Lux Esoterica (Nifiluz)

Green Spain has walked through this chronicle in force — the storm-master in his clouds, the one-eyed ogre in his crags, the golden-combed ladies at their rivers — and its deep forests keep the figure who governs all that country's remaining wildwood: the Busgosu, whom some valleys call the Musgosu, the mossy one . The two names are two aspects of one lord. The Busgosu of the classic Asturian tellings is a faun out of the oldest European stock: man-shaped above, goat-legged below, with curling horns on a matted head, quick-eyed, quick-footed, smelling of leaf-mould and rut; the Musgosu of the quieter valleys is the same being seen in his gentler light — a tall figure clothed entirely in moss : moss for hair, moss for cloak, lichen for beard, so grown into his forest that a traveler could pass within arm's reach of him standing still and see only a mossy stump, until the stump turned its head. Under either name his office is the same, and every parish that borders the great woo...