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That’s how I always read it but I (understandably, imo) basically always read any existential threat as a climate metaphor.
the first ever sentence describing them in the prologue of the first book is “A shadow emerged from the dark of the wood.”
It’s a literal shadow of the wood, a tree spirit. Weirwood spirits haunting mankind for their past sins, the consequences of old blood magic boiling over. Couldn’t be more on the nose as a climate metaphor when it’s nature blowback.
I agree, but it’s difficult to reconcile it with the first book coming out in '96 when climate change wasn’t really on most people’s radar imo.
he’s a big hippy and was active in ecology circles, he’s also extremely well read and actively made an erratic and changing climate a major plot-point of the series