Dryads
Dryads are so rarely seen, that one would wonder if they even exist at all?
- Master Arcana Glendlock, Orlesian Kingship Court Wizard
Naming Traditions
Feminine names
Nervelis, Khild, Channi, Hiniye, Ohhona
Masculine names
All Dryad are Female
Family names
Dryads take family names under banners for characteristics that they share with forms of natural magic. Like the historical Khild Sunwidow, whom had great mastery over the realms of entropy and energy magics.
Culture
Major language groups and dialects
Dryad and Ancient Dryad. Though the historical excursionist Dryad are often known to speak a large plethora of strange lexi.
Culture and cultural heritage
This is very well a mystery as well. And not a single excursionists, of the few many since time has dawned in the first place, has spread any knowledge about the Dryad Culture
Shared customary codes and values
Dryads stay with their congregation, and their kind, and little more. The non-natural world is littered with non-natural filth. Those who disobey the Elder Council, are banished from the Congregation, and are often come to be called Excursionists by the outside historians. Though these are so rare, if one were to happen twice in 500 years, would be stand to called a strange anomaly.
Average technological level
Unknown
Common Etiquette rules
The etiquette of Dryad are mostly unknown, as no non-dryad has ever been to their civilization, at least not lived to come back and tell the tales.
Common Dress code
Wild and Free, one would suppose
Art & Architecture
We honestly have no clue
- Drax StoneCutter, Dwarven Architectural Master
Common Customs, traditions and rituals
Customs and Traditions are unknown the outside races.
Common Taboos
Disobeying the Elder Council is the only known taboo. What constitutes disobedience is beyond any other mortal.
Historical figures
The Sun once set from treetop to treetop, and that was my home and world. But now, I am free to see the world as it is and can be. My sun rises from mountain to ocean, and the grasp of the Gods smile down on me. Nature is so much more, Life is so much more. And I am not afraid to live it...
- Khild Sunwidow, First Excursionist Dryad, and Ancient Hero of Ophana
Ideals
Beauty Ideals
Dryads, as lore would hold it, hold the beauty of nature in the highest regard. It is said that the closer a dryad looks and becomes to a true being of nature, the closer they are to the source of their creation, and ultimate happiness. Or so some half thousand year old history books say.
Gender Ideals
Dryads are all female, for all that is known
Courtship Ideals
Dryads mate almost exclusively with Trents, though historical examples like Khild Sunwidow show that, Dryads that leave from their congregation are capable of producing offspring with other races, and are even possible of holstering feelings of love and affection.
Relationship Ideals
The truer to natural contentment something is, the more naturalistic happiness the dryad will experience, so often time, very tribalistic and brutal mating habits are demonstrated in more fantastical depictions of Dryad relationships. Often, in love-lust tales, an excursionist Dryad leaves a whole swath of lovers behind.
Major organizations
The Elder Council
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