RPing Evil Druid
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Psychotic Jim
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How about combining a few of the known archetypes? What about taking the "Purifier" concept and mixing it with the "Survival of the Fittest"? What if the evil druid took developed a twisted take on Social Darwinism and used it to justify a brutal status quo? Perhaps focusing on eliminating all forms of charity and mercy as it only makes survival of the species weaker in the long run.
TheAuldGrump
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I am amazed that Darkness has not yet shown up to discuss the Druids in the Scarred Lands... some really evil examples there...
The Auld Grump
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Li Shenron
Legend
For me the easiest way would be just that of a Druid who hates humans and other civilized folks. Considers them responsible for corrupting the earth or escaping nature's rules, and occasionally spills human blood to satisfy the earth's thirst.
Edena_of_Neith
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I had thoughts on evil druids, and it caused me to take a new look at trees.
Consider just how powerful an animated tree would be. It must hold up it's own immense weight just as a normal tree, and withstand windstorms which generate truly colossal forces against it.
Now, it is walking, talking, flexing it's branches ... and anything in it's way is history.
Now, when the entire forest gets involved, everything in their way - including assorted cities, countries, archwizards, super clerics, and even those industrially minded gnomes
are history.
So we have an evil druid. And the evil druid says:
For countless millennia, elves and men have chopped down the trees.
Now, it is time for the trees to chop down the men and elves.
Arise forest, and march in your countless billions to Green Glory!
Are you sure you want evil druids in your world?
(Paraphrased from The Illearth War, by Stephen Donaldson: Against the might of the Deep, even Fleshharrower's immense army was insignificant, a paltry insult hurled against an ocean. The trees overwhelmed the cunning of the ur-viles, the brute strength of the cavewights, and the mad, cornered fury of the myriad stonewarped creatures. Knife-wielders were slain, fires were stamped out, lore and force were overwhelmed. Then the trees obliterated all traces of their victims, in a storm of satisfied vengeance.)
Consider just how powerful an animated tree would be. It must hold up it's own immense weight just as a normal tree, and withstand windstorms which generate truly colossal forces against it.
Now, it is walking, talking, flexing it's branches ... and anything in it's way is history.
Now, when the entire forest gets involved, everything in their way - including assorted cities, countries, archwizards, super clerics, and even those industrially minded gnomes
are history.So we have an evil druid. And the evil druid says:
For countless millennia, elves and men have chopped down the trees.
Now, it is time for the trees to chop down the men and elves.
Arise forest, and march in your countless billions to Green Glory!
Are you sure you want evil druids in your world?
(Paraphrased from The Illearth War, by Stephen Donaldson: Against the might of the Deep, even Fleshharrower's immense army was insignificant, a paltry insult hurled against an ocean. The trees overwhelmed the cunning of the ur-viles, the brute strength of the cavewights, and the mad, cornered fury of the myriad stonewarped creatures. Knife-wielders were slain, fires were stamped out, lore and force were overwhelmed. Then the trees obliterated all traces of their victims, in a storm of satisfied vengeance.)
Sejs
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...and then one stray cigarette butt tossed out of a car window, and it's all brought crashing down.
Smokey the Bear may have taught us what we can do to prevent forrest fires, but if we purposefully opt not to do those things we can SAVE THE WORLD!
Smokey the Bear: Savior of Humanity.
*nod*
Smokey the Bear may have taught us what we can do to prevent forrest fires, but if we purposefully opt not to do those things we can SAVE THE WORLD!
Smokey the Bear: Savior of Humanity.
*nod*
Edena_of_Neith
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Consider the Old Forest (from Tolkien) and the attitude of it's trees.
Then imagine a druid sheparding those trees. (Actually, Old Man Willow could be considered a druid in this sense, and he was not very nice!)
An evil druid could be the ultimate poison wielder, deriving poison from magical and mundane sources and envenoming her weapons, her arrows, her caltrops; everything.
She could create venoms that only paralyzed or slept her victims.
Then imagine a druid sheparding those trees. (Actually, Old Man Willow could be considered a druid in this sense, and he was not very nice!)
An evil druid could be the ultimate poison wielder, deriving poison from magical and mundane sources and envenoming her weapons, her arrows, her caltrops; everything.
She could create venoms that only paralyzed or slept her victims.
An evil druid could...
Poison people, yes- but why poison individuals when they could foster the growth of aspergillis and other molds and fungi that wither crops, or cause hallucinations and death in whole cities. Ditto with plagues if he sends in enough carrier rodents or birds.
Withold rain from farmers' lands, or could cause weeds to overrun crops- especially if he's trying to extort money from the villagers.
Command animals to attack, even the usually harmless and mild domesticated ones. Rats? Killer Bees? Wolves? Definitely. Depending on the environment, this could be devastating. Consider Aquaman (DC) and Namor (Marvel) sending whales and krakens to attack surface ships.
Poison people, yes- but why poison individuals when they could foster the growth of aspergillis and other molds and fungi that wither crops, or cause hallucinations and death in whole cities. Ditto with plagues if he sends in enough carrier rodents or birds.
Withold rain from farmers' lands, or could cause weeds to overrun crops- especially if he's trying to extort money from the villagers.
Command animals to attack, even the usually harmless and mild domesticated ones. Rats? Killer Bees? Wolves? Definitely. Depending on the environment, this could be devastating. Consider Aquaman (DC) and Namor (Marvel) sending whales and krakens to attack surface ships.
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Actually, as I recall, there is something about Zuttmogy (sp?) in the latest Dragon magazine...talking about molds and fungi and so forth.
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