Dryas

LN

## Appearance

She has very long light-green hair, teal eyes, and wears a dress decorated with flowers.

## Personality

The village's elders describe her as good but whimsical.

## Story

A high level mid class spirit specialized in earth spirit arts whose principal body it's the enormous world tree located near the spirit folk's village, since they settled there more than one thousand years ago the spirit people has deified, held annually in her honor the spirit festival, hidden her main body from the rest of the world with several layers of barriers and attended to her, in exchange she gives her blessing to the village's inhabitants when they reach a certain age, something that raises slightly their total quantity of magic power and their aptitude for spirit arts and lets them to use the world tree's sap as an ingredient for the spirit liquor, elixirs and panaceas.

As a spirit of nature Dryas possesses a great quantity of knowledge about plants and how to cultivate them, when the spirit folk that settled near her principal body came from all over the continent bringing with them all types of plants and seeds for cultivating them she advised them about the right way of doing it, when Rio brought back from the Yagumo region several types of trees and plants that the spirit folk didn't have in its village she was the one to teach them the right way of rising those trees.

When Rio arrived to the village for the first time she was able of feeling Aishia's presence on him and she informed him of the fact that he had formed a contract with a humanoid spirit, half a year later on the spirit festival she would give her blessing to Rio too as a proof of him becoming the spirit folk's sworn friend.

When Rio brought Aishia and Miharu's group she would inform everyone of Aishia not being one the six high level high class spirit disappeared one thousand years ago and the mismatch about the development of her personality and her rank as a spirit, after that she would take Aishia with her to her dwelling and there she would teach her spirit's common sense, how to talk telepathically with Rio and how to hide the her existence's sign, something that Aishia ended failing to do fully due to her high quantity of power.

### LN Route

Dryas first appears when, village elders are talking with Rio. She materializes and then tells Rio that she senses a presence of humanoid spirit within him. Prior, to this Rio didn't had knowledge about his spirit contract with Aishia. Later, he recieves blessing from Dryas during spirit folk village festival. When Rio visits spirit folk village with Aishia, Dryas takes her time to educate Aishia about abilities that a humanoid spirit has. She teaches her about how to communicate telepathically with her contractor.

## Relationships

**Rio**: Friend. She gets along very well with Haruto. She is second to Ursula to find out Rio is contracted to a spirit, plus a high rank.

**Aishia**: Her friend. They are literally the only two humanoid spirits in the entire world. Dryas, as an experienced spirit claims the charge of learning Aishia all spirit must learn to be use for the contractor and herself.

**Orphia**: Her priestess and attendant. Dryas is quite fond of Oufia, when she is with her Dryas acts openly friendly surprising the young elf.

**Alma**: Her priestess and attendant.

**Sara**: Her priestess and attendant.

## Abilities

### Magical Abilities

As a Quasi High Ranking Spirit, Dryas is among the strongest spirits aside from the, being the Spirit Guaridan for the Seirei no Tami. She can grant blessings to spirits and humans, slightly increasing their Spirit Art aptitude and Odo amount, something that has become a custom each year.

* **Spirit Art:** As a Spirit, Dryas is among the most skilled users of Spirit Arts, her main attribute being the Earth Attribute.

### Intelligence

Befitting her age, Dryas is quite knowledgeable about Spirits and Spirit Arts, in addition to having great knowledge about plants and nature.