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I have been watching a few too many nature-themed videos lately, and writing this came to mind after inspecting a random player. I'm leaving it here, in case it manages to entertain someone.
Wood elves, so named for their dry bark and pointy-ended branches are an increasingly rare type of tree native to Faerûn. There are some botanists that claim they are not a native species, but actually an invasive genotype that made its way to Faerûn in ancient times from space. Botanists who have clearly suffered one too many probings and can't even watch a tree canopy without fantasizing about flying saucers.
A long lived tree of spindly trunk and flexible, thin branches, it is well known for its ability to camouflage itself in its surroundings, which can come to be a quite shameful event for those who fail to locate it, as being outsmarted by a tree is up there with losing at tick-tack-toe with a squirrel in the list of things you don't wanted documented for posterity.
Preferring temperate climates and already populated forests, they are far better suited to surviving natural changes in their environment than other subspecies of their same genus, the other examples of the Elven genus being known to carry the genetic tendency to die of shock if as much as an unsightly shrub shows the audacity of growing anywhere in their vicinity.
But they are unable to completely escape the trappings of their family, and are equally susceptible to man-made changes in their environment, their habitats severely affected by the encroachment of farms, cities, and slime racing courses to the point of endangerment.
However, while susceptible they are not defenceless, as the stress caused by the encroachment of human habitats causes their already flimsy branches splinter and bend downwards, a position which they hold until the tree is disturbed, at which point with a final sonorous crack they will fall downwards point-first towards the disturbance.
Some researchers have suggested this 'crack' to be some sort of sonorous lure, for many an unlucky hunter or lumberjack has found out that looking up at a suspect sound in a forest can easily end with your eye poked out. Others, have pointed out that creaking is the normal sound made by breaking wood.
The debate continues to this day.
Here are true facts about the Wood Elves,
Wood elves, so named for their dry bark and pointy-ended branches are an increasingly rare type of tree native to Faerûn. There are some botanists that claim they are not a native species, but actually an invasive genotype that made its way to Faerûn in ancient times from space. Botanists who have clearly suffered one too many probings and can't even watch a tree canopy without fantasizing about flying saucers.A long lived tree of spindly trunk and flexible, thin branches, it is well known for its ability to camouflage itself in its surroundings, which can come to be a quite shameful event for those who fail to locate it, as being outsmarted by a tree is up there with losing at tick-tack-toe with a squirrel in the list of things you don't wanted documented for posterity.
Preferring temperate climates and already populated forests, they are far better suited to surviving natural changes in their environment than other subspecies of their same genus, the other examples of the Elven genus being known to carry the genetic tendency to die of shock if as much as an unsightly shrub shows the audacity of growing anywhere in their vicinity.
But they are unable to completely escape the trappings of their family, and are equally susceptible to man-made changes in their environment, their habitats severely affected by the encroachment of farms, cities, and slime racing courses to the point of endangerment.
However, while susceptible they are not defenceless, as the stress caused by the encroachment of human habitats causes their already flimsy branches splinter and bend downwards, a position which they hold until the tree is disturbed, at which point with a final sonorous crack they will fall downwards point-first towards the disturbance.
Some researchers have suggested this 'crack' to be some sort of sonorous lure, for many an unlucky hunter or lumberjack has found out that looking up at a suspect sound in a forest can easily end with your eye poked out. Others, have pointed out that creaking is the normal sound made by breaking wood.
The debate continues to this day.
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