Traunt

* **Overview**
* Gallery
* Abilities
* Relationships

> Often the confident neglect to notice the simplest things.
> King Traunt Redwood, addressing Jennessa Carlton during a duel.
>

King Traunt displaying his abilities.

**King Yjorm "Traunt" Redwood** is the banished king of the Doormounders, now the king of the Tree People. He is a floral-based being.

## Design

Traunt is a strong, ginormous brute of a man with coarse, rough skin and a beard with wooden tusks. The very first Tree Person, he is the founding father of his race.

## Backstory

King Traunt Redwood was raised on the Old Continent as a young Doormounder - the most common and powerful race on said continent. After becoming the general of the Porcelain Queen's army, he was enlisted as the leader of an operation to settle on a new continent, Orth. Becoming the King of this settlement, he was met with force from Emperor Eyne, the tyrannical ruler of the Cloud Kingdom. After a long war, Traunt's own people betrayed him and imprisoned him, offering his life to Eyne in exchange for peace. Eyne accepted, and attempted to execute him and the few followers he had left. Despite his best attempts, he could not kill Traunt no matter how he tried, and Traunt broke from his chains. In a panic, Eyne demanded a portal be opened to another world to entrap him, to get rid of him somehow. Traunt relentlessly pursued Eyne, and in a last desperate attempt to stop the humiliated king, cast a curse upon him, temporarily immobilising him as his body was turned into that of a never ageing tree...

Traunt and his followers woke up, bodies contorted into that of the forest around them. Tree People, no longer the animal people they used to be... From then on, Traunt raised a new empire. The Dark Forest was his new kingdom, and the Tree People: his family.

After 100 years, Traunt had become happy and content again. Although originally hesitant to find love, he married a beautiful half-Doormounder woman named Gemeli, and had a child - a full tree person named  Mahogany. However, tragedy struck. Although all the Tree People were immortal like Traunt, Gemeli - being a half Doormounder - was not. She died of old age, and Traunt was struck was grief. Rage filled his heart, and he vowed to return to Orth, and slay the foul Cloud Emperor who cursed him with immortality...

## Power

**Titan Growth**

Traunt's ability is to grow any part/parts of his body up to 60 feet big while simultaneously armouring and making said limb/limbs impenetrably hard. Using this ability, he's able to absolutely decimate buildings, lines of defence, or knock and crush foes instantaneously. Although this power doesn't leave much to the imagination in terms of creative ways to use it, it's still unimaginably strong in a fight.

Usage

Traunt tends to use his abilities as he's meant to, although has developed his entire fighting style around it. Usually, his battle tactic is to grow one limb to it's maximum size and rapidly bring it down upon his foe before quickly shrinking it again (as seen in his fight with Jennessa Carlton).

However, his simple ability does not mean he isn't creative with it all the time. He uses the armoured effect of his grown limbs to his advantage. Should someone attack his chest, he'll rapidly grow it to harden it, thrusting his chest out to ram his attacker away while simultaneously blocking the blow. His fighting style is simultaneously defensive and patient while also being aggressive and barbaric.

Potential

Traunt pairs his centuries of training and experience with his deadly ability to absolutely decimate his enemies and their forces, often sparing his people most of the work. His ability may not leave much to the imagination or be used as creatively as others, but it's still an extremely powerful ability, and not to be messed with.

Counter

Like every person with a magical ability in Traunt's world, magical abilities come with a drawback equal to the strength of the power you're born with. For Traunt, this drawback is blood pressure. When he grows, only his skin and bones grow, leaving his organs and bodily fluids at the same amount as they were prior, leaving his heart to frantically attempt to refill his body to an equivalent amount.

For example, if he grew his entire body to 60 feet (6 times his usual height) he would still only possess the amount of blood of his 10 foot self, making him light headed or even fainting. This is why he needs to use his abilities as sparingly and quickly as possible, shrinking his limbs the moment they've served their purpose.

## Trivia

* He was content with residing in the Dark Forest after being banished there until his wife died of old age. From then on, he vowed to escape his prison and kill the man who banished him 250 years ago.
* Although he doesn't fully understand his daughter Mahogany's sexuality, he's supportive regardless.
* As the first tree person, he originally was not actually a tree person. When he was banished, he was cursed with immortality - physically changing his body into the slowest ageing thing in nature: trees.
* He was originally a Doormounder, a race of animal people who settled on Orth a year before his banishment.
* He was the King of the Doormounders.
* He absolutely loves spinach.
* He is immortal - which means although he can die, he cannot die of old age.
* After 50 years of trying to wear shirts, he gave up.

 Mangrove •  **Traunt**