Arkadiusz….

Maybe the original owner of the forest? “Sleeping” but not dead….

At first I was like “don’t be the leshy, don’t be the leshy!”

But I did a re-read…. The original ancestor MUST be fae or have made a bargain for a “nature preserve of the cryptids” if you will, for an exchange that goes on through your ancestry! Hence the Bies taking up refuge in your woods. ‘From earth’ but wanting to take over Aleskei for dominance over the woods, perhaps?