1 00:00:07,007 --> 00:00:12,680 It is indeed the very rare and unusual Ogier 2 00:00:12,763 --> 00:00:17,101 who will decide to leave their Stedding homes. 3 00:00:20,521 --> 00:00:25,526 In the years that followed the Breaking, during the Long Exile, 4 00:00:25,609 --> 00:00:29,822 we Ogier wandered lost in search of our Steddings. 5 00:00:32,908 --> 00:00:38,080 It was then that Ogier began to succumb to the Longing... 6 00:00:38,873 --> 00:00:41,250 to the point of death. 7 00:00:43,711 --> 00:00:47,465 Even after finding our Steddings once again, 8 00:00:47,548 --> 00:00:51,594 we Ogier continue to be bound to our homes. 9 00:01:00,269 --> 00:01:05,441 There is no lovelier place than an Ogier Grove. 10 00:01:08,027 --> 00:01:10,154 With its great trees, 11 00:01:10,237 --> 00:01:14,700 some stand towering since the Age of Legends. 12 00:01:17,912 --> 00:01:21,040 No Shadowspawn will enter. 13 00:01:21,123 --> 00:01:25,211 There is no way to channel the One Power. 14 00:01:25,586 --> 00:01:28,923 In the Stedding, there is rest. 15 00:01:31,425 --> 00:01:35,638 While humankind has long prized Ogier masonry, 16 00:01:35,721 --> 00:01:40,142 from Illian, Tear to the great Tar Valon, 17 00:01:40,226 --> 00:01:42,353 it is not the true thing. 18 00:01:44,146 --> 00:01:47,817 For us, it has always been the forest. 19 00:01:49,819 --> 00:01:52,863 You cannot bring stone to life. 20 00:02:05,876 --> 00:02:08,170 When we sing to the forest, 21 00:02:08,254 --> 00:02:12,967 it is much as if the earth itself sings to us. 22 00:02:15,845 --> 00:02:18,222 As a young Ogier, 23 00:02:18,305 --> 00:02:21,976 I had few prized possessions, 24 00:02:22,059 --> 00:02:25,479 of which, beyond my books, I have not many. 25 00:02:27,273 --> 00:02:32,570 And whilst there is nothing better than to be at home in the Steddings, 26 00:02:32,653 --> 00:02:36,782 surrounded by the comforts, which offer wisdom and peace, 27 00:02:37,032 --> 00:02:40,536 with our beloved groves in sight... 28 00:02:42,830 --> 00:02:46,500 true adventure calls. 29 00:02:46,584 --> 00:02:51,881 Adventure that cannot be found in a book. 30 00:02:51,964 --> 00:02:56,802 Adventure that may, in fact, risk the Longing.