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- Hamadryad is a player character race in 4th edition Dungeons & Dragons.[HotF:22]
- A hamadryad was a species of dryad. Like dryads, their life was linked to their tree.
- Hamadryads are a race of beautiful tree-like humanoids that live in Telathar, Torilaar, Dranora, and Sunildra. These beings are one of the most important ones in society and share a friendship to the Wood eladrins, Sun eladrins, and Moon eladrins in Othoran. They assist any race or ally with guidance, education, and protection. Like the Ancients on Azeroth, they are large and powerful, and are protectors of the forest.
- In Greek mythology, hamadryads were a type of dryad whose life was tied with the tree they resided in. If the tree died, the hamadryad died. The trees they were spirit-bound to were oaks and pines. Hamadryad is Greek for "together with the tree" (feminine).
- Hamadryads are beautiful tree nymphs or spirits that live throughout the world of Narnia.They do not live in Oak, Elm, Holly, Rowan, Beech, Silver Birch, Larch, Willow and Blossom trees. They are a specific species of dryad, which are a particular type of nymph. Hamadryads are born bonded to a specific tree. Some believe that hamadryads are the actual trees, while normal dryads are simply the entity, or spirit, of the tree. If the tree died, the hamadryad associated with it died as well.
- The hamadryad is native to the Santiago peninsula on the planet of Sky's Edge. Most information about them is imparted in the novel Chasm City, where much of the action takes place on Sky's Edge. Hamadryads are named for the hamadryads of Greek mythology, for reasons which become obvious with an understanding of the animal's life cycle. The lack of a spine is handled, by evolution by animals maintaining structural rigidity "through the pressure of circulatory fluids alone, pumped by hundreds of hearts spread throughout the creature's volume".
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- Hamadryad is a player character race in 4th edition Dungeons & Dragons.[HotF:22]
- A hamadryad was a species of dryad. Like dryads, their life was linked to their tree.
- The hamadryad is native to the Santiago peninsula on the planet of Sky's Edge. Most information about them is imparted in the novel Chasm City, where much of the action takes place on Sky's Edge. Hamadryads are named for the hamadryads of Greek mythology, for reasons which become obvious with an understanding of the animal's life cycle. As the climate of Sky's Edge suffers no winter season, there was no ecological niche into which creatures analogous to mammals could evolve. Similarly, the vertebral column never evolved there, so all fauna are invertebrate poikilotherms, with the largest being broadly analogous to reptiles on Earth. Whilst the largest invertebrates on Earth are aquatic, such as squid, large invertebrates on Sky's Edge also populate the land, possibly as the result of a catastrophic event having caused the oceans to shrink. The hamadryad is the largest land-based lifeform native to the planet. The lack of a spine is handled, by evolution by animals maintaining structural rigidity "through the pressure of circulatory fluids alone, pumped by hundreds of hearts spread throughout the creature's volume". The life cycle of the hamadryad is rather complex: juvenile and near-adult hamadryads are snake-like limbless creatures, of minimal intelligence, with a very simple central nervous system. The juvenile owned by Cahuella is described as being 12 metres in length and roughly as thick as an adult human's torso for most of that length, weighing more than a tonne. Being limbless, the creatures move like snakes on Earth. Their cold-bloodedness means that they generally move slowly, feeding infrequently, and are remarkably long-lived, with a longevity of hundreds of years. Being the largest native land-based lifeforms, the hamadryad has no real predators. Juvenile and near-adult hamadryads have no apparent external eyes but, despite this, are capable of camouflaging themselves to match their surroundings. Contrary to this belief these pre-adult hamadryads do in fact have eyes. Eyes with remarkable visual acuity, set inside the upper roof of the jaw and spaced apart for binocular vision. Whilst hunting and preparing to ambush, prey are additionally triangulated with a host of other senses, such as infrared vision and smell. At the end of the near-adult phase, adult hamadryads bond with a hamadryad tree, their bodies becoming part of the bark. The first explorers on Sky's Edge didn't investigate the hamadryad trees very well before the planetary war began, so the nature of the creatures' life cycle was not immediately apparent. The trees are relatively rare, but distributed across a large part of the Santiago peninsula, rising to a height of 40–50 metres above the forest floor. They are broadly cylindrical in shape, thickening towards the base, with an almost metallic-looking helical structure wrapped around the length of the trunk and a wide canopy at the top, tens of metres in diameter. The first scientists to investigate these trees discovered unusual cell differentiation both radially and around the tree's perimeter — animal epithelial cells towards the outside, with soft, lipid membranes, and plant cells further inwards, with cellulose-like cell walls and chloroplasts.
- Hamadryads are beautiful tree nymphs or spirits that live throughout the world of Narnia.They do not live in Oak, Elm, Holly, Rowan, Beech, Silver Birch, Larch, Willow and Blossom trees. They are a specific species of dryad, which are a particular type of nymph. Hamadryads are born bonded to a specific tree. Some believe that hamadryads are the actual trees, while normal dryads are simply the entity, or spirit, of the tree. If the tree died, the hamadryad associated with it died as well. Hamadryads first appeared in The Magician's Nephew when they were created by Aslan's song which also created Narnia and the other creatures. They all gathered as a council and joined the coronation of Frank I and Helen, the first king and queen of Narnia. Hamadryads hid inside their trees during the Long Winter that the White Witch created. Most were turned to stone and, after being restored by Aslan, many fought in Aslan's Army in the First Battle of Beruna against the White Witch's Army for the freedom of Narnia. After the invasion by the Telmarines, Hamadryads hid in the land again until the time of the Narnian Revolution. When Narnia began to be ruled by Caspian X, who was a Telmarine but loved the Old Narnians, the Hamadryads began to spread around happily. Near the time of the Last Battle, Hamadryads began to die as their trees were cut and entered into Aslan's Country.
- Hamadryads are a race of beautiful tree-like humanoids that live in Telathar, Torilaar, Dranora, and Sunildra. These beings are one of the most important ones in society and share a friendship to the Wood eladrins, Sun eladrins, and Moon eladrins in Othoran. They assist any race or ally with guidance, education, and protection. Like the Ancients on Azeroth, they are large and powerful, and are protectors of the forest.
- In Greek mythology, hamadryads were a type of dryad whose life was tied with the tree they resided in. If the tree died, the hamadryad died. The trees they were spirit-bound to were oaks and pines. Hamadryad is Greek for "together with the tree" (feminine).
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