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	Athasian treants are most commonly used to safeguard groves of trees of life, since conventional forests are pretty much unknown on Athas. Regardless, it bears mentioning that they are actually not that powerful by the standards of Athasian monsters - in fact, the water spirit is all around stronger and more dangerous, and the splatbooks even call this out! But, being rooted more firmly in the physical world makes Athasian treants far quicker to react to despoilers and [[Defiler (Dark Sun)\|Defilers]] than a spirit, so the tradeoff is useful.		Athasian treants are most commonly used to safeguard groves of trees of life, since conventional forests are pretty much unknown on Athas. Regardless, it bears mentioning that they are actually not that powerful by the standards of Athasian monsters - in fact, the water spirit is all around stronger and more dangerous, and the splatbooks even call this out! But, being rooted more firmly in the physical world makes Athasian treants far quicker to react to despoilers and [[Defiler (Dark Sun)\|Defilers]] than a spirit, so the tradeoff is useful.

	Compared to standard treants, Athasian treants are ''brutes'', doing a whopping 6d6 damage per strike from their branch-claws - for comparison's sake, an '''elder''' treant only does 4d6! They're capable of lifting up to 500 pounds, and can hurl a single boulder as a ranged attack each round, doing 4d6 damage on a hit. They're even more vulnerable to fire than regular treants, lacking the usual resistance to magical flames, but possess a natural affinity for water magic, which allows them to cast each of the following spells once per day: create water, purify food and drink, create food and water, lower water, reflecting pool, conjure elemental (water), part water, and transmute water to dust. Each of these is an innate ability of the Athasian treant and is cast without verbal, somatic, or material components at an initiative rating of 2. However, this spellcasting comes at the forfeiture of the standard treant ability ~~tro~~ animate trees... which is no great loss, since Athas doesn't really HAVE that many trees.		Compared to standard treants, Athasian treants are ''brutes'', doing a whopping 6d6 damage per strike from their branch-claws - for comparison's sake, an '''elder''' treant only does 4d6! They're capable of lifting up to 500 pounds, and can hurl a single boulder as a ranged attack each round, doing 4d6 damage on a hit. They're even more vulnerable to fire than regular treants, lacking the usual resistance to magical flames, but possess a natural affinity for water magic, which allows them to cast each of the following spells once per day: create water, purify food and drink, create food and water, lower water, reflecting pool, conjure elemental (water), part water, and transmute water to dust. Each of these is an innate ability of the Athasian treant and is cast without verbal, somatic, or material components at an initiative rating of 2. However, this spellcasting comes at the forfeiture of the standard treant ability to animate trees... which is no great loss, since Athas doesn't really HAVE that many trees.

	==Evil and Undead Treants==		==Evil and Undead Treants==

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	Undead treant MC Ravenloft.jpg\|Undead Treant		Undead treant MC Ravenloft.jpg\|Undead Treant
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	{{Topquote\|We come, we come with roll of drum: ta-runda runda runda ~~rom!~~		{{Topquote\|We come, we come with roll of drum: ta-runda runda runda rom!\|The Ent's Marching Song,The Two Towers}}

	~~We come, we come with horn and drum: ta-rūna rūna rūna~~ rom!\|The Ent's Marching Song,The Two Towers}}

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			{{Topquote\|We come, we come with roll of drum: ta-runda runda runda rom!

			We come, we come with horn and drum: ta-rūna rūna rūna rom!\|The Ent's Marching Song,The Two Towers}}


	The '''Treant''' is the [[Dungeons & Dragons]] depiction of the iconic [[treeman]] monster. Stolen shamelessly from the depiction by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]], [[Gary Gygax]] changed the name from "ent" to "treant" in order to avoid legal disputes, much the same way that [[hobbits]] were turned into [[halflings]].		The '''Treant''' is the [[Dungeons & Dragons]] depiction of the iconic [[treeman]] monster. Stolen shamelessly from the depiction by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]], [[Gary Gygax]] changed the name from "ent" to "treant" in order to avoid legal disputes, much the same way that [[hobbits]] were turned into [[halflings]].

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	The overlap between "treant" and "killer tree" is rather considerable, particularly in the days of [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]], with such creatures as Black Willows, Dark Trees, and Norans all called out as tree-monsters that are often mistaken for treants by the unwary or unwise. However, AD&D is also home to a number of a variant treants... most of which, strangely, are evil.		The overlap between "treant" and "killer tree" is rather considerable, particularly in the days of [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]], with such creatures as Black Willows, Dark Trees, and Norans all called out as tree-monsters that are often mistaken for treants by the unwary or unwise. However, AD&D is also home to a number of a variant treants... most of which, strangely, are evil.

	[[Dungeon Magazine]] #61 introduced ~~the concept of~~ the Greater Treant, which is basically a bigger, stronger, more magical version of the treant. It has never appeared in more official sourcebooks.		[[Dungeon Magazine]] #61 introduced the Greater Treant, which is basically a bigger, stronger, more magical version of the treant. It has never appeared in more official sourcebooks.

	==Dark Sun==		==Dark Sun==

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	Although usually typed as Plants, for obvious reasons, Treants have a tradition of being associated with fey creatures, mostly because those creatures are also typically portrayed as being close to nature and sworn to its defense. Treants were even a playable race in the Basic D&D supplement "Tall Tales of the Wee Folk", a splatbook dedicated to fey PC races.		Although usually typed as Plants, for obvious reasons, Treants have a tradition of being associated with fey creatures, mostly because those creatures are also typically portrayed as being close to nature and sworn to its defense. Treants were even a playable race in the Basic D&D supplement "Tall Tales of the Wee Folk", a splatbook dedicated to fey PC races.

	==The Family Tree==		=The Family Tree=
	The overlap between "treant" and "killer tree" is rather considerable, particularly in the days of [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]], with such creatures as Black Willows, Dark Trees, and Norans all called out as tree-monsters that are often mistaken for treants by the unwary or unwise. However, AD&D is also home to a number of a variant treants... most of which, strangely, are evil.		The overlap between "treant" and "killer tree" is rather considerable, particularly in the days of [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]], with such creatures as Black Willows, Dark Trees, and Norans all called out as tree-monsters that are often mistaken for treants by the unwary or unwise. However, AD&D is also home to a number of a variant treants... most of which, strangely, are evil.

	[[Dungeon Magazine]] #61 introduced the concept of the Greater Treant, which is basically a bigger, stronger, more magical version of the treant. It has never appeared in more official sourcebooks.		[[Dungeon Magazine]] #61 introduced the concept of the Greater Treant, which is basically a bigger, stronger, more magical version of the treant. It has never appeared in more official sourcebooks.

	===Dark Sun===		==Dark Sun==
	The treants of [[Dark Sun\|Athas]] are highly unusual in that they are not natural creatures... well, "natural" by the standards of a D&D world. Instead, they are a kind of [[druid]]ic golem, created when a druid successfully entreats a Spirit of the Land (water subtype) to enter a mystically prepared Tree of Life and bind with it, creating an enchanted sentinel set to protect a specific area. The ritual involves the spells ''Liveoak'', ''Reincarnate'' and ''Tree of Life'', and is not undertaken lightly; when the water spirit takes up residence in the tree of life, the water source originally inhabited by that spirit quickly dries up and disappears.		The treants of [[Dark Sun\|Athas]] are highly unusual in that they are not natural creatures... well, "natural" by the standards of a D&D world. Instead, they are a kind of [[druid]]ic golem, created when a druid successfully entreats a Spirit of the Land (water subtype) to enter a mystically prepared Tree of Life and bind with it, creating an enchanted sentinel set to protect a specific area. The ritual involves the spells ''Liveoak'', ''Reincarnate'' and ''Tree of Life'', and is not undertaken lightly; when the water spirit takes up residence in the tree of life, the water source originally inhabited by that spirit quickly dries up and disappears.

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	Compared to standard treants, Athasian treants are ''brutes'', doing a whopping 6d6 damage per strike from their branch-claws - for comparison's sake, an '''elder''' treant only does 4d6! They're capable of lifting up to 500 pounds, and can hurl a single boulder as a ranged attack each round, doing 4d6 damage on a hit. They're even more vulnerable to fire than regular treants, lacking the usual resistance to magical flames, but possess a natural affinity for water magic, which allows them to cast each of the following spells once per day: create water, purify food and drink, create food and water, lower water, reflecting pool, conjure elemental (water), part water, and transmute water to dust. Each of these is an innate ability of the Athasian treant and is cast without verbal, somatic, or material components at an initiative rating of 2. However, this spellcasting comes at the forfeiture of the standard treant ability tro animate trees... which is no great loss, since Athas doesn't really HAVE that many trees.		Compared to standard treants, Athasian treants are ''brutes'', doing a whopping 6d6 damage per strike from their branch-claws - for comparison's sake, an '''elder''' treant only does 4d6! They're capable of lifting up to 500 pounds, and can hurl a single boulder as a ranged attack each round, doing 4d6 damage on a hit. They're even more vulnerable to fire than regular treants, lacking the usual resistance to magical flames, but possess a natural affinity for water magic, which allows them to cast each of the following spells once per day: create water, purify food and drink, create food and water, lower water, reflecting pool, conjure elemental (water), part water, and transmute water to dust. Each of these is an innate ability of the Athasian treant and is cast without verbal, somatic, or material components at an initiative rating of 2. However, this spellcasting comes at the forfeiture of the standard treant ability tro animate trees... which is no great loss, since Athas doesn't really HAVE that many trees.

	===Evil and Undead Treants===		==Evil and Undead Treants==
	One of the subtler themes of [[Gothic Horror]] can be summed up as "Nature is Evil". As a result, the treants of [[Ravenloft]] are uniformly malicious. Even a treant brought into the [[Demiplane of Dread]] from another world will soon find itself infected by the evil energies of the demiplane and corrupted into a murderous parody of its former self.		One of the subtler themes of [[Gothic Horror]] can be summed up as "Nature is Evil". As a result, the treants of [[Ravenloft]] are uniformly malicious. Even a treant brought into the [[Demiplane of Dread]] from another world will soon find itself infected by the evil energies of the demiplane and corrupted into a murderous parody of its former self.

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	Alone amongst the treant variants listed on this page, Evil and Undead Treants made it into [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]].		Alone amongst the treant variants listed on this page, Evil and Undead Treants made it into [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]].

	===Black Treant===		==Black Treant==
	Formally known as '''Lyrannikin''', the so-called "Black Treants" of [[Greyhawk]] are not a species as such, but rather are treants who have been spiritually corrupted and turned to the path of evil. his happens in a variety of ways: by magical change; the heart of a treant becoming rotted by blight; or in the case of very ancient treants, a festering hatred of those who destroy old forests, so that the treant becomes consumed by a desire for revenge that becomes indiscriminate. They are a subject of deep pity amongst true treants, who usually try to capture them and cure them of their wickedness where possible. Their rage turns them into savage killers, sleeping only in short snatches of restless slumber driven to constantly move, hunt, and kill.		Formally known as '''Lyrannikin''', the so-called "Black Treants" of [[Greyhawk]] are not a species as such, but rather are treants who have been spiritually corrupted and turned to the path of evil. his happens in a variety of ways: by magical change; the heart of a treant becoming rotted by blight; or in the case of very ancient treants, a festering hatred of those who destroy old forests, so that the treant becomes consumed by a desire for revenge that becomes indiscriminate. They are a subject of deep pity amongst true treants, who usually try to capture them and cure them of their wickedness where possible. Their rage turns them into savage killers, sleeping only in short snatches of restless slumber driven to constantly move, hunt, and kill.

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	It seems highly likely that the [[Scarlet Brotherhood]] has captured treants and is experimenting with the use of blights that will turn the treants to evil while not affecting their health or combat ability (no reductions to damage dice rolls). These specially-bred lyrannikin may well be being placed within the Menowood to attack the defenders of Sunndi who spy in the eastern margin of that wood; there have been several reports of young lyrannikin (an unusual occurrence) from that wood during the years of the Greyhawk Wars.		It seems highly likely that the [[Scarlet Brotherhood]] has captured treants and is experimenting with the use of blights that will turn the treants to evil while not affecting their health or combat ability (no reductions to damage dice rolls). These specially-bred lyrannikin may well be being placed within the Menowood to attack the defenders of Sunndi who spy in the eastern margin of that wood; there have been several reports of young lyrannikin (an unusual occurrence) from that wood during the years of the Greyhawk Wars.

	==Treant PCs for BECMI==		=Treant PCs for BECMI=
	Ironically, the treant isn't the biggest or most powerful monster race-class in BECMI - that title actually goes to the [[sphinx]]. They have a 13 level racial class, starting at level -3 to represent the need to "mature" to be on par with a standard monster specimen of their race.		Ironically, the treant isn't the biggest or most powerful monster race-class in BECMI - that title actually goes to the [[sphinx]]. They have a 13 level racial class, starting at level -3 to represent the need to "mature" to be on par with a standard monster specimen of their race.

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	Each subsequent level costs 300,000 EXP and grants +3 hit points.		Each subsequent level costs 300,000 EXP and grants +3 hit points.

	==Gallery==		=Gallery=
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	Treant 1e.jpg\|1e		Treant 1e.jpg\|1e

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The Family Tree

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	[[Dungeon Magazine]] #61 introduced the concept of the Greater Treant, which is basically a bigger, stronger, more magical version of the treant. It has never appeared in more official sourcebooks.		[[Dungeon Magazine]] #61 introduced the concept of the Greater Treant, which is basically a bigger, stronger, more magical version of the treant. It has never appeared in more official sourcebooks.

	===~~Athasian Treant~~===		===Dark Sun===
	The treants of [[Dark Sun\|Athas]] are highly unusual in that they are not natural creatures... well, "natural" by the standards of a D&D world. Instead, they are a kind of [[druid]]ic golem, created when a druid successfully entreats a Spirit of the Land (water subtype) to enter a mystically prepared Tree of Life and bind with it, creating an enchanted sentinel set to protect a specific area. The ritual involves the spells ''Liveoak'', ''Reincarnate'' and ''Tree of Life'', and is not undertaken lightly; when the water spirit takes up residence in the tree of life, the water source originally inhabited by that spirit quickly dries up and disappears.		The treants of [[Dark Sun\|Athas]] are highly unusual in that they are not natural creatures... well, "natural" by the standards of a D&D world. Instead, they are a kind of [[druid]]ic golem, created when a druid successfully entreats a Spirit of the Land (water subtype) to enter a mystically prepared Tree of Life and bind with it, creating an enchanted sentinel set to protect a specific area. The ritual involves the spells ''Liveoak'', ''Reincarnate'' and ''Tree of Life'', and is not undertaken lightly; when the water spirit takes up residence in the tree of life, the water source originally inhabited by that spirit quickly dries up and disappears.

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	===Black Treant===		===Black Treant===
	Formally known as '''Lyrannikin''', the so-called "Black Treants" of [[Greyhawk~~\|Oerth~~]] are not a species as such, but rather are treants who have been spiritually corrupted and turned to the path of evil. his happens in a variety of ways: by magical change; the heart of a treant becoming rotted by blight; or in the case of very ancient treants, a festering hatred of those who destroy old forests, so that the treant becomes consumed by a desire for revenge that becomes indiscriminate. They are a subject of deep pity amongst true treants, who usually try to capture them and cure them of their wickedness where possible. Their rage turns them into savage killers, sleeping only in short snatches of restless slumber driven to constantly move, hunt, and kill.		Formally known as '''Lyrannikin''', the so-called "Black Treants" of [[Greyhawk]] are not a species as such, but rather are treants who have been spiritually corrupted and turned to the path of evil. his happens in a variety of ways: by magical change; the heart of a treant becoming rotted by blight; or in the case of very ancient treants, a festering hatred of those who destroy old forests, so that the treant becomes consumed by a desire for revenge that becomes indiscriminate. They are a subject of deep pity amongst true treants, who usually try to capture them and cure them of their wickedness where possible. Their rage turns them into savage killers, sleeping only in short snatches of restless slumber driven to constantly move, hunt, and kill.

	Roughly 30% of all lyrannikin suffer some horrible blight that corrupts and twists their woody flesh; the bark rots from their hides, their limbs decay and hang limply, and [[fungus]] wells up from within their cracks, crevices and recesses. Blighted lyrannikin suffer greatly from their decay; their lifespans are shortened (though, admittedly, it tends to be elderly treants who most vulnerable to the blights in the first place - the official ratios for blighted lyrannikin are given as 20% of younger, 30% of middle-aged, and 50% of elder), their blows weakened, and their ability to photosynthesize impeded, forcing them to substitute by bathing their roots in the blood of slaughtered creatures. The only dubious benefit is that blighted lyrannikin don't suffer the traditional treant vulnerability to fire, as their diseased timber is too soaked with wet rot and mold to catch light easily. Such blights aren't incurable, but the effort isn't easy.		Roughly 30% of all lyrannikin suffer some horrible blight that corrupts and twists their woody flesh; the bark rots from their hides, their limbs decay and hang limply, and [[fungus]] wells up from within their cracks, crevices and recesses. Blighted lyrannikin suffer greatly from their decay; their lifespans are shortened (though, admittedly, it tends to be elderly treants who most vulnerable to the blights in the first place - the official ratios for blighted lyrannikin are given as 20% of younger, 30% of middle-aged, and 50% of elder), their blows weakened, and their ability to photosynthesize impeded, forcing them to substitute by bathing their roots in the blood of slaughtered creatures. The only dubious benefit is that blighted lyrannikin don't suffer the traditional treant vulnerability to fire, as their diseased timber is too soaked with wet rot and mold to catch light easily. Such blights aren't incurable, but the effort isn't easy.

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	The most famous of all the evil treants in Ravenloft is '''Blackroot'''; once a sacred [[druid]]ic oak tree in Tepest, he was ritually corrupted by the Sisters Mindefisk, the [[hag]] [[darklord]]s of that domain, turning him into an abomination poised to take the realm for his own should the hags fall.		The most famous of all the evil treants in Ravenloft is '''Blackroot'''; once a sacred [[druid]]ic oak tree in Tepest, he was ritually corrupted by the Sisters Mindefisk, the [[hag]] [[darklord]]s of that domain, turning him into an abomination poised to take the realm for his own should the hags fall.

	An even greater abomination than the standard evil treant is the '''[[undead]]''' treant; an evil treant that has refused to accept the end of its life and instead of deciding to go out in a final wild orgy of violence and death, has transformed itself into a kind of [[lich]]plant to continue its evil. Distinguishable by their lack of leaves and lusterless, almost brittle-looking bark, undead treants lose the ability to animate trees, but possess an instinctive command of [[druid]]ic magic (typically having the equivalent of 2-6 levels in that class), can extrude blood-sucking roots to drain victims dry, and wield a number of the typical undead resiliences... however, they are also immune to the effects of sunlight, holy water, and the [[Turn Undead]] abilities of both [[cleric]]s and [[paladin]]s, as well as being immune to spells that specifically control either undead or ~~lants~~.s		An even greater abomination than the standard evil treant is the '''[[undead]]''' treant; an evil treant that has refused to accept the end of its life and instead of deciding to go out in a final wild orgy of violence and death, has transformed itself into a kind of [[lich]]plant to continue its evil. Distinguishable by their lack of leaves and lusterless, almost brittle-looking bark, undead treants lose the ability to animate trees, but possess an instinctive command of [[druid]]ic magic (typically having the equivalent of 2-6 levels in that class), can extrude blood-sucking roots to drain victims dry, and wield a number of the typical undead resiliences... however, they are also immune to the effects of sunlight, holy water, and the [[Turn Undead]] abilities of both [[cleric]]s and [[paladin]]s, as well as being immune to spells that specifically control either undead or plants.

	Such is the malevolence of treants of Ravenloft that undead treants are not outcasts, but instead regarded as respected, even revered leaders amongst the circles of their still-living counterparts.		Such is the malevolence of treants of Ravenloft that undead treants are not outcasts, but instead regarded as respected, even revered leaders amongst the circles of their still-living counterparts.

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	{{Topquote\|We come, we come with roll of drum: ta-runda runda runda ~~rom!~~		{{Topquote\|We come, we come with roll of drum: ta-runda runda runda rom!\|The Ent's Marching Song,The Two Towers}}

	~~We come, we come with horn and drum: ta-rūna rūna rūna~~ rom!\|The Ent's Marching Song,The Two Towers}}