Millenia ago
Bidz was born a long time ago into the mother forest that all of his kind call their place of origin, though no one aside from them knows where it’s located. He spent his first years among his fellow forest gods there - the few older ones tasked with raising the new arrivals among them, and the other young spirits like him who had come into existence not too long ago. There weren’t many spirits the same age as Bidz, as every time a forest is created a god for it is born that will live and die with it - and not a lot of forests just spring up in the matter of a few weeks. Nonetheless Bidz made fast friends with the few other gods of his age, growing up with them and awaiting the fateful day at which he would finally learn of his true animal and be assigned his own forest to guard.
Centuries ago
After travelling to the ancient Canadian Yukon Bidz started living among the land, spending his days in solemn loneliness that was only broken by brief encounters with humans every so often. Most of them, the poachers and bandits that dared to take his forest for their own, he.. got rid of. People who simply passed or didn't take more than they needed, he let be. There weren't really any humans he held contact with for more than a moment - other than the native tribes, that is. They were the first to ever come upon the forest god, hundreds to thousands of years before he would ever come across the European settlers making their way of the land.
Bidz learned to live with them, both learning from their human ways and culture and bestowing them with some of his own as long as they remained respectful of the nature he was made to protect. Thought he would have enjoyed living like this forever, the later years of human history brought with them a callousness and cruelty he had never senn before that point. Bidz watched as humans massacred each other for land, gold and possessions, and with each year that they became more vile, taking more than they needed and killing the creatures of his forest for the mere fun of it, Bidz too grew more cruel and callous - to the point of taking their life as repayment for the havoc they wreaked among nature. It was a very harsh way of dealing with the modern settlers that had come to invade the previously untouched parts of the world, and not all forest gods were as successful as Bidz was at preventing the destruction of their homes - and as Bidz had to watch, the destruction of the people who had lived in harmony with him and the land for centuries before that
Modern Times
Despite his hatred for most of humanity Bidz learned to adapt very quickly compared to the other forest gods. He picked up on the modern ways over time, to the point that he even built a human house in the more Southern parts of his forest. He eventually became much more human-like, and technology isn't something unusual to find in his home despite him not being too fond of humans. He will even venture down into the human cities from time to time in order to buy things, or advocate for the protection of his lands in a human disguise. After the loss of the friendly tribes that welcomed him he has spent the last centuries all alone - wandering the woods, protecting them on his own as humanity threatens to take them from him one day.
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