Overview
Basic Details
*Name: currently none
*Species: Treefolk, subspecies (Strangling Fig)
*Age: 26
*Height: 4 foot 2 inches
*Weight: ~243 lbs
*Hair: green elliptical leaves with red tinge
*Eyes: has none
*Skin: grayish-tan bark
Personal Details
* Occupation: none
* Place of Birth: Iuk-'u Delta
* Affiliation: none
* Home: Banyan forests of the Iuk-'u Delta
* Aliases: none
Appearance
Without understating, this-one appears to be a normal tree by all physical distinction. Born of an ancient Banyan tree, the “strangling fig”, this-one has a lanky body compared to common solid trunk trees. It has gray bark-skin and four main tendril appendages, each branching near the tips into pale root structures. These aerial roots descend from a bulkier section near the top of the creatures mass, where they join with the upper branches in a stubby trunk. Several large, leathery and glossy elliptical.leaves with reddish tinge extend into a small canopy above the main body. Each appendage-like aerial root is manipulated separately to facilitate movement, in a somewhat disturbingly spider-like crawl. Possessing no eyes or ears or nose or mouth, this-one do not possess a face or an apparent orientation.
Skills and Abilities
Photosynthetic Metabolism:
In most ways, the treefolk is just a tree, requiring the same things to survive. They create their own sustenance through photosynthesis. Dependant entirely upon the parent species of tree, each treefolk has specific terrain, light, water and nutrient requirements in order to grow properly, and thus provide everything they need to sustain their health and vitality.
Tree Senses:
Treefolk have several senses, many of which are quite similar to that of a humans. Detecting light with the surfaces of their leaves and stems, this sense works in 360 degrees but is severely nearsighted, only able to track movement within ten yards while details remain blurry until within a few inches. In a sense akin to both smelling and tasting, treefolk detect scents to identify compositions in soil, sources of water and the air. By releasing their own scents, they may communicate with other plants. These signals are complex, using emotional impressions rather than language yet able to relate detailed information and abstract concepts as easily as it can signal threat or peaceful intentions. Using their sensitivity to air pressure, changes in temperature, and subtle vibrations, treefolk possess a sense somewhat like combining ‘touch’ and ‘hearing’. They interpret the vibration of various frequencies with their whole bodies, able to 'hear' above and below normal audio frequencies. They can detect and track movement by feeling vibrations through the ground and to a lesser degree movement through the air or water. Treefolk are capable of detailed tactile sensation, including subtle and discriminatory pressures as well as pain.
Wooden Body :
While not as hard as the metal armors created by warrior races, treefolk are solid creatures made of tightly layered living fibers. Combined with a outer layer of tougher bark-skin and regenerative regrowth, they are resistant to damage from non-magical weapons, crushing pressure and impacts. Treefolk do not possess vital organs, and are able to regenerate body parts. They do not bleed, can cannot be choked, have no eyes to blind or ears to deafen. If starved of any necessity for an extended period of time, they will begin to wither. A treefolk can enter a partial hibernation, reducing their functions to a minimal state to last as long as possible, Burning through their own life-force for basic sustenance, this condition is a last resort and without nutrition will eventually die, as the magical essence fades away leaving a mindless and rotting tree.
Perfect Camouflage:
As disguises go, this is not one. Treefolk are trees and may simply chose to remain still in order to appear as any other tree. The effectiveness of this as a means to hide from the detection of another creature, is dependent on circumstance, but any place where a tree would be reasonable to exist is enough for the casual observer, but a tree appearing suddenly or in a new location where there was previously none, will tip off most intelligent people.
Slow-moving:
Hindered by the stiffness of their wooden bodies and physical weight, treefolk are commonly slow moving and somewhat clumsy. Not only must they move their own mass, but are pulling up and re-planting their root-feet with each step. Because of this most are unable to move at a pace fast than a brisk walk. Furthermore, their magically-enabled movements requires a great conscious effort on the part of the treefolk, and is best performed with a clear intent. If unfocused or with interference of their senses, one could find their momentum carrying them passed their targets or discover quite suddenly that they are using inappropriate force.
Uprooted:
If completely removed from the ground (or preferred terrain), the treefolk will begin experience a sensation comparable to vertigo, and their senses will begin to dull quickly. Extend periods of disconnection to the ground or at least a solid surface commonly results in a loss of consciousness. This sensation is so strong that treefolk are unable to jump or even able to run, which would require them to lifts their limbs from the ground too swiftly to recover.
In most ways, the treefolk is just a tree, requiring the same things to survive. They create their own sustenance through photosynthesis. Dependant entirely upon the parent species of tree, each treefolk has specific terrain, light, water and nutrient requirements in order to grow properly, and thus provide everything they need to sustain their health and vitality.
Tree Senses:
Treefolk have several senses, many of which are quite similar to that of a humans. Detecting light with the surfaces of their leaves and stems, this sense works in 360 degrees but is severely nearsighted, only able to track movement within ten yards while details remain blurry until within a few inches. In a sense akin to both smelling and tasting, treefolk detect scents to identify compositions in soil, sources of water and the air. By releasing their own scents, they may communicate with other plants. These signals are complex, using emotional impressions rather than language yet able to relate detailed information and abstract concepts as easily as it can signal threat or peaceful intentions. Using their sensitivity to air pressure, changes in temperature, and subtle vibrations, treefolk possess a sense somewhat like combining ‘touch’ and ‘hearing’. They interpret the vibration of various frequencies with their whole bodies, able to 'hear' above and below normal audio frequencies. They can detect and track movement by feeling vibrations through the ground and to a lesser degree movement through the air or water. Treefolk are capable of detailed tactile sensation, including subtle and discriminatory pressures as well as pain.
Wooden Body :
While not as hard as the metal armors created by warrior races, treefolk are solid creatures made of tightly layered living fibers. Combined with a outer layer of tougher bark-skin and regenerative regrowth, they are resistant to damage from non-magical weapons, crushing pressure and impacts. Treefolk do not possess vital organs, and are able to regenerate body parts. They do not bleed, can cannot be choked, have no eyes to blind or ears to deafen. If starved of any necessity for an extended period of time, they will begin to wither. A treefolk can enter a partial hibernation, reducing their functions to a minimal state to last as long as possible, Burning through their own life-force for basic sustenance, this condition is a last resort and without nutrition will eventually die, as the magical essence fades away leaving a mindless and rotting tree.
Perfect Camouflage:
As disguises go, this is not one. Treefolk are trees and may simply chose to remain still in order to appear as any other tree. The effectiveness of this as a means to hide from the detection of another creature, is dependent on circumstance, but any place where a tree would be reasonable to exist is enough for the casual observer, but a tree appearing suddenly or in a new location where there was previously none, will tip off most intelligent people.
Slow-moving:
Hindered by the stiffness of their wooden bodies and physical weight, treefolk are commonly slow moving and somewhat clumsy. Not only must they move their own mass, but are pulling up and re-planting their root-feet with each step. Because of this most are unable to move at a pace fast than a brisk walk. Furthermore, their magically-enabled movements requires a great conscious effort on the part of the treefolk, and is best performed with a clear intent. If unfocused or with interference of their senses, one could find their momentum carrying them passed their targets or discover quite suddenly that they are using inappropriate force.
Uprooted:
If completely removed from the ground (or preferred terrain), the treefolk will begin experience a sensation comparable to vertigo, and their senses will begin to dull quickly. Extend periods of disconnection to the ground or at least a solid surface commonly results in a loss of consciousness. This sensation is so strong that treefolk are unable to jump or even able to run, which would require them to lifts their limbs from the ground too swiftly to recover.
Personality
Extremely curious and fearless for a treefolk, this-one is a wild individual, unconcerned or unknowledgeable of the customs of other races, this young Treefolk has grown up isolated from the influences the outside world, its people or their cultures. Almost childlike in their method at times, this-one uses what senses they have to begun in earnest to understand something that it cannot seem to commune with. Animals of any kind seem not to relay information through their cells, they do not even have proper roots, and their smells are foul like a warning.
They consider themselves to be caretaker of their homeland, most times as a part of the greater biodiverse community of the nature, and sometimes it must become its steward or perhaps one day it’s protector. While willing to become so, this-one considers violence distasteful. Using their natural camouflage and a bit of ingenuity, this-one has played tricks on their senses and sanity in order to guide intruders away. So far that has worked.
They consider themselves to be caretaker of their homeland, most times as a part of the greater biodiverse community of the nature, and sometimes it must become its steward or perhaps one day it’s protector. While willing to become so, this-one considers violence distasteful. Using their natural camouflage and a bit of ingenuity, this-one has played tricks on their senses and sanity in order to guide intruders away. So far that has worked.
Biography
This-one was born in ancient an cenote, hidden from the outside world since an age long passed. A wellspring of natural mana had pooled at the base of a old Quenepa Tree, and fallen from the ancient Banyan forest above, a strangling fig landed into its leaves. Strangling the Quenepa, and drinking from the wellspring, this-one was born and over the next twenty-six, or so, annual cycles this lone sapling developed into a young adult treefolk, making the cenote its home and from their exploring the regions of the Iuk-'u Delta. From glacial springs to marshy shores, learning of and from the land has been this-one’s only occupation.
This-one is curious. They spend a lot of time thinking. The enjoy imagining. They enjoy watching animals, they befriended the stones, and greet the trees dailey. They wonder what the rest of the world is like, and how other creatures live.
This-one is from a species that is different from common tree, its trunk is made of multiple descending branches called aerial roots rather than a single central trunk. Adapted to the varied terrains and challenges of the Iuk-'u Delta, they are excellent at climbing and crawling, even through the brackish waters of the low marshes.
This-one is curious. They spend a lot of time thinking. The enjoy imagining. They enjoy watching animals, they befriended the stones, and greet the trees dailey. They wonder what the rest of the world is like, and how other creatures live.
This-one is from a species that is different from common tree, its trunk is made of multiple descending branches called aerial roots rather than a single central trunk. Adapted to the varied terrains and challenges of the Iuk-'u Delta, they are excellent at climbing and crawling, even through the brackish waters of the low marshes.