Name of the pretender: Tarion of the Forest
Powers: Power over nature which includes manipulation over trees and plant life his forest is entirely manipulated by his thoughts and the seasons. When angered the forest might seem thick and heavy no trails are visible and it would be thick with briers, when calm it might seem peaceful and inviting flowers and meadows and beauty run rampant. He also has the ability to speak with animals to run with animals and even shape shift into a stag or an man or a mixture of both.
Appearance:[url=http://www.deviantart.com/art/white-stag-430159852] Tarion as a beast [/url] [url=http://www.deviantart.com/art/Commission-The-Druid-365470411] As a human [/url] In both forms his eyes are golden like a beasts when angered they seem to have a predatory look to them.
Rituals: Tree singing as a way to worship him as well as how his followers get the lumber they need in order to build tools and houses, hunting is a form of worship to him by his tribal members, some tribal's tattoo themselves with all sorts of markings and drawings with the ink of a certain plant only found his woods this ink is blood red and is known to give them a fearsome appearance. The plant is know as Tarion's blood 

Name of the Nation: No name yet. but the forest goes by the name of Darkash Forest, all tribes have different names and they have only ever unified once and Tarion has never named them because he sees it as pointless. 
History: Tarion was found alone in the woods by a huntress who lived off the land there. Almost immediately she noticed the child had an odd trait which was power over nature and when ever the babe squealed and was unhappy a small part the woods around him reflected this, when ever the babe cooed and smiled flowers and beauty would spring up around him. The huntress tried to take him into town but as she left the forest with the child the forest started to wither and die, the child also started to die. So she brought him back to the forest and the forest came to life and so did the child. So as long as this forest lived so did the child.

 As the child grew so did his control over the forest soon he was able to spread his whole will over the forest. Soon he became known in the forest by animal and people alike and they started worshiping even his foster mother started worshiping him. He didn't like it one bit, but soon enough people were coming in to create whole community's just so they could be near this child which meant they were cutting down his trees so he taught some among them a gift of singing to trees. Singing to the trees would give them what they needed the tree would just give them the wood they needed when sung to lose it's branches it would lose it's branches. The people passed this down for generations and soon even his foster mother died leaving Tarion to flee further into the woods to isolate himself from the new tribal community's popping up to try to gain his favor.

They fought and lied two things that Tarion didn't want and didn't like, so he didn't intervene the only time he physically intervened was when a much larger nation started chopping down his woods. That was the only time that the tribes united. Together they pushed the threat out of their woods and saved their forest. He hated his gift he hated being connected to these woods and most of all he hated his followers he had tried to send them away but the remained and eventually he left them alone where they still stay worshiping him as a god and vying for his favor.

Military:Depends on the tribe some are entirely war like while others go about their existence doing other things. But one thing is agreed and axes are not to be used as tools or as weapons any anyone caught wielding an ax in the wood is considered an enemy
People: currently there are only about 45,000 people living off the land in the forest spread out among all of the tribes, but anyone or anything is welcome as long as they prove themselves to the tribe or are born in one. 

Important persons: [url=http://www.deviantart.com/art/Druid-209062296] Seer Redfang [/url] Seer Redfang is the only person that Tarion has spoken directly too since beating back the nation that invaded, he seems to have a small control over bears. He is also the chieftain of the Black paw tribe

[url=http://www.deviantart.com/art/Ranger-178698977] Allara Lapis [/url] It's believed that this chieftain transforms into a she wolf by the light of the moon, her tribe are the greatest hunters and every hunter in the tribe has some sort of affinity with wolves, strangely enough they have no ability to speak to animals but wolves still flock to her tribes in droves and strangers who visit her tribe for trade are often surprised they coexist among wolves. She is probably also one of the most zealous speakers for Tarion.