Editing Drycha (section)

==Warhammer Fantasy==
Her earliest lore established that Drycha was old even by [[dryad]] standards, predating the Elves leaving Ulthuan, and may have been one of the first dryads in existence in Warhammer. Originally Drycha held court amongst the roots of Addaivoch, the once-glorious creature known in later times as the Tree of Woe, which got that way after Morghur was killed there. While some believe that Drycha lost her mind when Morghur’s death tainted the ground of her glade, she was insular, capricious and malevolent for many long years before that.

She first came to prominence after the [[Wood Elves (Warhammer)|Wood Elves]] entered an alliance with [[Athel Loren]]. Drycha did not like it. [[Rage|AT ALL]]. In the early years of the alliance between the Elves and forest, Drycha was ever in evidence about the glades and groves, watching the Elves and examining their every action for any sign of betrayal. She rarely conversed with others, even the Dryads who served her as handmaidens, but instead chanted a mantra of the names of all those fellow spirits whom she believes have been failed by the Elves. It's unlikely her list would ever end because, despite her age, Drycha's memory was crystal-clear and new names were added with every battle between Athel Loren and the outside world ([[Dwarfs (Warhammer Fantasy)|Dwarven-level grudge]] there). She was in regular contact with Coeddil, a racist old [[Treeman|Treelord Ancient]] who was held in high regard by Drycha (like a how a member of [[/pol/]] would view a [[Nazi]]; Coeddil was like [[Grandpa Dreadnought]] but racist and more susceptible to [[Chaos|corruption]]). Coeddil had attempted a coup before by trying to stop Orion's rebirth, but he was thwarted and imprisoned by Ariel.

As time went on, Drycha’s activities became more violent and worrying to the Wood Elves. On the fringe of the great Drakwald Forest in the Empire, peasants told stories of the trees that come alive, hungry for blood. On the edge of the Forest of Arden in [[Bretonnia]], villagers gather only deadwood for their purposes, citing tales of other settlements found ruined and torn, the inhabitants left as scraps of tattered meat by the vengeance of the trees. To many, these events seem as senseless as they are apparently random, but if they are indeed the work of Drycha and her handmaidens, there must surely be a greater goal behind them than mere slaughter — though what that goal is remained to be seen. Popular consensus was that she was trying to break the alliance between the Bretonnians and the Wood Elves. Drycha did stage a coup during one of Orion's absences only to be thwarted by a Grail Knight. Drycha disappeared after that, her last act beforehand being to help break Coeddil out of the prison Ariel had bound him in.

In [[The End Times]], things really went sideways. Drycha went to ground with Coeddil, her head full of schemes of vengeance against the Wood Elves. To that end, she committed her first act of open treachery, captured the Fey Enchantress and gave her to [[Mannfred von Carstein]] to bring back [[Nagash]] (which is like using a nuke to stop a squatter from trashing your house). Then she just sat on her hands for awhile until the final battle for [[Ulthuan]], where the remaining High and Dark Elves were evacuated to Athel Loren. While there was no direct word about Drycha, the forest spirits were largely unhappy about this turn of events and you can bet that Drycha would've been at the head of any tree-klansman meeting. Drycha's hatred was so fierce that she was easy prey for the daemon prince [[Be'lakor]]. After swaying the cultists of Khaine, disillusioned about Malekith outlawing Khaine's religion in the wake of all that trouble the Widowmaker and [[Tyrion]] had caused, Be'lakor played on the forest spirits' hatred of outsiders. Coeddil was revealed to have been tainted by Chaos and embraced Be'lakor's plan, with Drycha following Coeddil's lead; had Drycha known the truth about Coeddil and Be'lakor she would've had nothing to do with them, but she couldn't see past her hatred.

So a host of Khainite elves and forest spirits attacked the unified elven army around the Oak of Ages; if you're wondering why Drycha fought alongside the Khanite elves despite her hatred of non forest-spirits and wasn't suspicious of them like she was before, your guess is as good as mine. Probably so she could kill as many as she could. At one point she got into a duel with Malekith, and did surprisingly well. While nearly everyone was distracted, Be'lakor went for the Oak of Ages. As the daemon prince sunk his claws into the wood the earth shook, sending everyone sprawling as the magical weave the tree maintained was corrupted. Drycha looked to the Oak of Ages and saw what the first daemon prince had done. In that instant, she realized the horrible truth of how she had been used. She had been manipulated by to give him a chance, and now it was going to try and destroy the world. Drycha immediately turned to stop the daemon prince, but was decapitated by Malekith, who knew that Drycha had been manipulated but deemed her too erratic and violent to trust.