The dryads view themselves as guardians of the woodlands, and protect it fiercely. Intruders who they believe may harm their forest quickly find themselves assailed with their poison-dipped arrows and fey magic as they dart across the canopies. The dryads, having lost sisters in the past due to lumbering activities done by humanoids, sees all humanoids as threats to their forests, and therefore attack them on sight. Of the fey in the Preborian Forest, the dryads are the ones Marcandrians are most familiar with, specifically because it's usually they who drive off or kill those who dare enter their forest. The dryads' ability to communicate with plants, alongside the interconnectedness of the forest's roots, allows the forest to notify them when it's being harmed. However, the forest's vast size coupled with the dryads not being particularly numerous means they are by no means able to stave all of the Marcandrians lumbering and forest clearing activities along the forest's edge.
The dryads share these groves with numerous other types of fey. Among these
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The dryads are the type of fey the Marcandrians are most familiar with, primarily because it is often they who drive off or kill those who try entering their woods.
The dryads are not very organized or structured, often cooperating and collaborating with each other, but with no overarching strategy across their kind.
Oldest and most respected is ____. Fey who live among the dryads, or near their groves, include __ (satyrs, pixies, sprites, …)