So there's a forest with animals, fey creatures, and lots of dryads especially. Then the sky darkens, Mt. St. Helens erupts and covers the entire forest in mud, or a Tunguska event flattens it. However it happens, the trees are killed, buried, and maybe petrified or something.
Obviously all the dryads were killed instantly. But what if they weren't? What would dryads be like, a thousand years after such an event, still connected to their dead-but-preserved trees? Insane and angry, yes, but what else? Would there be physical changes? How would their abilities be different? Would they be some form of undead, ghosts or something else? Is there such a thing as undead fey?
Obviously all the dryads were killed instantly. But what if they weren't? What would dryads be like, a thousand years after such an event, still connected to their dead-but-preserved trees? Insane and angry, yes, but what else? Would there be physical changes? How would their abilities be different? Would they be some form of undead, ghosts or something else? Is there such a thing as undead fey?