jack_inthegreen | OOC: a bit of game-canon

Fewer and fewer offerings were left to Jack as Britain became Christian and nature worship was shut out. Feeling forgotten, he retreated into the forest, which was very dense in those days, and towards the beginning of the middle ages made one last effort to be remembered: he showed himself to his descendants (yes, it is also part of my story for him that he had at least one mortal wife and they had children together, starting a line of artists and gardeners) and tried to remind them of him. Some of them were stonemasons and and carved his face into the churches, but it wasn't enough.

So Jack left Britain and wandered the world, all the way to Asia and the jungles of India. He tried at first to lose himself in the jungles, but Krishna's music called him out. Krishna reminded him that as long as there were growing things the world needed the Green Man, even if they didn't know his name, and there was still much he could give to humanity.

Eventually Jack made his way back to Europe where he refashioned himself into the genial gardener and friend of artists he is today, though he's always regretted being away from England when Shakespeare was still alive. He feels they would have gotten along quite well.