Ents (Species)

Sentient manlike creatures made of wood. They passively consume the life of plant forms around them for sustinence and growth. An ent can go 3 weeks without leeching life before it loses life and must be revived. Life can be passively absorbed from nearby plants or it can be planted with bone meal or fertilizer for a time. Ents  can bond with people and possibly generate new mosses by absorbing the life from a willing organic life form. They absorb by growing fine vinelike roots into the organism and taking in life.

Ent Training
 * Ents can be domesticated by feeding them dead animals. After a small bond is built an ent will follow it's trainer and take very simple tasks occaisonally. With active training and eventually a bonding ents will become more loyal and understand more complex instructions and ideas.

Ent Lifecycle:


 * Small sapling or seed implanted in area rich with life. The sapling drains the plant's energy, moisture, and minerals, and if needed mass. It grows to a height of 12" then grows legs arms and knot. Then it sheds it's tie to the ground, becomes mobile and sentient.

Height: Mature ents: 18-22"
 * Adolescent ents speed 35 feet. They are open, barely begining to form intelligence, and are easily trained. Their personalities and abilities are determined by the symbiotic relationships they develop with different mosses. Ents also breed at this age. Ents are slow learners, but can be taught complicated tasks. After 24-36 seasons they reach 17" and stop for a rest somewhere in the wild. They will rehook into the ground and rest for 4 weeks and awaken mature
 * Mature Ents speed 25 feet. They prefer steady lifestyles and will not adveture after their rest. Many mature ents work industrious jobs and fuel the economy while many integrate with a tree and become a Tree knot.
 * Tree knots are the knot of an ent grown and attached to a tree. They are believed to hold the minds and memories of ents. They also act as hubs for mosses in the area. Knots will continue to grow inside as long as it has enough attached trees to support it.

Adolescent ents: 12-17"