okkkkkk the details about wyrneck (woodwose's predecessor and previous leader of the fang clan) from nasu's blog are heartbreaking and also make me even more insane about morgan and woodwose:
1000 B.C. A Returned A-Ray is born among the Fang Clan - Wryneck the Brave, inheritor of organs of the waste heat of the planet. 800 B.C. Tonelico fights and triumphs over Waste Heat Lord Wryneck. They become fast friends. Henceforth, Wryneck does not accompany Tonelico on her adventures due to his position as the Chief of the Fang Clan, but does everything he can to help her from behind the scenes. He rationalizes it as, "I can never accept the mission of the Fairy of Paradise, but I'm fond of Tonelico's strength." (To Ector, his feelings are as clear as day) 400 B.C. The fabled Arbitration, one day before the coronation at Londinium. In attendance are Uther, Tonelico, Ector, Grimm, and the First Fairy Knight. Wryneck can't stand Uther (for obvious reasons) and refuses to attend the coronation. Instead, he goes off to hunt Mors on the western coast. "But… even if I send a delegate, it would be poor form if the Fang Lord didn't show up, wouldn't it…" On the dawn of Coronation Day, Wryneck reluctantly makes up his mind to return to Londinium. Everything is over by the time he arrives. Politics prevent Wryneck from defending Tonelico as all of the fairies accuse her. Wryneck comes to agonize over his decision for the rest of his life into the Queen's Era. "Maybe if I had been there, things would have been different… …No. Nothing would have changed. Nothing at all. I, a fairy of Britain, could never have saved Tonelico." 1000 A.D. The Great Calamity, the Mors Campaign, begins. Aged Wryneck takes to the battlefield, his resolve grim. "Begone, King of the Mors. This is her nation, the land she suffered so much to build. I'll never let you take it from her." So falls the greatest of the Fang Clan, clearing the way for the next generation.
in a way woodwose is the echo of wyrenck's love and loyalty to morgan/aesc and it gives me feelings about what morgan would have felt looking at woodwose and also remembering wyrneck. it also imo makes her line "young woodwose, my brave woodwose," that much more meaningful; his predecessor was one of her closest friends and allies, who, despite the way things ended, loved her to the bitter end
