Dryads

If you see a pack of Dryads, run. Little is known about these forest dwelling creatures. Like the Nords and Draekin they are larger than most, standing around 6ft in height. They are easily recognized by their brown to grey skin tones and the branches that stick out of their skin.

Dryads are part plant and born with a seed inside their hearts. Over time this seed roots in their body and sprouts branches from their skin. Roots also commonly stick out but then retreat back into the skin within a few inches. They have large manes of hair as their hairline goes down to the mid back on males and just below the neck on females. Hair colors are usually cool colors such as purple, green or blue, and the branches in their hair sprout leaves of warmer colors such as yellow and red, but can also be green.

They seem to be fairly primitive in technology but have their own kind of weaponsmithing called cold forging, where they use special alchemical water and run it over metal like a stream to shape their weapons and give them strength, these weapons are easily recognized for their cobalt color.

Dryads are usually hostile to others but some of their people are known as Arbiters, these Dryads have been exiled from their people to start anew, and many have joined the towns of other species. These Arbiters offer little more understanding of their people as it seems that their memories are not left intact upon their exile.