>>24027856I'm pretty happy with that and also that my diagram is being used. I wanted to elaborate a bit on those final transformations in order from left to right:
>Nurterer Saplings that take after the caring nature of their Goddess and promote the health and wellbeing of the forest and the saplings that dwell within, specialize in healing and regrowth and are powerful conduits of chuubanite energy and magic
>GuardiansAncient and colossal, these saplings are brutish as their figure suggests and are utterly unbreakable in form and will. They serve as moving mini-forests in their own right and are only moved in times of great distress of the forest at large or trespass of special locations blessed by Fauna.
>Nymphs (?)Elusive variants of saplings that are mischievous by nature and manipulate the foliage to their will, whether they create ensnaring vines to capture trespassers or to create open clearings for the weakest of saplings to be able to thrive at last. The foliage bend to the will of Nymphs and they should never be underestimated in their cunning and might.
>TreantsThe wisest of all sapling variants, they serve their purpose to the forest by providing a guiding hand in the development of the forest and the saplings. Treants are a diverse group of individuals as they take their intellect and hone it into arts they seem fit as some Treants are strategists, logisticians, and some even developing their martial prowess.
I also initially thought of the idea that still-human saplings must first die to be reborn into seedlings that develop into the intermediate dryads but we can cut that out with no problem. I'm also open for there to be even more diversity of sapling dimorphism but this is as much as I understand off the top of my head.
