Dryads (SD)

Dryads are tree like creatures that take the appearance of women, and safeguard The Woods from all who would despoil it in an unnatural way.
== Physical Description ==
A dryad is an oddly beautiful creature. Though definitely a tree, and could possibly be mistaken for a small one if they stood perfect still, they none the less have the form of a woman. Their movements are oddly graceful, almost like a dance. This is made all the more discerning by some Dryads having the ability to teleport, making the watcher puzzled and trying to work out if they had really just teleported, or if they'd been so hypnotized by the movement that they blanked out for a second. Dryads differ in exact proportions, but since Vasa was used as a template for them, they tend to share her physique, and have fairly vague features.
== Habitat ==
Dryads live in The Woods, though they also appear in other forests and the like. Wherever they go, they are fairly shy creatures, and will often shadow visitors. If however the visitors do something stupid like try to set fire to the place, or the visitor is of Abberant or otherwise non Material origin, the Dryads will converge in a mass of flailing wooden limbs and attempt to tear the interlopers apart. Dryads are not intelligent in the conventional sense, but do possess a sort of single cell mind set not unlike an ant colony, albeit an ant colony in which all the members are telepathically linked.
== Origin ==
The Dryads were created by Althas, after The Borte warned him that leaving The Woods alone might well result in its destruction at the hands of the odd abberant monstrosities that had begun to populate it. In order to safeguard it, Althas left both The Borte and the Dryads behind.
== Stats ==
As in "Monster Manual"
Category:Monsters (SD)