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Treeans

Treeans are an ancient race of elves. Their lives are a bit more settled than their woodland cousins, and they make permanent homes inside of large, old hollow trees. Rather than making a home wherever they park themselves for the night, they have made regular homes in old growth forests. Far from solitary creatures, they band together in close-knit communities of 500 or more, usually in old trees centered around a clearing where they can also raise crops and have well kept gardens.

Young Treeans do not come to full maturity until they reach 100 years old, and can live to be quite old indeed. Some of the elders are reaching 2000 years old, and others have forgotten just how old they are. When a young Treean comes of age, they are strongly encouraged to travel by the older and wiser of the race, to get any wanderlust out of their system before settling down and raising a family. This has never been a problem for them, but in the past 200 years, many of the young travelers have failed to return.

The dwindling population has caused a logistical problem for the race as a whole, because fewer and fewer Treeans are being born. Still change does not come easily for them, and they continue to encourage the youngsters to go on journeys. No one exactly knows why so few have returned or what has been their fate. In order to replenish their numbers, many have asked their woodland kin to kidnap human children for them, leaving a changeling in their place. Being sensitive to a parent losing a child, since many of them have, they do insist that only children who are being mistreated or neglected be taken.

The kidnapped children are changed into full-fledged Treeans within a few years, and their stature slowly decreases to match that of the rest of them. Most members of the community are no taller than 4 feet high at the most, although their extremities are closer to the size of a normal human. Within that time, their general appearance becomes more and more Treean-like and they end up with pointed ears, and large heads, hands and feet in comparison to the rest of their bodies. They also live very long childhoods, which can be a blessing if you have had your childhood in the human world stripped from you due to abuse.

Treeans are great crafts people, and although their lives are lived rather simply, most have a craft that they have perfected over several hundred years. They make everything in their communities that they need, and only trade with the woodland elves on a rare occasion, and mostly it involves trading goods they have made for human children.

Family life for the Treeans is very important, and they treat all the young ones, both natural born Treean youth and human children, with tender loving care. They are very honest and truthful, and never get violent unless they are faced with protecting their own. Because of this, there is no need for authority figures, so political and authoritative leaders are virtually nonexistent. When trouble does arise, they come together as a group and work things out, and the elders are often asked for their learned opinions.

Needless to say, Treeans lead a very idyllic life, but unfortunately their numbers are becoming fewer with every forest that is cut down. They depend on old growth trees for their homes, and very few of them exist any more. It is because of this deforestation, that Treeans generally avoid, and disdain humans, with the exception of those they choose to bring into their fold.