly been established after the previous Arbiter, Zovaal, launched his rebellion.

Perhaps it was that war, which had changed the Shadowlands, that made the Winter Queen realize that the order upon which Ardenweald existed also needed the protection of blades. Thus, the prototype of today's Wild Hunt came into being.

As Ardenweald's highest-ranking military organization, the Wild Hunt naturally recruited only the most battle-hardened nature spirits from the material world.

The current leader of the Wild Hunt, Lord Herne, was a fierce Vokai. It was said that this Forest Lord had once been one of the Wild Gods. Like Sovereign Alyssia, he had lost his world in the war against demons. Unable to return to the material world, and unwilling to do so, he accepted the Winter Queen's summons.

This half-man, half-stag warrior was the Winter Queen's hand of war, and his combat prowess was truly astonishing.

The Vokai's build also differed somewhat from that of the similarly half-man, half-stag "Grove Wardens." They were smaller, but as the Winter Queen's war-blooded kin, their combat strength and agility far surpassed those of the material world's Grove Wardens.

There was also an interesting little fact about the Vokai.

Although these fellows excelled at cavalry tactics and possessed astonishing close-combat skills, if a Vokai was driven into a corner or surrounded, it would employ