It took some time but eventually the party stopped to rest for themselves.
They all seemed to understand that the survival knowledge of the white stag race was developed on fleeing more than anything. There were some of the older members of the village who had worse injuries from years ago but had survived nonetheless. Proving that their toughness had developed over a long term before they had gained the intelligence to make them a race.
However, there were signs that they were using tools and weapons, but they did not have other races to push them forward enough that they had newer and brighter ideas. Whenever they started to change and adapt even more, they would be attacked by a monster and lose their homes too.
This was a rough cycle of trying to advance but being set back over and over while their numbers decreased. Now that the party had given them the materials to be able to break that cycle, there was a larger potential that they would begin to advance rapidly.
