This page contains samples of some of the elements of the future ARCHDRUID CHRONICLES website. The videos are tutorials on the training that Tanner goes through, giving readers the opportunity to try many of the skills for themselves. I have provided two example videos (they would be redone, but this gives a feeling for video content).

Sample Videos

Crafting the Upside-down Fire

Opening Your “Tracking Vision”

Here is a full list of the videos I’d produce to show the things Tanner learns in TIME OF THE TRACKER:

Crafting the Upside-down Fire (shown above)

Opening Your “Tracking Vision” (shown above)

Harvesting and Cooking Hopniss

Forest Meditation

Making Fire With the Hand Drill

Yielding Martial Arts Exercise

Woods Parkour 101

I also envision giving readers a sense of involvement by creating a page where they can discover their druid “Aspect”. A bit like a horoscope, you can find the traits that match you best.

Tracker

Your skills are tracking in all its various forms. In its more subtle aspects, it even includes reading others’ emotions or thoughts.

Your personality is observant. You are a good listener, and you love challenges and puzzles. People are often amazed by how much you notice. Some people might call you “Sherlock Holmes”.

Your challenge is becoming too analytical. Often the answer is available to your intuitive wisdom, but it can be easy for you to get lost in over-thinking a problem.

Your fetch is the mountain lion, who is silent, observant, and sharp in all its senses.

Warrior

Your skills are fighting, peacemaking, calming people down, and transforming conflict.

Your personality is aggressive, competitive, assertive, and protective. You’ll do anything to protect the innocent or those in danger. You aren’t ruled by your fears.

Your challenge is cultivating enough inner peace that you are not dominated by your aggressive tendencies. Those who are controlled by their aggressiveness are only puppets of their emotions.

Your fetch is the wolverine. It doesn’t need a huge, powerful form to be the best fighter in the woods. Often other animals will back down just because of a wolverine’s confidence.

Bard

Your skills are music, storytelling, meditation, listening, and keeping old wisdom alive.

Your personality is social and gregarious, but you are also fine with solitude. You are wise, engaging, and charismatic.

Your challenge is not to get lost in fantasies and dramas, and to avoid the tendency to be over-dramatic. Tell and hear stories, but don’t get lost in them.

Your fetch is the wolf, among the wisest of animals.

Herbalist

Your skills are as a healer, medic, or herbalist. Mending people’s wounds or illnesses comes naturally to you. You’d make a good doctor, nurse, energy healer, or herbalist. You also have a deep affinity for plants and trees.

Your personality is receptive, compassionate, and caring. If you see someone in need, you’ll go out of your way to help them.

Your challenge is being too self-sacrificial. Remember that although it is beautiful to give to others, you can do that best when you are in a place of personal nourishment and strength.

Your fetch, which represents the highest incarnation of your aspect, is the deer. Aware and alert, swift and light of spirit, the deer has an innate knowledge of plants, the ability to be gentle and nourishing, and enough awareness to know when it is in danger and needs to look out for itself.

Dreamwalker

Your skills are lucid dreaming, the ability to enter others’ dreams or influence their dreams, and to remember and understand your own dreams. Often your dreams will give you visions of the future or past.

Your personality is mysterious, elusive, intuitive, and sensitive. You love the night, and are aware that there are more subtle worlds than the one most of us experience.

Your challenge is not to get lost in your own mystery and darkness.

Your fetch is the owl, who sees clearly in the darkest night, and knows the night world better than any other creature.

Shapeshifter

Your skills are shifting your shape, or being able to appear in various forms via changing your personality, clothing, hairstyle, etc. You are able to help others break free of habitual patterns to find new and different layers of themselves.

Your personality is shifting, as you are able to alter your personality to fit various situations. As such, you are usually able to get along with almost anyone.

Your challenge is that you can lack integrity. You must find your inner core that never changes so that you have a stable foundation from which to transform yourself.

Your fetch is the silver fox, mystical and elusive, who is truly a red fox that has taken on a new pelt.

Elemental

Your skills are communing with and harnessing the power of one or more of the four elements. You may find that you can raise or still the wind, touch fire without getting burned, or feel very comfortable in the water. People with earth elemental powers are often very strong physically.

Your personality if you are a fire elemental is active, charismatic, passionate, and quick-tempered. If water, relaxed, adaptable, and intuitive, able to bend to situations. If air, thoughtful, optimistic, and idealistic. If earth, solid, dependable, and infinitely patient.

Your challenge if fire is controlling your temper; if water, learning to stand your ground; if earth, being stubborn; and if air, being fearful or flighty.

Your fetch is the loon, who lives in all four elements, traveling great distances through the air, nesting on earth, hunting in the water, and with fire captured in its eyes.

Communor

Your skills are your abilities to communicate with animals, plants, and other natural entities, including stone. You feel drawn to these non-human entities and seem to understand their language, either intuitively, or through their vocalizations or movements. Communors are often “animal people”, such as horse or dog whisperers.

Your personality is talkative, open-minded, receptive. You’re an excellent communicator.

Your challenge is relating to other human beings.

Your fetch is the bear, who spends months resting quiet and still in its den, sensing the essence of everything around it.

Portal Maker

Your skills are opening doors between worlds, or helping people to see things “outside the box”. You question your culture and realize that we are all world-creators in every moment.

Your personality is wise and reflective. You can see every situation from many perspectives without getting locked into any single one.

Your challenge is that sometimes you have trouble caring about people’s “small” issues, concerning yourself with world movements without recognizing that even the smallest movement is tied to the largest.

Your fetch is the raven, who flies between the world and sees the truth of each one.