The Woodwoses

Deep in the heart of the brooding forest two savage forces are locked in primordial conflict, neither asking, nor expecting any quarter.  They are the remnant of a scattering of tribes that have withdrawn into the vastness of the dark woods.

Considered by most as mere myths and yet once they were a wide-ranging people.  Over hundreds of years, their numbers diminished through war and persecution, but under their war chief they roam beneath the forest canopy building wikiups from saplings in the forest clearings ever wary of danger.

Smaller than men, stout and full-bellied, and immensely strong for their size, they wield clubs, spears, bows, darts, and arrows, and ambush is their main strategy, where they lie in wait, hidden from view before launching their sudden and deadly attacks.

These figures are based on both the wild men of the woods, the woodwoses (also spelled wodewoses, woses, woodehouse, wudwas), mythical figures that appeared in the art and literature of medieval Europe, and the Puckle Men (also known as Púca or Pooka), mythical creatures from Celtic folklore.