Treants

Treants are sentient, tree-like beings that mainly reside in the Treant Empire, although they can be found elsewhere. Treants look like trees that grew legs and a face. They are very large creatures, usually ranging from 10 - 20ft. Because treants never stop growing, bigger heights can be achieved, with sizes being reported up to 60ft tall. However, for a treant to reach that size they would have to be a little over a thousand years old. Treants can hypothetically never die, but after 280 - 350 years the difficulty to maintain a working body and a sound mind becomes very hard, killing almost all treants. Any treant managing to live past this age and somehow survive would lose their sanity and become unable to move at all. The death of a Treant, referred to as falling down, is regarded as a natural and respectable part of life.
No one knows for sure how Treants were created. Ancient history tells of Gloria-Etalia making treants to serve them and tame nature for civilisation. 
Necrotic Treants
In the Rams Head, there is a fungal parasite called Trunk Blight that kills trees. Trunk Blight is small and moss-like, with the pigmentation of red rust. For normal trees, these fungus is slow acting as it feeds off of the tree, and does not kill it until after decades. For treants however once seeded the fungus is fast acting and can kill a Treant in a matter of days. There is no way to remove the fungus except by amputation, which is often fatal for a treant affected on the main trunk. It’s method of spreading by constantly releasing spores that glide around the tree makes an affected treant deadly to be around other treants at a close distance. 
When a treant is killed by Trunk Blight after a few hours (3-12) the corpse undergoes a curious effect. It reanimates, and tries to spread the fungus by affecting other trees and treants. These Uncontained, an outbreak of tree blight in a treant dense area can be potentially catastrophic. 
Necrotic Treants do not need to eat, or sleep, and seem to lose all mental functions. A Necrotic Treant looks like a regular Treant except they are mostly covered in Trunk Blight. Their eyes also rot out of their sockets, leaving empty holes where they once were. Their faces permanently sag open, and the body starts to decompose slightly.
Category:Races