Quote:Rakhasa wrote:Well, in the source where I got the name "Bloodoak" (the "Edge Chronicles" series of YA novels, for any curious folks), the tree is rigid, but in a symbiotic relationship with motile herbaceous vines: the tree feeds the vines, and the vines act as fast-moving limbs for the tree.
Well, actually I did not plan to have the trees walk (they do suffle something and change places, but only when no one is looking), they "hunt" moving their branches, so are easy to avoid. They could eat humas or deer, but are unlikely to actually catch then. The vines and the "pretty flowers" of the forest are more dangerous, but to small to really hurt humans
But on second though... I so am adding Old Man Tree somewere lost in the middle, movile (and fast), huge, dark-barked, full of thorns, dripping blood red sap, with fruits than look like human skulls. It may also be the only vegetarian blood tree in the entire forest, not than any of the Park Rangers Heavy Armor division will ever tell the tourists, of course.
HRogge Wrote:Yes, the dryad as a biomod sounds like a much better idea. Even if this "floating tree" doesn't work (a floating tree sounds "unnatural" for a dryad), maybe her dependency on the tree can be relaxed so she can leave it for a few hours...In the same source, cut wood (and presumably the live trees) of Bloodoak and a few other species is actively buoyant. (They become moreso while burning, but that's not an option to a dryad.) If the dryad remains able to digest meat, (in the admittedly remote event that she's a fan of the Edge Chronicles) the correspondence is clear, and it's more a case of boosting her tree's natural buoyancy such that it lifts off. Flying carnivorous 'scurefen dryads!