Druids of The Circle of Stonesoul are animists who view inorganic nature as being as worthy of protection and respect as living creatures. They usually live their lives deep underground, or up amongst the highest mountains, in order to listen to the stones themselves.
Many druids of this circle view rocks and soils as living things, possessed of their own glacially paced lifecycles, and regularly communicate directly with the elemental spirits locked within geological formations. They can also spend long periods each day merging themselves with those same rock formations, experiencing the world from within.
This close affinity with the earth often leads to stonesoul druids forging an alliance with elemental spirits they have encountered, which then volunteer to accompany them and lend their assistance and wisdom to aid the druid in their protection of the local geology.
- from the publisher's blurb