Emerald Spire

The Emerald Spire is the conservative wing of the worship of Erik.  Members of the Spire recall a 
golden age when the world was uncivilized and all men lived in harmony with nature.  Other gods 
gave their people grains and taught them farming.  When this knowledge came to the Rjurik, the
pollution of the golden age began.  Since then, the druids have struggled against the further corruption
of the Rjurik way of life by outside influences.

The Emerald Spire prefers to see chiefs of tribes advised and guided by druids.  Where Rjurik have
settled down, the Spire sees the jarls and eorls as the successors of the chiefs, and resists the power
of the kings.  The Spire has no use for any kind of guilds, for guilds engage in practices offensive to
the memory of the golden age.  The storage of wealth, the unequal distribution of wealth, the pusuit
of wealth above the care for nature, these all offend the Spire.  The druids teach that we should all 
take from the world only what we need to subsist.  As such there is no storage.  When we only have 
what we need, we have what out brothers and sisters have, and no one has more than any other. 
When nature comes before all other things, man is content to subsist, and let nature's glory reflect 
Erik's will unhindered by man.

Unlike the Oaken Grove, there are no clerics in the priesthood.  All are druids.  Their are skalds, 
but they do not rise to the highest offices of the temple, playing a more advisory role.