Dryad

Dryads are a group of plant-based humanoid species, first sprouting in the simpler Plains and Forest biomes, but have since then proliferated out all across the world. Since spreading out across the world, there have been evolutionary divides where different species have adapted to their environments, resulting in different cultures and diverging biologies.

Creation
Dryads are historically said to first be born from the remains of a burnt forest. While burning, the trees called out to the nature gods and goddesses, and out of determination and spite, conjured enough magical energy to be reborn as more humanoid creatures. These proto-Dyrads, now known as the Dytrae, would be the ancestors of what are now the modern Dryads.

Forest Dyrads - Dyrii
The first descendants from the original Dytrae the Dyrii never moved outside of their comfortable zone of the Forests and Plains, and therefore are the closest biologically speaking. Dyrii like most Dryads, are a peaceful people, and live in small tribes of close familial bonds. Their diets often consist of tree sap and different forest berries, and are incapable of ingesting meat. Their plant biology are closest to that of trees, and have lush green skin. Dyrii are around 6' in height. They have long lifespans, living for several hundred years before Returning into plants.

Mountain Dyrads - Tellyl
Tellyl hail from the high mountains and have white, snow like tendrils covering their skin in order to hide from predators. They live in small communities comprised of hunters and cultivators. While they do not eat meat, they control the local population of animals in order to not be overwhelmed from predators and competition for plants. Their diets consist of berries and certain, poisonous shrubs. However, after generations of eating aforementioned poisonous shrubs, Tellyl have developed an immunity and a poisonous quality of their own. Tellyl are often similar height to Dyrii also around 6'. Tellyl have very long lifespans, with the eldest of the species living thousands of years before Returning.

Ocean Dyrads - Seilhei
Most Seilhei live in large communities in coral reefs, and have a large variety of bright colours that blend perfectly with their environment. However, inside the centre of coral reefs inhabited by colonies of Seilhei is a large circle of bleached coral. This area is a farm of coral where Seilhei will eat. This process occurs by Seilhei biting into the coral and draining the coral of the algae that give the nutrients coral desire. Seilhei are smaller than most other Dyrads, around 5' in height. Seilhei have short lifespans, living up to around 200 years.

Mushroom Dyrads - Shieliee
Where death is, Shieliee will follow. Either alone or in small groups, these bite-size (4') Dyrads will often sprout colonies of mushrooms and sleep. Like fungi, they absorb nutrients from decaying organisms. Shieliee often do not make social connections and are solitary creatures. On giant mushroom islands, large colonies of up to hundreds of Shieliee can be found, living off the nutrients that mushrooms provide. Shieliee tend to accidentally spread around in unintentional places when their spores spread through the wind. They have the shortest lifespans out of any Dyrad, living upwards of 100 years.