2)I must agree that futher research into the Aldryami must be made, not so much
into their nature but there physical aspect. I am confused because the physical
representation of the Aldryami has moved from the 1st ed. Tolkien footing;
frex illistration of the "human w/- pointy ears p70.RQ 1st ed. or the body
composition
description as "meaty vegetable matter" in para.6 page 10 Troll eating
habits UZ Lore
Troll pack. to "members of the vegetable kingdom" p252 RQ 3ed. with backing
illist.
in WF (reprinting) page 18.
I love the plant concept ( & the blow gun armed idear(doubles as a spear?))
But this does raise a few fundamental questions, photosynethsis (already
raised,comments?),
Geophagy (will eating dirt sustain them?), Plant attributes (green wood is awful
resilent(natural armor more hit points?)), Poison tollerance (one man's,
another's fertilizer)
I don't know about a pruning response for fertility,how about in relation to
day length?
(does gloranthan day length vary? I don't think so scrap the above.)
3)Nick Effingham asked about being linked to a specific tree and what would
happen to an
Aldryami if it was destoryed? I did some quick research and it seemed to me
that the
elder races book of elder secrets implied that the plant type of the
Aldryami was more
of a clan identifier, the longer their "TYPE" of tree lived the longer they did.
Dryads were bound to a specific tree but IMHO "ELVES"(god I hate that
word!!) were
free to come and go as they please.
4)I've been experimenting with my group having trouble with a band of Aldryami
who have renounced their vegetarianism and become carnivore, on the grounds that
eating plants reduces the num. of plants. (declared war and dinner against
all plant eaters).
Chaos taint? Splinter religion? I think it could lead somewhere interesting!
And now since I've consumed so much valuable time, I'm off. May the light of the Goddess guide and consoule you, all hail the the reaching moon!
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