Spoiler!
For a long time, longer even than the oldest of them could remember, the people of the forest were left alone, but for the occasional fleeting glimpse of one or two neighbouring Aquarians who did not, or perhaps could not, speak.
Then, suddenly, they came: the humans; the orcs; the ships. Oh, a seemingly unending number of ships, each of whose names - "Schattenpfeil", "Gischtbeschleuniger", and so on - sounded stranger than the last. Most of them sailed by. A few did not.
Why they could not be simply left in peace, to tend their children and their other charges, the trees, the people of the forest knew not, but word came from the Court of Brenin Legoharper: "Ymbaratowch."