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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9032575" data-attributes="member: 58172">In 5e, the Eladrin are Fey Elves, and are any Alignment. The 5e version now serves less well for a cosmic manifestation of the Chaotic Good alignment.What to replace them?I want to emphasize the "arboreal" aspect of Arborea, namely "trees".Note, the 5e Treant actually is the Chaotic Good alignment − while also being the Plant creature type. Perhaps the Treant of the Material Plane immigrated from the CG plane of Arborea in the Astral Plane.Another candidate for Arborea is the 4e Wilden, a player species that is an anthropomorphic Plant. The body is made of entwining rootlike cords, and is agile, while the surface is leafy in places. In 4e the Wilden is Fey, but seems easy to waive as actually from Arborea in Astral Sea, and those immigrating into the Feywild have the largest populations near the portals beween Feywild and Arborea. Unlike the 4e Elf and Eladrin that are "Any" alignment, the 4e Wilden is "Unaligned". This suggests they are actual plants, rather than humanlike personalities. If Wilden are native to Arborea, it means they are manifestations of the cosmic principle of Chaotic Good. Individuals would "typically" be this specific alignment and prioritize Chaotic Good goals over other goals.The Dryad of Greek traditions is worth mentioning but feels too much like a nature being, connected to a specific tree, or specific forest. Also, they feel neither "Chaotic", nor especially "Good". Individuals might be, but not as a group.Where GCG Beastland personifies the cosmic principle of animal life, CG Arborea would personify the cosmic principle of plant life. I like how the imagery of Beastland is fluid, anywhere from fully human to fully animal. I want the imagery of Arborea to likewise be fluid, anywhere from fully human to fully tree. The Astral Plane is the "ideas" that designed the multiverse, and especially the Material Plane. Because "humanity is the measure of all things", it is important to me that human imagery is part of the alignment planes, especially Good ideal ones. So whatever the native species of Arborea is, players that choose it for their character concept can choose whether appearing fully human, fully a tree, or some intermediary form in between. Like the Beast Lord is often a human that can shapeshift into an animal, the "Plant Lord" sotospeak is often a human that can shapeshift into a tree. But some "Plant Lords" prefer to partly express the plant nature, such as leaves for hair, or look like a polished wooden statue, much like the 5e Dryad. Some others prefer to appear like an anthropomorphic plant, made out of plants but in a human-esque shape, much like the 4e Wilden. Yet others, prefer a form that is indistinguishable from a tree, until moving in an animate way, like a Treant. While the character grows up from a seed, the character chooses the form that best expresses their unique individuality. This Individualism is the Chaotic aspect of the Chaotic Good alignment. A person must be true to oneself and be the best version of oneself.For now, I am using the name "Xylon" (the Greek word for "wood", ksulon) that the above describes. The Celestial Xylon replaces the Celestial Eladrin of earlier editions as the "Angel" of Chaotic Good. Some Aasimar have Xylon Ancestry.<table style='width: 100%'><tr><td></td><td>PLANE</td><td>INHABITANT</td><td>ANGEL</td></tr><tr><td>CG</td><td>Arborea</td><td>Arboreal</td><td>[Xylon]</td></tr></table></blockquote>

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