Editing Dryads (section)

== Physiology ==

=== Appearance ===
Dryads look humanoid, but made of wood and plants. Flowers sometimes grew in their 'hair', which could fall off naturally.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2023/01/22/9-33/ Chapter 9.33]</ref>

=== Physical Qualities ===
They are beings of nature, with wooden bodies. They are connected to a Great Tree. If their tree dies, their body will petrify into stone.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2021/09/15/interlude-songs-and-stories/ Interlude - Song and Stories]</ref> They a long time to age.

There are also Lesser Dryads, also called Sapborns, who are half-conscious manifestations of lesser tree and are hundreds of years old at most. But they still age more quickly than the true Dryads.<ref name=":0">[https://wanderinginn.com/2021/10/31/8-50/ Chapter 8.50]</ref><ref name=":1">[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/07/12/9-06/ Chapter 9.06]</ref>

==== Reproduction ====
Dryads are created from large forests and Great Trees, and are born from seeds. They must be germinated in a great forest. An undersea kelp forest counts as a possible place. A [[Treants|Treant]] could grow a seed, before they became a part of the ocean.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/12/21/9-30/ Chapter 9.30]</ref>

Lesser Dryads may become the basis for a true Dryad after centuries.<ref name=":1" />

=== Magical Qualities ===

=== Special Abilities ===

=== Weaknesses ===
They are vulnerable to parasites.<ref name=":2">[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/07/10/9-05-npr/ Chapter 9.05 NPR]</ref>