How would a druid kingdom work?

How would a druid kingdom work?

You know how the typical wood elf kingdom is like? With the giant villages in the trees and all?

It's like that, but less gay.

biopunk dystopia

It would be very mysterious

What WAS the mystery in that game anyway?

>dystopia
OP said kingdom, not empire

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I think wakfu kinda nailed it actually.

I want to pollinate that plant.

but it would be like your typical kid friendly gnome village, just not kid friendly. Houses natturally made out of trees or dudes sleeping in the outside, animal helpers, angry bushman...

A bunch of hippies

Or savage men

Clearly it would have powerful individuals spread out over a large area, as opposed by normal societies which have large groups of weaker people.

They would lack the numbers but have the individuals. Which depending on their magic would either make or break them

Wait a fucking minute, is this literally another "OP answers their own question with their picture's source." thread?

Motherfucker.

Gridania

Nah I'm a different user. I just think the pic was more accurate than anything I could think of.

-The soil surface is a maze of fallen logs, mounds of decayed leaves, stinging tree-creepers so wide and entangled that some trees never fall to the ground. Below all this, the soil is impenetrable due to the way the space between two roots seems to be filled by a third one. One needs to travel on higher grounds.

-Wherever your eyes gaze, you'll see olive-green and nut-brown speckled with all the colors of the world, except the sunlight hidden beyond the verdant canopy. But it's never dark. Lichens soak our eyes with orange and pink, bunches of mushrooms can be used as candlesticks which flash yellows and violets.

-They use the root network to communicate and outlaw iron because that is the metal of civilization and progress (swords, shovels, axes...).

-It is mostly a confederation of tribes connected through their druids, acting as a national council of sorts. The population is low due to being integrated into the food chain.

-Their "army" are the nomad hives, each ant twenty inches long plus eight-inch, double-scissored mandibles.

-The cycle of life is faster. The local tribes use caves for their temples because dead wood rottens quickly. A ship's crew can land at the beach to capture animals, only to find an useless hulk on their return. But living beings heal better than outside. Both life and death are amplified.

-The scents are of honey, garlic, rotten fish, damp wood and dry polen, everything fresh and bitter, sweet and sickening all at once. When you think you got used to it, a new smell appears to disagree. Here, even the smells are wild and agressive.

Something about time travel, I think?

...like any of the Celtic kingdoms if they were run by priests?

The druids
major spoilers to follow, be warned:
There were no actual druids, ever. It was all a conspiracy.

A forest kangdom.
Basically, there's no underclass of serfs, because druids ensure the forest is a self-maintaining ecosystem that feeds the populace while requiring only low-effort maintenance from time to time. As such there would probably be no feudal nobility. Druids would probably be of a higher status than non-druids though, and I imagine the druid-king would be elected for life from among the druidic upper class. Still, being a commoner wouldn't be so bad. At least you don't have to slave away on the land.

I also don't know where this trend of elves suddenly being brown came from but I'm not complaining.
>Inb4 French elves aren't elves
Yes they are shut up.

That's a very attractive girl who I'm sure is of legal age

Under what law?

Jesus fucking wept.

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I first read that as "animal herpes". I may need more booze.

You and me both.

I read the OP as "How would a fluid druid kingdom work?"

Slimegirls?

I think she is in the OVAs

Really?

She's 13

... That's not a French elf.

Cra are more nice and 'elfy

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Jesus christ I watched porn of her before I even knew about Wakfu.

I may start drinking.

What's there to be ashamed of? 13-year old girls are hot. Please do join me with the drinking, however.

She's not real.

Oh right I remember now

Veeky Forums is full of fuck

Kill yourself.

You guys are making me want to

Don't feel bad.

Ankama was giving freeze-frame nip slips when she was 14-15, too.

I'll help!
I'm a helper.

thanks user

God normalfags creep me out sometimes.

It's quite easy, you should try it sometimes

tip from a veteran: make sure your neck isn't strong enough to support your weight, so your father won't cut you down and you live, just with 15 less IQ and a fucked up voice.

Legal in about half the states in Mexico

>normalfag
I'm here, aren't I?

giga rip

Go back to le reddit.

>hurr de blur a too-low number was attached to an imaginary character with physical characteristics I enjoy that are WAY out of line with the previous number am i a pedo??!1/!?/!??!?!1

A childlike character isn't a milf just because the artist said she's actually a 1,000 years old vampire/dragon/demon/whatever.
A character with big tits and wide hips isn't a loli just because the artist doesn't know what children actually look like.

Fuck's sake, pic related is supposed to be TEN. Even if you give a shit about what imaginary shit you fap to, I double don't get this sort of reaction and I see it all the time. Beating it to a character with serious T&A does not make you a fucking pedo.

You've seriously never seen a ten year old with B's? I did. I saw a LOT.

what game?

Never been on Reddit before I found out about it through Veeky Forums, I skipped that part of my Internet Orientation.

Some people have a lot of trouble telling fiction apart from reality. It used to be a big trend in America a few years back, and it still kind of is.

Quiz of the Clerics

You and we both.

It would be even more gay.

A lot of furries fucking each other in magic tree houses.

What makes you think you aren't walking into one anytime you enter a jungle, forest, or the woods?

Man, nightelves used to be so awesome.

I hope they retcon all of WoW when they finally return to warcraft.

that last movement seemed kinda mechanical

It's not gay if he transforms into a female animal.

Depends on whether druids are butthurt about civilisation taking their forest clay

all right, let's go step by step from the beginning
>Where did druids come from?
>Did they involve themselves in matters of common men or quietly masturbated in the forests?
>Were druids respected or feared?

>and I imagine the druid-king would be elected for life from among the druidic upper class

>high level druids live "forever"

So you either have an upper class group of immortals* ruling your city. Emotionally detached as you are fleeting to them. at best you're a puppy. Enjoyed but not equal.

OR

Everyone is immortal*. High level druids share their immortal secrets and you're born into a stagnant system. You can never climb up because there are never people dying or retiring. If anything, things are only getting worse as more people are becoming immortal and the same resources are having to be divided further.
*they can die, but unnaturally. And probably rarely in a peaceful city.

There was nothing in that post about high lvl druids living forever. And if you're referencing d&d's high lvl druid ability, you're misunderstanding it. Druids stop gaining the negatives from physically aging, but they still die at the end of their natural lives.

>The surprising adventures of Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

>at best you're a puppy
That's fine.

great shorts, would totally watch an actual full length show like that shit

The druid king only becomes king after he binds his life spirit to some plant or a tree typically. This permanently connects the druid caste to the forest. When the tree naturally dies he dies along with it. Then a new king is selected who plants a tree or something and binds his spirit to it and the process continues anew. So a king would probably live at the most 3500 years if nature is fortunate to the tree. At worst a king would live a season bound to a sunflower or something. I dunno.

Reincarnation spells in recent editions allow to bring back the characters who have died of old age, and are considered a signature ability of Druid spellcasting lists.

Cross between mayans and animal spirit worshipping tribals.

On a constant exchange of fluids.

The latter can work, provided there is a system in place to keep their numbers in check.
Could be as simple as ritual cannibalism, or periodically picking a fight with whoever's dumb enough to live next to their woods. Gaia have pity on the first of them to knock over a tree while the druidic population is getting too large.

As a whole I imagine it's a small city state. Influence spreads to wild untamed forests and a few high yielding farms or orchards. They generally have less need for a well equipped army because the natural geography prevents both an invading force and outward expansion. Hunting is generally protected, the animals they herd are barely domesticated (goats rather than sheep, geese rather than chickens).

I generally would imagine its more of a limited democracy (voting is limited to wardens of particular stretches of land, and to be a warden you have to be part of upper echelons of the cult). If you wanted it to be a king with lineage, I would still tie the rulers very tightly to theocratic control especially if the druids can literally make the rivers flood and allow for crop growth and the kings don't have any power. There is a perceived mandate of heaven and earth, and if the cult fails to flood the river or a pestilence rolls through then a dynasty will probably end.

You can decide your own powerlevel, but I like the idea of the druids having great power when working together but rarely being particularly powerful on their own.

It might sound wrong, but I would probably model a kingdom with rulers after either Aztec or Egyptian civilization.

It's been too long since I watched that series and I can't remember the specifics. Would you mind writing a run down on the Sadidas?

They're plantpeople druids/shamans serving the god of plantlife and voodoo.
They're literally tied to a giant tree in that the center of their kingdom. Meaning if said tree is cut down, the whole race dies.

That was it? Well, considering it's the Krosmos we're talking about that might be it.

There's also possibly the whole "can sense the feelings and thoughts of trees" thing. But as far as the show goes, only the princesses/queens seem to have that.

Though I suppose it's as good an excuse as any to be militant protectors of the forests if your queen acts like she's on her period every time a tree is felled.

I suddenly feel the urge to kiss her tummy and make her wince and giggle.

Wood Elves from Warhammer.

Thats a dark elf from Tenchi Muyo: The Sequel Nobody Wanted

Why are Wakfu characters so bonerific but Wakfu porn so unsatisfying and unfappable? It boggles the penis.

The series is made by the French, but the fanart usually isn't.

>Thats a dark elf from Tenchi Muyo: The Sequel Nobody Wanted

Tenchi in Tokyo?

i want to marry a cute druid gf

No, even worse. War on Geminar.

It's about Tenchi's hither-to unmentioned LITTLE BROTHER, on a fantasy planet in SPACE, where he and a bunch of PRINCESSES pilot FANTASY-MECHS

>Kenshi Masaki is a 15-year-old boy that has unwillingly traveled from his home on Earth to the alternate world of Geminar (ジェミナー Jeminā). On Geminar, the countries wage wars using Sacred Mechanoids, humanoid exoskeletal weapons that were originally discovered within ancient ruins and developed over centuries. After being tricked by a mysterious organization into participating in an attempt to assassinate Lashara Earth XXVIII, the young ruler of the Shtrayu Empire, he ends up captured after he chooses not to kill her. Deducing enough about Kenshi to interest her and because his abilities make him an extremely valuable property, Lashara decides to take Kenshi under her protection.

If this sounds pretty cool actually, just wait, they manage to ruin it

>Disguised as her attendant, Kenshi travels with her and her bodyguard Chiaia Flann to the Holy Land, a virtually impregnable fortress that serves as an academy to train Sacred Mechanoid pilots, most of whom are female. With his kindness, tenacity, and skills that vary from carpentry and cooking to advanced survival techniques, Kenshi eventually becomes a celebrity in the academy, becoming the object of affection of many female students and making some of the male students envious. However, the same organization who deceived Kenshi is secretly working inside and against the academy, and a worldwide conflict is about to begin.

That's right. They take this premise and turn it into a highschool harem anime that focuses on slice of life. Incidentally it only lasted 1 season so the antagonists never actually do anything

But user, WoW IS Warcraft 4. Warcraft 4-6 :^)

how is that a conspiracy? who conspired? not the fucking druids that's for sure

I didn't even think it was possible to be worse than Tenchi in Tokyo.

Dominions rocks

are they gonna save that woman from the broods or just kill her too?

So, thus far we have
Dierdre and the followers of Planet
the Sadida from Wakfu
The Night Elves from WoW
The Asrai from Warhammer
Any other examples that immediately answer OPS question or should we try vainly to fluff something out like one or two anons have done to no success or response

Filename

Best Case scenario she gets kidnapped by the wild-hunt because one of the Asrai feels like engaging in some bestiality with a human

>ywn be rescued/captured by a rugged virile wood elf hunter and kept as his sex-pet chained up in his house like a servant/dog

can elves and humans interbreed in Warhammer?

I don't even think they can be attracted to each other.

In WHFRP there is brief mentions of half-elves. They are extremely rare, and most are killed at birth. One appears in a novel. IIRC, they function like Tolkien half-elves

Interesting thanks. do you have a source?

Glieads Blood, black library. Be forewarned this book is regarded as pretty trash in terms of fluff.

Basically, half elves are in the same place as half eldar in 40k. They were given very brief mention once upon a time in ancient days before the internet even existed, and were largely forgotten after

*Gileads Blood

Longer than 1 season based on length alone. There were only 13 episodes, but each one was ~50 minutes long, instead of the customary 20-30 minutes of your average anime episode. The high school harem anime ends around the eighth episode, before that it's mostly harem antics with a lot of plotting and planning by the villains going on in the background (which starts coming into the open in the sixth and seventh episodes).

The latest Ryo-Ohki OVA (4) also has a lot of Geminar setup worked in, almost to the point where you might well not wholly understand what's going on if you didn't know Geminar existed.

I like Geminar, even despite the harem antics.

>I hope they retcon all of WoW when they finally return to warcraft
So much this, it hurts.

BUT DO WE EVER GET FANTASY MECHA BATTLES!?

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Yes. Several of them. Geminar actually ends with big mecha battle between Kenshi and the BBEG that culminates in him turning his giant rock club thing into a Lighthawk Wing and effortlessly slicing the other mecha apart.

Advanced agriculture, large food animals.