@@fubar9629 Yes, they can but take account that due to their power it would be a very high level campaign, regular characters would start with levels above the treants HD to compensate it's special abilities, so while you play a treant other player could be playing with a druid able to transform into one.
Treant: Ahh, Spring! Life is good. Treant: Ahh, Summer! Life is very good. Treant: Meh, Autumn! Life is getting boring. Treant: Hey fucking Lumberjacks down there, this tree over there is still healthy and growing!!
10:52 "The lore says that this method of communication is extremely slow" Tree beard: "it takes a long time to say anything in old entish.. and... We never say anything... Unless.. it is worth... Taking.. a very long time to say..."
I feel the same way. I wish he and AJ Picket would do a collab video, not necessarily lore but perhaps a story or commentary on a vs. battle of similar creatures where both pick a favorite and debate who would come out on top or why they would come to a draw.
@@chiefmike9493 there already is one dude! Also if for your campaing you want some more infor on how to arm your enemies look at shadiversitys videos on fantady re armed and less known historical weapons
-"when a treant dies it becomes a normal tree"._ What would happens if someone use the Awaken spell? Will "resurrect" the treant? Will this be a new being? A lesser/younger version of the same? Love this Lore vídeos, but almost always I ends up with more questions that answers.
Probably would be closer to a reincarnation of a Treant and would be a new Treant. The necromancy-based resurrection spells I don't think specify what type(s) of creature(s) you can use it for. I'd say that a Treant is a creature, so that you should simply use those type of spells and that the Awaken spell wouldn't work that way... on a "deceased" Treant. :P
@@alexboyer6691 Actually beasts and trees, but it is a 5th level spell plus costs at least 1,000gp worth of components. So for most campaigns... that's a lot of coin and is nearing the cost of the spell 'Resurrection' anyway. Personally as a DM, if it mattered that much to you to go through all this trouble, I'd probably allow it. :)
@@alexboyer6691 the spell description for awaken specifies beasts OR plants. However it would just be an animated tree with int of 10. It wouldnt be a true treant.
Had an area of one of my campaigns called "The Endless Forest". It was a massive (several hundred square mile) forest made up of mostly Treants, living shrubs, and other awakened plants. With of course a super ancient (30K year old) Treant/Dragon in the center of it. It was called the Endless Forest not just because of its size. But due to how dense the forest itself was, almost no sunlight reached the forest floor, instead lit up by the treants fungus which had evolved to have bioluminescence. The near total darkness combined with the ever shifting and moving treants made getting lost in this forest a near certainty, and would make the forest seem endless. The way we played out navigating it was they would pick a direction they would attempt to travel in, and then roll to see if they went that way or if they got lost and went the wrong way. It ended with the party helping out "Reythmedah"(dovahzul for "tree like hunter") defeat a dracolich who was attempting to corrupt the Forrest and use it as both a lair and means to build an army.
I feel like a good addition to that setting would be treants who came from dryad trees, this allows the dryad to move about and if another fey creature lived in the boughs of the tree portion they could form a mobile coven
Wow, you quoted Treebeard. Even though it has noting to do with the video. But he's a living tree so it's like, get it? The quote, was said by a tree person, and the video is about tree people. So clever.
SnorgonOfBorkkad seriously dude? D&D is obviously inspired from the world of LOTR and the treant is most likely inspired off of the ents. Why do you feel the need to put somebody down for making a slight inaccuracy?
@@snorgonofborkkad Yeah, I'm gonna stop you right there. As the other person said, D&D Is inspired by lord of the Rings. In fact, older edition almost got sued for the balor and halfling, becouse they were clearly inspired by Balrogs and Hobbits. I think they tried to keep the names Hobbit and Balrog, but they had to change it to avoid legal trouble.
@@lancepharker lol. I once made a forest with multiple Treants in an area, because it was/is a region where the Feywild has "spilled out" into the normal Material Plane. I was not expecting my lvl 1 players (starting as slaves in a mine to Kobolds) to go running into it in the dark, but that was my oversight. They were being chased though by Kobolds in a prototype magitech armor, but the Kobolds had to get out to enter the forest. The party hide quietly up in the "trees" and the Kobold trackers eventually stopped and camped for the night in the dark forest nearby. Kobolds, sort of being the fools they are, started a fire which attracted nearby Treants to attack them, one upon which the party was hiding. So most of the party jumped down off the Treant that was heading back towards the Kobold trackers, but 2 didn't because they wanted to kill the trackers. The archery one of the two was fine sitting in the Treant, but his wife got down and attempted to fight the Kobolds as a monk... even as boulders were being thrown next to her. She neglected to think about the accuracy or forethought a Treant might have in it's throws against creatures potentially setting fire to their forest, but near death she eventually got the idea to leave. :P
@@Desiremademanifest OR even vice versa. What a player character that might be being a Dryad druid that is bonded with a tree that WAS a Treant. Your idea is great though. :P
9:40 I would like to point out that medically, there are some species of maggot flies that eat living flesh. There are probably some rot grubs out there like this as well that eat green wood as well as dead. Just a thought.
I just learned it's pronounced "tree-ant" not "t-rent" as I've been pronouncing it for the past three years. Fortunately I've never actually said it out loud to anyone so I avoided making a fool of myself.
I wonder how a trean would be affected when a green dragon sets up its lair in a particular forest, considering the effect their presence has on forests. Would they turn as corrupted as the other flora and fauna?
I remember a while back you made a video about dryads and the question if they could "bond" to a treant. Would be cool if you could look into that possibility
best thing to do as a logger, find a treant and ask it to advise you on which trees to cut while agreeing to plant a new tree for every one you take down. it wont let you take down bad trees and will appreciate the replacement trees.
The moment the special drink of the treants came up, my mind went to “or it causes their hearts to blow up in their chests because they weren’t witchers”.... or something with poison resistance
Yes. MOST stories today... are copies, retellings, and bastardizations of fairy tales, Tolkein, Stein, and a HOST of other stories from 75-5,000 years ago. Nearly every piece of media you hear or see today... is a pathetic copy of something already done before. Music died in the 90's when "pop" got shoved down our throats by "reality" television. Radio died when the TV came out. Movie theaters started dying out when the tv came out. Movies got dumber and dumber in the 90's because all the stories had already been told and retold at leat 3 times on the radio, in cinema, and then on tv by then. The music, tv shows, and movies you see today; none of it is original, save for a VERY select few things. When something is new and original, everyone knows it, because it actually IS original. There isn't much left to be had there though.
They're almost an exact copy, probably more so than any other creature Rhexx has covered so far. Down to awakening other trees like the Huorns from LotR. I mean, I'm not complaining, Ents are amazing, I just wish that there was just a teeny bit more originality to Treants.
It goes far beyond treants. Back in the day, names were just straight up taken from Tolkien. Halflings were Hobbits, Balors were Balrogs, 2nd level rangers were called Striders, etc.
@@AflacMan13 When you copy almost everything from characteristics of ents (treants) hobbits(halflings), elfs, orcs and dwarves to balrogs (balor), it becomes plagiarism.
One of my favourite NPCs was a friendly treant from the feywild. He was the main "quest-giver" and protector of the forest we landed in. He gave off some Cheech&Chong/older stoner vibes; we helped out a nearby village of pixies among other small tasks. Seeing our good intentions, he stayed in his forest and safeguarded our passage home once we decided to move on. I was playing a (CG) Wood Elf Druid, so this treant was *that NPC* for my character. Basically besties. I used Druidcraft for our amusement, playing with the animals, to make his bark grow mosses and his leaves bloom, which the animals and faeries found amusing, and he tolerated in good humor. Good times. Never forget my boy Rootwood Silverbark, my favourite "monstrous" NPC so far.
Mr Rhexx displays proper knowledge of medicinal maggots, and I can only sit here and not be surprised. He is and always will be one of my favorite lore bards!
your videos are so incredibly well put together and interesting, I know almost nothing about D&D and I've watched your whole channel! Hope you're doing well you so deserve it!
13:40 Uhhhhh....... There’s a few trees like that in my area. Other trees of seemingly the same kind drop their leaves, but these few don’t. They just change to the usual Autumn colors, even when the temperature drops below -20 F, the leaves stay on and go green again in the spring.
Every single one of your videos fills me with so much inspiration both as a player and as a dm. I adore your work and thank you for making my games richer than ever.
Can really see the influence from Tolkien in certain aspects (other than the fact that he more or less invented ents). The Ent draught, slow communication, long lifespans and memories, the mnemonics and poems to remember things, etc.
Love listening to your lore videos. They always give me so much inspiration for DMing. I've already got an idea for a quest for my players thanks to this video.
Dragon: I have seen ages of man come and go Druid: oh, maybe you’ve met my tree friend, he’s a bit shy though Dragon: your what? Druid: yeah, trees that are as alive as you or me, some have been around to see ages of elven kingdoms come and go. Dragon in shock: WHAT
I imagine a Druid poet who just sits and watched a treant it has identified while it speak with other trees, writing poems and such using that rustling as inspiration
I RAN A dnd campaign were the "boss" was an elder treant (note: I didn't know anything about truants at the time) anyway the party was on the way to a town that they had been hearing rumor of people going eather missing or coming back dalustional and in a state of... Brian deadness? Well the party comes across these wierd creature in the forest outside the town (homebrew saprolings) they had the ability to poison a person and put them into that state after a day. well in any case they find out that they have been poisoned by something as it was like a spore so it let the "boss"talk to them. So they had to make their way to her "bosses" lair. After they get their they go though what appears to be a cave of incredable wonder everything was alive. They make their way to the end and come across this giant old tree. And find out the boss was a treant who had grown attached to the forest and that after the people of the town started killing the trees she became angry and thought how would they feel if their friends became useless beings like a hunk of wood. And the party reasoned with her and she gave them an antidote. And the towns people had to only take what they need form the forest from then on. Sorry if it was long, there was a lot of other really important thing and fun things that happened but that would be excruciatingly long
Very good and thorough exploration of treants! I recall treans actually having a god of their own in 2nd Edition named Emmantiensien, who is the sage of the Seelie Court and advisor to Oberon and Titania. "Much as World Serpents appear in many myths as timeless beings of wisdom, Emmantiensien is a World Tree who has no origin in time; he has always existed. The roots of Emmantiensien are curled about a magical crystal, fashioned by some unnamed and unknown god, and from this crystal the Treant-King can draw power which the sylvan deities can otherwise not employ, not even Titania herself." (source: DMGR4: Monster Mythology)
Wow it's almost as if the video was designed to communicate information to people. And like, sometimes, information will be new. That's so crazy that happened to you!!!
Subbed!!!!! I love treants! Whenever I have the opportunity I always try to gather info or just honestly chat with treants. My DM hates and loves this because sometimes I roll high enough and actually find one and he has to literally make one up real quick. He mostly hates them, haha
What they don't tell about oni? like, do they originate from Vaprak like ogres? One thing they don't tell I can say that oni & ogres once crossbred an species of creature called ogrima
The Monster's Manual was pretty solid this time huh, great video as usual dude :D. On a side note, I would appreciate if you make a Satyrs video anytime soon, I really want to know more about them in DnD and I cant find much information.
Then there isn't much information. Mr. Rhexx gets his info from previous editions, googling, and old Dragon magazines. This info is readily available to anyone. None of it is canon for 5ed but you are free to use it for your game
Great work MrRhexx I love your dnd videos and I think you're doing great Ps. Maybe you could do more about not just creatures but groups and places and such
I think there are some trees or fungi at least that can communicate to each other through a forest floor connection that spans the entire forest. Also, they use this idea in the movie 'Avatar'. I once had Treants do this, but they were a custom subspecies though. :P
I planed a whole adventure around collecting Treant wood. I said it was the only way to melt some mystic metal to make the Paladins Sword. I didn't consider that the Druid, the Ranger and the Elf Monk would absolutely object to hunting Teants. I had to stop the session there to plan something else.
Tree:
Tree:
Tree: “Wait, I can think?”
Tree:
Tree:
Tree: °fart°
Tree: How did I do that!?!
Tree: wtf
@Rohan Nash @Herny Luka hmm joined 4 weeks ago the same day as the person you are replying to not suspicious at all
@Henry Luka why is this bot everywhere?
it's like when you're dreaming and then you suddenly realize you're dreaming and it wakes you up
Treants: When trees get so bored of doing nothing, they start slapping adventurers for fun
Random Cat Name
Or become adventurers and slap monsters instead
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Wait they can become adventures?
@@CombatSportsNerd Dont see why not. Ask your dm first though.
@@fubar9629 Yes, they can but take account that due to their power it would be a very high level campaign, regular characters would start with levels above the treants HD to compensate it's special abilities, so while you play a treant other player could be playing with a druid able to transform into one.
Treant: Ahh, Spring! Life is good.
Treant: Ahh, Summer! Life is very good.
Treant: Meh, Autumn! Life is getting boring.
Treant: Hey fucking Lumberjacks down there, this tree over there is still healthy and growing!!
10:52
"The lore says that this method of communication is extremely slow"
Tree beard: "it takes a long time to say anything in old entish.. and... We never say anything... Unless.. it is worth... Taking.. a very long time to say..."
Rubs up against other tree
3 years to say no homo
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*sees the Astolfo
Irony is such a sight.
@@TheKing-qz9wd I swear that despite the jokes I make and my profile, I am in fact not gay
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You need not swear any oath for I shall take you at your word.
Please never format comments that way. It's so obnoxious.
Would love to see breakdown of seelie and unseelie courts
I thought you meant releasing different fairies and watching them duke it out and not a Disection of the culture
@@zealotoftheorchard9853 lol
Who are the seelie and unseelie
@@grizzlyslugegg3408 those are like courts of fairies Seelie are fairies that are in a good mood and unseelie is Bastard fairies that are not happy
@@zealotoftheorchard9853 in a nutshell. :P
Treant completes its awakening and sees the druid who watched over it.
Druid: "You're finally awake."
Baby Treant: "Are you my mummy?"
Treant: "I........ AM......."
You were trying to cross the border right? Walked right into Imperial ambush?
@@north-ofthe-border1758just like us, and that shrub over there.
Feels like you’re just spoiling me with all this good content at this point.
We need it
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I really need a vampire one that would be awesome
I feel the same way. I wish he and AJ Picket would do a collab video, not necessarily lore but perhaps a story or commentary on a vs. battle of similar creatures where both pick a favorite and debate who would come out on top or why they would come to a draw.
@@chiefmike9493 there already is one dude! Also if for your campaing you want some more infor on how to arm your enemies look at shadiversitys videos on fantady re armed and less known historical weapons
-"when a treant dies it becomes a normal tree"._ What would happens if someone use the Awaken spell? Will "resurrect" the treant? Will this be a new being? A lesser/younger version of the same?
Love this Lore vídeos, but almost always I ends up with more questions that answers.
Probably would be closer to a reincarnation of a Treant and would be a new Treant. The necromancy-based resurrection spells I don't think specify what type(s) of creature(s) you can use it for. I'd say that a Treant is a creature, so that you should simply use those type of spells and that the Awaken spell wouldn't work that way... on a "deceased" Treant. :P
The awaken spell only works on beasts, trees and treants are plants.
Alex Boyer Uh bud, no
@@alexboyer6691 Actually beasts and trees, but it is a 5th level spell plus costs at least 1,000gp worth of components. So for most campaigns... that's a lot of coin and is nearing the cost of the spell 'Resurrection' anyway. Personally as a DM, if it mattered that much to you to go through all this trouble, I'd probably allow it. :)
@@alexboyer6691 the spell description for awaken specifies beasts OR plants. However it would just be an animated tree with int of 10. It wouldnt be a true treant.
I love seeing the variety in designs for monsters. Each artist has their own interpretation of how a monster would look, and they're all fantastic.
Had an area of one of my campaigns called "The Endless Forest". It was a massive (several hundred square mile) forest made up of mostly Treants, living shrubs, and other awakened plants. With of course a super ancient (30K year old) Treant/Dragon in the center of it.
It was called the Endless Forest not just because of its size. But due to how dense the forest itself was, almost no sunlight reached the forest floor, instead lit up by the treants fungus which had evolved to have bioluminescence. The near total darkness combined with the ever shifting and moving treants made getting lost in this forest a near certainty, and would make the forest seem endless.
The way we played out navigating it was they would pick a direction they would attempt to travel in, and then roll to see if they went that way or if they got lost and went the wrong way.
It ended with the party helping out "Reythmedah"(dovahzul for "tree like hunter") defeat a dracolich who was attempting to corrupt the Forrest and use it as both a lair and means to build an army.
Very cool, I would have loved to be a player in your campaign!
I feel like a good addition to that setting would be treants who came from dryad trees, this allows the dryad to move about and if another fey creature lived in the boughs of the tree portion they could form a mobile coven
"There is no curse in the tongues of man, elvish, or ent for this treachery" (but thank you for this video Rhexx)
Wow, you quoted Treebeard. Even though it has noting to do with the video. But he's a living tree so it's like, get it? The quote, was said by a tree person, and the video is about tree people. So clever.
SnorgonOfBorkkad seriously dude? D&D is obviously inspired from the world of LOTR and the treant is most likely inspired off of the ents. Why do you feel the need to put somebody down for making a slight inaccuracy?
@@snorgonofborkkad
Yeah, I'm gonna stop you right there. As the other person said, D&D Is inspired by lord of the Rings.
In fact, older edition almost got sued for the balor and halfling, becouse they were clearly inspired by Balrogs and Hobbits.
I think they tried to keep the names Hobbit and Balrog, but they had to change it to avoid legal trouble.
@@snorgonofborkkad someone needs to cast awaken on you methinks you don't got a brain
I much more like the quote about the entwives.
12:24 "Some people have claimed that drinking of the treants special drink [...] physically increased their size"
Merry and Pippin say hi.
Yeah that's basically taken right out of LotR.
Perhaps their the saplings of the Entwives and not mini humans
Can a treant be bound to a dryad?
That'd be sick
It's possible. I don't see why not.
Magic is still magic so... quite likely. Hell, I could see a treant with the spark being born from the soul of a slain dryad bonding with it.
by the time I scrolled down to the comments, I was already creating an encounter...
@@lancepharker lol. I once made a forest with multiple Treants in an area, because it was/is a region where the Feywild has "spilled out" into the normal Material Plane. I was not expecting my lvl 1 players (starting as slaves in a mine to Kobolds) to go running into it in the dark, but that was my oversight. They were being chased though by Kobolds in a prototype magitech armor, but the Kobolds had to get out to enter the forest. The party hide quietly up in the "trees" and the Kobold trackers eventually stopped and camped for the night in the dark forest nearby. Kobolds, sort of being the fools they are, started a fire which attracted nearby Treants to attack them, one upon which the party was hiding. So most of the party jumped down off the Treant that was heading back towards the Kobold trackers, but 2 didn't because they wanted to kill the trackers. The archery one of the two was fine sitting in the Treant, but his wife got down and attempted to fight the Kobolds as a monk... even as boulders were being thrown next to her. She neglected to think about the accuracy or forethought a Treant might have in it's throws against creatures potentially setting fire to their forest, but near death she eventually got the idea to leave. :P
@@Desiremademanifest OR even vice versa. What a player character that might be being a Dryad druid that is bonded with a tree that WAS a Treant. Your idea is great though. :P
"Some might believe the dragons to be the oldest living -"
Aboleths: "ARE WE A JOKE TO YOU?!"
yes they are too me.
9:40 I would like to point out that medically, there are some species of maggot flies that eat living flesh. There are probably some rot grubs out there like this as well that eat green wood as well as dead. Just a thought.
Would make for an interesting quest to get rot grubs for a terminally ill treant...only to get the wrong kind.
Adorable Cockroach
Bruh that would suck
The Cleric's Quintet has a really cool couple of chapters about these old guys.
My boy Salvatore!
@@fonztorres XD Yeah... I'm a bit old school
I just learned it's pronounced "tree-ant" not "t-rent" as I've been pronouncing it for the past three years. Fortunately I've never actually said it out loud to anyone so I avoided making a fool of myself.
Ent from Lord of the Rings…. Literally Tree Ent
You can still have a Treant named Trent
Or Trunks
I wonder how a trean would be affected when a green dragon sets up its lair in a particular forest, considering the effect their presence has on forests. Would they turn as corrupted as the other flora and fauna?
I remember a while back you made a video about dryads and the question if they could "bond" to a treant. Would be cool if you could look into that possibility
Better yet, if a dryad could bond to a treant. Now THAT would be cool.
@@snorgonofborkkad idk if I didn't come across accurately but that was exactly what I asked lmao
I just thought about if dryad's could bond to a treant, that would be so cool
Some people really don’t read what they are reading..
But I’ve also been wondering about this. Awesome idea
Bro you have the best DND content on youtube imo.
AJ Picket
@@snorgonofborkkad Rhexx still better. :P
@@mathunit1 Puffin forest is a good one too.
best thing to do as a logger, find a treant and ask it to advise you on which trees to cut while agreeing to plant a new tree for every one you take down. it wont let you take down bad trees and will appreciate the replacement trees.
Everytime you upload one of these videos, I make a story based off of the lore and my group loves it!
The moment the special drink of the treants came up, my mind went to “or it causes their hearts to blow up in their chests because they weren’t witchers”.... or something with poison resistance
Okay I didn't expect Treants to have so much more to them! That's pretty neat
It's D&D, everything has "so much more" to it.
I mean, they steal and plagiarize most stuff so of course they have lot of content.
So basically Wizards of the Coast, or whomever owned D&D during it's first edition, just copied pasted Tolkien... Well, why reinvent the wheel?
Yes. MOST stories today... are copies, retellings, and bastardizations of fairy tales, Tolkein, Stein, and a HOST of other stories from 75-5,000 years ago. Nearly every piece of media you hear or see today... is a pathetic copy of something already done before. Music died in the 90's when "pop" got shoved down our throats by "reality" television. Radio died when the TV came out. Movie theaters started dying out when the tv came out. Movies got dumber and dumber in the 90's because all the stories had already been told and retold at leat 3 times on the radio, in cinema, and then on tv by then. The music, tv shows, and movies you see today; none of it is original, save for a VERY select few things. When something is new and original, everyone knows it, because it actually IS original. There isn't much left to be had there though.
They're almost an exact copy, probably more so than any other creature Rhexx has covered so far. Down to awakening other trees like the Huorns from LotR. I mean, I'm not complaining, Ents are amazing, I just wish that there was just a teeny bit more originality to Treants.
@@magiv4205 They even used the "mnemonics to remember things" from LoTR. Copied every little thing
It goes far beyond treants.
Back in the day, names were just straight up taken from Tolkien.
Halflings were Hobbits, Balors were Balrogs, 2nd level rangers were called Striders, etc.
@@AflacMan13 When you copy almost everything from characteristics of ents (treants) hobbits(halflings), elfs, orcs and dwarves to balrogs (balor), it becomes plagiarism.
Now I need to see a Baobab Treant, just the most enormous, top heavy creature in all of Africa
I too would love to Learn More about Baobab Treants.
Imagine a Redwood Treant.
Holy sh*t, the size.
@@vaulthunterfromterra4053 hear me out: Hyperion, but as a treant
One of my favourite NPCs was a friendly treant from the feywild. He was the main "quest-giver" and protector of the forest we landed in. He gave off some Cheech&Chong/older stoner vibes; we helped out a nearby village of pixies among other small tasks. Seeing our good intentions, he stayed in his forest and safeguarded our passage home once we decided to move on.
I was playing a (CG) Wood Elf Druid, so this treant was *that NPC* for my character. Basically besties. I used Druidcraft for our amusement, playing with the animals, to make his bark grow mosses and his leaves bloom, which the animals and faeries found amusing, and he tolerated in good humor. Good times. Never forget my boy Rootwood Silverbark, my favourite "monstrous" NPC so far.
Mr Rhexx displays proper knowledge of medicinal maggots, and I can only sit here and not be surprised. He is and always will be one of my favorite lore bards!
So far my favorite video. I have had an interest in Treants for a very long time. So glad you go to this.
Nice, I love how this helps my campaign.
Surrounded by angry trees secretly chucking hunks of the forest at you from a distance.
So I don't know if you take requests, but could you do a video about Thri-Kreen? They're so alien and cool
your videos are so incredibly well put together and interesting, I know almost nothing about D&D and I've watched your whole channel! Hope you're doing well you so deserve it!
13:40
Uhhhhh.......
There’s a few trees like that in my area.
Other trees of seemingly the same kind drop their leaves, but these few don’t. They just change to the usual Autumn colors, even when the temperature drops below -20 F, the leaves stay on and go green again in the spring.
"Why don't you make like a Treant and get out" -Biff
Loved this episode. thanks for making it!
Every single one of your videos fills me with so much inspiration both as a player and as a dm. I adore your work and thank you for making my games richer than ever.
That thumbnail... I feel like I'm about to enter the Brisban Wildlands.
Thank you!
Always love seeing your videos in my feed :D keep on keepin on Mr Rhexx
Another gr8 video man just like always. Keep it up!
To this day this is still my What They Don't Tell You About vid
Can really see the influence from Tolkien in certain aspects (other than the fact that he more or less invented ents). The Ent draught, slow communication, long lifespans and memories, the mnemonics and poems to remember things, etc.
Went delving through the comments to find this. Shouldn’t have been so surprised, but here I be.
Glad to see that GW2 oakheart art for the thumbnail ;D
The Gw2 Loading Screen as Thumbnail i like it
I love how you can have some that would let a foolish man live, and some that litteraly trash settlements wherever they spring up.
Love listening to your lore videos. They always give me so much inspiration for DMing. I've already got an idea for a quest for my players thanks to this video.
Dragon: I have seen ages of man come and go
Druid: oh, maybe you’ve met my tree friend, he’s a bit shy though
Dragon: your what?
Druid: yeah, trees that are as alive as you or me, some have been around to see ages of elven kingdoms come and go.
Dragon in shock: WHAT
Can we PLEASE get a video about doppelgangers and changelings?
We did, you just couldn’t tell 🤪
I imagine a Druid poet who just sits and watched a treant it has identified while it speak with other trees, writing poems and such using that rustling as inspiration
I RAN A dnd campaign were the "boss" was an elder treant (note: I didn't know anything about truants at the time) anyway the party was on the way to a town that they had been hearing rumor of people going eather missing or coming back dalustional and in a state of... Brian deadness? Well the party comes across these wierd creature in the forest outside the town (homebrew saprolings) they had the ability to poison a person and put them into that state after a day. well in any case they find out that they have been poisoned by something as it was like a spore so it let the "boss"talk to them. So they had to make their way to her "bosses" lair. After they get their they go though what appears to be a cave of incredable wonder everything was alive. They make their way to the end and come across this giant old tree. And find out the boss was a treant who had grown attached to the forest and that after the people of the town started killing the trees she became angry and thought how would they feel if their friends became useless beings like a hunk of wood. And the party reasoned with her and she gave them an antidote. And the towns people had to only take what they need form the forest from then on. Sorry if it was long, there was a lot of other really important thing and fun things that happened but that would be excruciatingly long
Is that a Guild Wars 2 Oakheart as the thumbnail? Wow, that brings back memories!
I enjoy how treant protector from dota2 made it onto your slideshow (6:00)
Got me with that Guild Wars 2 thumbnail.
Also because Treants are cool.
Very good and thorough exploration of treants!
I recall treans actually having a god of their own in 2nd Edition named Emmantiensien, who is the sage of the Seelie Court and advisor to Oberon and Titania. "Much as World Serpents appear in many myths as timeless beings of wisdom, Emmantiensien is a World Tree who has no origin in time; he has always existed. The roots of Emmantiensien are curled about a magical crystal, fashioned by some unnamed and unknown god, and from this crystal the Treant-King can draw power which the sylvan deities can otherwise not employ, not even Titania herself." (source: DMGR4: Monster Mythology)
"Don't bring an Axe...just don't, young fellow." I was told this by a Dwarf awaiting the recorvering of his friend.
Love this series; and just when I thought everything had been covered I learn something new.
Wow it's almost as if the video was designed to communicate information to people. And like, sometimes, information will be new. That's so crazy that happened to you!!!
All the more reason to support this great content :0 Excited to learn more from this series and hope others are enjoying it as much as I am
Treant: "Goblins are coming. Better drink my own sap."
Man you gave me an awesome idea for a quest/subplot in a campaign I’m designing thank you!
“It takes a long time to say anything in old Tree Speak, so we don’t say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.”
I love all of your videos man, I always like them before I even watch haha
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Honestly so great love the lore thank you and keep it up 😁😁💖💖
Srsly man, you rock with your d&d vids!!! Each time that i see a new one, I can hardly wait for the next one😊
You need friends.
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Is it a weird habit, that everytime before bed i play one of your lore videos and listen until I fall asleep😴😴😴
I'd say it's more of a quirk, not even rising to the level of an eccentricity.
Subbed!!!!! I love treants! Whenever I have the opportunity I always try to gather info or just honestly chat with treants. My DM hates and loves this because sometimes I roll high enough and actually find one and he has to literally make one up real quick. He mostly hates them, haha
So, Lorax, the orange magical thing that got awoken when the tree got chopped is basically a Triant? Or a druid?
Yuan-ti need a deep dive my dude keep up the awesome work u really gave me a true love of the lore man
What they don't tell about oni? like, do they originate from Vaprak like ogres? One thing they don't tell I can say that oni & ogres once crossbred an species of creature called ogrima
I love all the layers of symbiosis in the Treants.
the Treants apparently have advantage on all medicine checks
like that brisband wildlands artwork
I was confused cause I thought I was going to watch a gw2 video.
He should have done a brief review of the Guild Wars Oakheart from the video thumbnail.
Female treants... Do you think I'd have a shot with romance with one? Or do you think I'm barking up the wrong tree...?
I’m begging you, trees don’t try
I can't wait for the Ki-rin video
Ok
Enjoyed the vid, thanks dude!
Recent findings find plants can scream ultrasonic up to 65 decibels. Good Google rabbit hole.
11:07
“Many of these trees were my friends, creatures I had known from nut and acorn; they had voices of their own…..”
That's pretty neat that they included what are basically xylem and phloem tubes in their monster. Sometimes these guys really do think of everything.
The Monster's Manual was pretty solid this time huh, great video as usual dude :D.
On a side note, I would appreciate if you make a Satyrs video anytime soon, I really want to know more about them in DnD and I cant find much information.
Then there isn't much information. Mr. Rhexx gets his info from previous editions, googling, and old Dragon magazines. This info is readily available to anyone. None of it is canon for 5ed but you are free to use it for your game
I am imagine a dryad connecting herself to one of these and becoming almost like a familiar
So you can literally go: I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees!" In dnd XD
Now imagine that a relatively new Treant bonds with a young Dryad.
Can Dryads live in teants? And if they can what kind of relationship would they have with each other.
Great work MrRhexx I love your dnd videos and I think you're doing great
Ps. Maybe you could do more about not just creatures but groups and places and such
is it me or is he holding back giggling the whole video? Its like you expect him to burst out laughing at any moment.
I think there are some trees or fungi at least that can communicate to each other through a forest floor connection that spans the entire forest. Also, they use this idea in the movie 'Avatar'. I once had Treants do this, but they were a custom subspecies though. :P
Damn, just the lore of the treants have inspired so much in IRL content >_>
Another great video but this law has some major issues surrounding the tube rot. If you're up on your tree biology.
I fall asleep to your videos all the time
I planed a whole adventure around collecting Treant wood. I said it was the only way to melt some mystic metal to make the Paladins Sword. I didn't consider that the Druid, the Ranger and the Elf Monk would absolutely object to hunting Teants.
I had to stop the session there to plan something else.
how large could a red wood treant get and seance pine tree create so much sap and have to pred there seeds in extreme heat what are the ylike
Very cool video! I would like to know how much of the lore was taken from LotR. Keep it up! I love these!
I'd imagine the singing to remember, slow language, and the special drink are inspired by lotr.
Probably took everything from Tolkien and just added to it
I love these videos and have subscribed due to them. I'd really enjoy seeing the demon lords covered.
That last picture is epic.
great video, as always!
Treant video! Thank you so much!
another great episode Rhex!!
always amazing! thank you
"I used to be a Halfling, but I had some Ent-Draught & became a Wood Elf."
Now the strongest Treant in all of fiction is *Swamp Thing*
Does this make Assassin vines the cats of the Treant world? 🤣
I come for the monsters, stay for the "BUSHIDO BURRITO"