Patious is a
Dryad, born from the forest herself, she is different from the sister of the vale, and is closer to a spirit of nature, as are drayds from Three Barrel Wood.
Characteristics
Physical features
Mental traits
Patious is antagonistic, hostile, and suspicious at first sight. Patious usually lure those who enter her domain deep within the forest where adventurers' movement is limited.
Abilities
Patious keeps her distance from adventurers to have them guessing where she will appear using her tree stride ability.
Her Deadvines gang up on the character who can do the least amount of damage in a round. Since they aren't tacticians, they assume this to be the smallest person. The objective is to strangle and kill them. They have no sense of self-preservation and do not change tactics until someone is dead.
History
The Three Barrel Wood is and old forest that few enter. It stands just a few miles from the nearby Verdan city of
Merrick, but the city’s inhabitants know better than to enter the woods. Fables, legends, and stories abound of a mystical force that comes to life when the forest is threatened.
But that doesn’t stop opportunists from taking more than their fair share from the verdant Three Barrel Wood.
Just a few years ago, a lowly acolyte of the White Tower in Merrick ventured to a magical spot within the forest. Reading from an ancient book beyond her skills, she recited a ritual and cut five small branches from a specific tree named in the tome. The acolyte grabbed the branches, and rushed from the forest. The tree, incapable of doing anything in the face of such
Magic, died shortly after.
And that’s when the troubles started.
No one knows what the acolyte wanted the branches for. She was murdered shortly after in the streets of Merrick, the book and branches long gone. But the spirit of Three Barrel Wood would not ignore what happened. She birthed five dryads that day, one for each missing branch. The first, she named Patious and gave her the most strength. The others became her children and servants in her quest to destroy Merrick.
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