Dryad. Image from EngKit
Dryads are female-shaped tree elves, very solitary and extremely beautiful.
Physically they have very delicate features, similar to those of elven maidens. They have violet or dark green eyes and their hair and skin change color depending on the season. In this way they can blend into the forest without being seen. In winter their hair and skin are white, in autumn reddish, and in spring and summer they have very tanned skin and green hair.
Each dryad belongs to an oak tree in the forest. They are attached to their tree for life and cannot move more than 300 meters from it or they die slowly. A dryad is capable of literally penetrating a tree and from inside transporting itself to the oak tree to which it belongs.
Dryad in the forest. Image by Csaba Csővári
If someone hits the oak tree it’s attached to, the dryad physically takes the same damage, so it will try to defend it at all costs.
A dryad has absolute control over the tree to which it is attached, so it is capable of causing its branches to bloom even when it is not the season, new plants to appear around the tree, and can even cause a sudden growth of grass that makes stumble upon intruders.
The dryads speak several languages and their great intelligence allows them to communicate with almost all the beings of the forest, in addition, they speak the musical language and that of plants.
They are not aggressive at all and, only if they are attacked, they cast a spell on their assailants to defend themselves. A dryad’s spell has great power and only humans or beings with high resistance to magic can avoid being charmed.
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