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kyonides · Joined: 28 Aug 2008 Posts: 301

Well, I was thinking that I only have 2 mystical creatures in my conworld, where the twin kingdoms of Alirdyse and Layse are located, and they are the sand golems - Kleureunon or Kleurtheusos - and the vampires - Gerhierkon - (a ridiculous version of them). Lately I was thinking I needed something else, something less fleshy... and now I'd like to present this weird version of the trents or tree-people, the Anseunon (wood-like). Since I know they are common in RPG'ish books like LOTR and in games like (the infamous) D&D, I wanted to make them more cruel. Even so they are mindless beings that don't move at all whenever they are planted in good soil and blah, blah, blah, but things change if the land is burnt or it doesn't have all the required nutrients they need to survive.

At this point they don't seem special, well, they might not be special at all, but they can get some nutrients from another source, I mean, from animals and even humans or vampires or something like that. How do they get that from such "intelligent creatures"? Well, they have two ways to achieve their goal.

1. They produce sap that might attract some idiots, of course, this might also kill them if no human or animal lives nearby and they can't replenish it...
2. They forget about the bait and just focus on attacking the victim when it's the right time...

At the end they just use their roots or even their branches if they're desperate to get the nutrients. Sometimes they might even let some of the branches fall down to block the pass / exit or they get rid of them on purpose so the branches hit the animal or the human thus keeping their source of "food" safe. Then they'd make a last effort to make the roots grow and stab the victim or wrap it....

So, what do you think about this tree monster of mine? Is it different from any other tree-like being? Or did I just make a noob's mistake (once again)?
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eldin raigmore · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 12:31 am Post subject:

IRL there are plants that are "vampiric" on other plants. Mostly these are vines "vampiric" on trees; but some are trees "vampiric" on trees, etc.
Most climbing vines are more symbiotic, or at least commensal, with the trees they climb on, than parasitic; but many are at least partially parasitic.
In swamps and other locations where the soil is poor in certain nutrients that occur in animals, "carnivorous plants" have evolved. These include sundews and Venus's fly-traps, IIANM.
A phenomenon known as a "vegetable caterpillar" occurs when a caterpillar eats certain things. Mostly, I think, these are fungus-spores or parts of a fungus that can "regenerate" a whole fungus. However some are probably spores, or even seeds, of plants; probably gymnosperms like mosses and ferns are likelier to do this than plants with seeds, though.
The same thing can happen to ants, AIUI.

Plants don't move themselves from one place to another; but they do move. Sunflowers and other plants (even grass on a golf green!) can bend depending on the direction of the sunlight. And, of course, flowers open and close (as any floral clock will show). And some carnivorous plants can even move certain parts more rapidly than some animals can move; witness the leaves of a Venus's fly-trap.
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StrangeMagic · Admin Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Posts: 640

I believe IRL means "in real life", IIANM is "if I am not mistaken" and "AIUI" is "as I understand it".

But anyway, your tree creatures are quite interesting indeed. ^_^ I like them, do you think that they're going to have a language like the Ents?

kyonides · Joined: 28 Aug 2008 Posts: 301

That's the problem, if they do speak, then what would make them so different from the Ents? Nothing... I don't really want them to speak, instead they'd communicate by means of branch movements and changes in the coloration of their leaves. (I don't think this could let them "speak" a complex language, though.)
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StrangeMagic · Admin Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Posts: 640

Ah true, it would be interesting to see something of a Tree Sign Language.... intriguing. Razz

Perhaps you could exlpore that? Or would their be any use of them talking in the first place?

eldin raigmore · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 7:14 pm Post subject:

Hemicomputer · Joined: 04 Feb 2008 Posts: 610 Location: Calgary, Alberta

It's no problem if you use acronyms, I'll remember to google them before asking.
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kyonides · Joined: 28 Aug 2008 Posts: 301