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=== Physical Qualities === | === 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 | 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> | 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 ==== | ==== Reproduction ==== | ||
Dryads are born from seeds | 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" /> | Lesser Dryads may become the basis for a true Dryad after centuries.<ref name=":1" /> | ||