Wilden
3 variants
When the corruption of the Far Realm began to seep into the natural world, nature itself answered. The Wilden woke fully formed from the ancient groves of the Feywild — fey guardians grown of bark, vine, and primal spirit, sent to hunt down aberrant horrors wherever they take root. Newcomers to the mortal world, they are curious, wary, and fierce all at once: a race still discovering what it means to be a people rather than a purpose.
Misguided Guardians
The Wilden crossed into the Prime Material plane to defend it, hunting the corrupting influence of the Far Realm that spread after the Spellplague ravaged the land. But centuries of seclusion in the deep forests have left their mark: many Wilden turn feral and animalistic, growing xenophobic, territorial, and covetous of the lands they guard. The most misguided among them forget their purpose entirely and ally with monstrous creatures such as fomorians — becoming the very danger they were born to fight.
Plant-like Fey
A Wilden is a spirit of nature given a walking, thinking body. Bark plates cover their skin, their bones are living hardwood, and vines and flowering tendrils grow where a human would have hair. Within each Wilden dwells a nature spirit, and that spirit shapes its host — a Wilden’s features shift and regrow to reflect the purpose the spirit pursues, so no two Wilden ever look quite the same.
Dangerous and Easy to Manipulate
For all their power, the Wilden know little of how to build civilization, and that innocence makes them dangerous — to outsiders who stumble into their territory, and to themselves. Cunning individuals find Wilden easy to mislead, and more than one tribe has been turned toward evil by a honeyed voice. What the Wilden do understand is strength: they respect power and demand tests of skill from strangers — trials as trivial as a wrestling match or as deadly as slaying a nearby green dragon. Those who pass earn the tribe’s lasting respect and friendship.
When the corruption of the Far Realm began to seep into the natural world, nature itself answered. The Wilden woke fully formed from the ancient groves of the Feywild — fey guardians grown of bark, vine, and primal spirit, sent to hunt down aberrant horrors wherever they take root. Newcomers to the mortal world, they are curious, wary, and fierce all at once: a race still discovering what it means to be a people rather than a purpose.
Misguided Guardians
The Wilden crossed into the Prime Material plane to defend it, hunting the corrupting influence of the Far Realm that spread after the Spellplague ravaged the land. But centuries of seclusion in the deep forests have left their mark: many Wilden turn feral and animalistic, growing xenophobic, territorial, and covetous of the lands they guard. The most misguided among them forget their purpose entirely and ally with monstrous creatures such as fomorians — becoming the very danger they were born to fight.
Plant-like Fey
A Wilden is a spirit of nature given a walking, thinking body. Bark plates cover their skin, their bones are living hardwood, and vines and flowering tendrils grow where a human would have hair. Within each Wilden dwells a nature spirit, and that spirit shapes its host — a Wilden’s features shift and regrow to reflect the purpose the spirit pursues, so no two Wilden ever look quite the same.
Dangerous and Easy to Manipulate
For all their power, the Wilden know little of how to build civilization, and that innocence makes them dangerous — to outsiders who stumble into their territory, and to themselves. Cunning individuals find Wilden easy to mislead, and more than one tribe has been turned toward evil by a honeyed voice. What the Wilden do understand is strength: they respect power and demand tests of skill from strangers — trials as trivial as a wrestling match or as deadly as slaying a nearby green dragon. Those who pass earn the tribe’s lasting respect and friendship.
Traits
Nature Spirit
Your appearance is always plantlike but the type of Nature Spirit that inhabits you changes your appearance.
Nature Spirit
| 1D12 | Nature Spirit | Appearance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Great Cat | You have a lithe form with padded paws and claws on your hands and a proud if inexpressive face. |
| 2 | Wise Owl | You have talons on your feet and very thin, wiry limbs, and large eyes that seem to see everything. |
| 3 | Mighty Bear | You are bulky with large hands and feet and your leafage resembles bristling fur. |
| 4 | Quick Fish | You are covered in interlocking waxy leafs that have the appearance of vibrantly green scales and you have a long line of interlocking saplings on your spine forming a fin. |
| 5 | Hardy Moose | The gnarled wood on your head grows expansibly to become majestic horns and your feet end in hard cloven hooves. |
| 6 | Sly Viper | You grow a long tail made of vines that trails behind you and two large fangs made of hardwood jut from your upper jaw. |
| 7 | Humble Fungus | Your body appears to have been grown in hardy layers with your head being topped with a distinctive cap much like a mushroom. |
| 8 | Solemn Oak | You are about a foot taller than other Wilden and your bark is much thicker and rougher with your face appearing aged no matter how far along you are in your life cycle. |
| 9 | Beautiful Flower | A multitude of flowers that are native to the area they have most recently been in spring up on their shoulders and backs and they have the kindliest and more approachable face of the Wilden. |
| 10 | Creeping Vine | Thick and dense vines interweave forming a cloak and hood and hide most of the form of this mysterious Wilden. |
| 11 | Lush Foliage | Thick carpets of leaves and ferns cover every inch of you, forming a living garden. |
| 12 | Noxious Weed | Vile weeds sprout from your withered form as dead eyes that seem to gaze out with hatred on a world. |