Dryad, Yagure Mori (3.5e Race)
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[edit] Dryad of Yagure Mori
[edit] Personality
Dryads of Yagure Mori are often bold, mischievous and light hearted. They live with the animals and spirits of the forest. Residing in the forest they understand little of laws and rules this is regularly displayed in the form of tricking townsfolk and taunting animals. Since these Dryads are only found in this one forest they are not well known by other races of the Island or elsewhere, this means that they usually get mistaken for exceptionally pretty female humans from a distant land. A Dryad of the Mori’s main aim is to have fun and enjoy their short life. They tend to have a love for nature and a strong desire to be around animals.
[edit] Physical Description
Dryads are tall in height standing an elegant 6 to 7 feet tall. The Dryad has a slender and beautiful appearance that resembles a humanoid female. The skin is firm and can come in many colours ranging from white, to grassy greens, barky browns and even jet black. They often have long hair atop of their pretty head that also ranges in a variety of natural colours. In their forest home the Dryads are often mistaken for angels that have come to aid lost travelers in the nightmarish Yagure Mori.
Born from the trees of the forest that move around at night, the Dryads themselves are incapable of reproducing, their purpose is a mystery. With beautiful bodies that most humanoid men desire and an elegance that make most women jealous it is believed that the Dryads of Yagure Mori actually were created by the forest spirits to taunt and manipulate the lost even further.
The Dryads have larger eyes than that of a standard human and they are glassy in appearance and bright green, hazel or brown in colour. They often wear very little or nothing at all and if they do it is merely as decoration to make themselves happier. However the few that venture outside of the forest usually steal other humanoids clothes or make their own out of weaving plants and leaves together.
Dryads weigh about a quarter less than a human female. They are born fully formed and do not seem to age they usually have a life span of ten to thirty years.
[edit] Relations
Dryads ignore other Dryads they have no attachment to one another at all, some wonder if the Dryads can even see each other at all. The Dryads only real attachments and relations are to the animals and plants that surround them. Often adopting an animal companion or two the Dryads make great druids or rangers. Like everything in the Mori they are used to the evil spirits that parade around in the night, therefore they do not provoke them and in return do not get attacked.
As far as relations with other races go, the Dryads only interact with those that come into the forest and the Dryads that leave the forest are in the minority and often pass as human females. Therefore the relations between races on a mass scale do not exist.
[edit] Alignment
The Dryads of Yagure Mori are usually chaotic neutral. Follow no rules, often playful and mischievous they are free souls in the open forest.
[edit] Lands
All of the Yagure Mori Dryads come from the Yagure Mori forest. In daylight a beautiful forest surrounded by vibrant trees and magical fruit and many adorable animals, a forest anyone would be warmed by even the stoniest hateful adventurer. However at night it turns into a sinister spirit filled prison that preys on those who happen to be wandering through. Powerful malevolent spirits are often encountered, the trees and ground shift about of their own accord, making it almost impossible for anyone to find out what direction they came from and where they are going.
Even though this is a deadly environment for an outsider, the Dryads are not confused or shocked by anything that happens within the forest and this hardens them to the outside world. They spend most of their time with the spirit creatures at night and in the day many animals.
[edit] Religion
The only thing the Dryads worship is the forest that gave birth to them. Even if they leave they will always be drawn towards the Yagure Mori.
[edit] Language
All Dryads speak Spirit Tongue and most learn other languages of the races they encounter. This means that most only learn common, sylvan and draconic (from the Whiskered Kobolds)
[edit] Names
Dryads of the Yagure Mori adopt names if they are trying to fit in with the outside world, otherwise they remain nameless
[edit] Racial Traits
- Type: Fey
- Stat Bonuses: +4 Cha, +2 Dex, –2 Str, -2 Int The Dryads of Yagure Mori are naturally beautiful and full of grace, but they are weaker in physical power and lack a little in intelligence.
- Darkvision: A Dryad can see up to 60ft in the dark
- Light Sensitivity: Dryads of the Mori are dazzled in bright sunlight or within the radius of a daylight spell.
- +1 natural armour bonus due to their naturally thicker skin.
- Dryads gain a +2 on all Will saves due to their time spent in the nightmarish forest they have learnt to accept the stranger things of the world.
- Dryads gain a +1 on all Reflex saves because of their natural grace.
- Dryads have a racial bonus of +4 to all handle animal, spot and survival checks, due to its life in the forest.
- Dryads of the Mori also gain a +8 to bluff checks when confronting humanoid males; this is due to years of practice in the deep forest.
- Dryads have the natural ability to speak with animals therefore they are permanently under the effects of the spell Speak with animals.
- Dryads also leave no footprints or signs of where they have been. So for game purposes they are permanently under the effects of the spell Pass without trace.
- Size: Medium
- Base Land Speed: Dryads base land speed is 30ft
- Automatic Languages: Spirit Tongue. Bonus Languages: Spirit Tongue, Common, Draconic.
- Favored class: Druid. A multiclass Dryad's Druid class does not count when determining whether they take a experience point penalty.
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