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Many thanks, raggidman
Quote:From a post to Krisi_
These names sound familiar too, if they are quotes from in-game stuff then it is very important to say so as this forms a powerful basis for your own input.
...snip...as what I want to do is create a differnt and clearly recognisable style for each of the different races.
Not sure which race yours would be as yet.
:alert: Having said this if there is anything more you can add from in-game - screenies of seeds, leaves etc, that will help us to create concept art and construct models later!
I felt like writing something a little different today and came up with this. I hope it's suitable.
Valenwood Ironwood Tree - commonly known as the Ironbark Tree
The Ironwood tree is amongst the most hardy and well defended of flora in Tamriel. Reaching up to thirty feet in height, and ten feet in width, the tree is an impressive sight. Its bark is streaked with glowing silver-white veins that travel all the way from its substantial root-base up to the beginnings of the canopy, creating quite a spectacular, almost ethereal effect on the surrounding forest. The interior of the tree is a jelly-like mass of capillaries and sap, offering no usable wood. As the water content of the tree is so high, the bark is the only thing keeping it erect and thus must be extremely strong. The tree?s sap is extraordinarily nutritious, and the bark provides impressive defence from predators as a secondary function. In fact, it is so effective in this role that it is all but impossible for any creature without specialist tools to reach the sap (apart from near the top of the tree where the bark is weaker). The Leaf-Child clan of Bosmer who dwell near the Eastern coast of Valenwood hold these trees in very high regard, creating powerful medicines and all manner of foodstuffs from its sap. By doing this they break from the green pact that binds the rest of the Bosmer people, causing friction with the rest of their race that often manifests itself in open warfare. In fact, their culture appears to be a strange perversion of the rest of Bosmeri, for they eat and craft only from Iron trees, the consumption of flesh being taboo to them. The Children of the Leaf as they are often referred, are also the only creatures in Tamriel that are able to manipulate its bark. The bark of the Ironwood tree is comparable in strength to a thick plate of iron, hence the name. Although it can be cut using stronger metals such as Adamantium or through magical means, the only way to retrieve it and have it retain its natural elasticity is through the ancient Leaf-child art of Tying. Without this elasticity, the bark becomes brittle over time, losing its inherent strength. By marking out foot-high rings on young trees using the trailing vines from more mature specimens, Leaf-child woodcrafters can retrieve large amounts of the bark without the need for cutting. The process requires leaving such a tied tree for five years. By that time the bark will have grown up to a foot wider in diameter, the ironwood vines separating the tied rings from the main body of the tree. From here, Leaf-child woodcrafters can peel the thick rings of bark from the trunk of the tree, filling the gap with a thick resin to prevent infection and to retain stability. What processes the bark is subjected to next is a matter of much speculation amongst scholars, for when it is seen next by outsiders, it is in the form of beautifully crafted and polished bark armor, combining the strength of steel with the lightness of leather. The reader should note that such suits of armor are rare and only worn by the most important of the Leaf-Child Bosmeri.
edit by raggidman - just put in the new name that you suggested = Ironbark. An excellent name btw :yes:
maybe (since most Bosmer won't use vegetation, Green Pact) there is only a special clan of Bosmer who doesn't care of rthose rules and uses this bark?
You what? Gah... Didn't know about that. Bugger and blast.
Thanks for the info. Just read the pact (wish I had a few hours ago). Man, and I thought hippies were bad! Now I hate the whiney little scrotes more than ever. That pretty much makes all I've written rubbish. Hmm... Time for some serious editing.
[Edit] Serious editing complete. This will most likely be the last Bosmer-related bit of writing I do. What a silly people.
Silly? Esp since the Wood Elf is probably not big enuf (or strong enuf) to wear the average suit of Daedric Armor - except somehow armour always fits
:goodjob: a worthy first for the Valenwood Edition that gets you a BB BSc Botany major with a minor in Lore (if the Perfessor concurs) - if you complete a second you could have a Botany Books Doctorate...How does Dr Treebiter sound to you? Tempting?
Hmmm... I've always been a sucker for titles :]. Now I've read Dance in the Fire I feel more up to the task so I don't think another is out of the question.
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ps, X( anyone shoots the kitten and they are dog meat!
I am afraid Ironwood trees are native to skyrim:
Ironwood Nut is a hard-shelled fruit that comes from the ironwood trees growing deep in the forests of Skyrim. The wood of these trees is hard as the metal after which it is named. The very rare black variety of ironwood is said to produce a nut which is very succulent and believed to greaten the strength of the adventurer who is able to crack its shell and partake of it.
I'll take your word-for-word for it.
Ironwood Nut comes from the Skyrim Ironwood trees. Does this mean that there are no other varieties of ironwood tree?
well there I dont really know and the info comes form special flora of tamriel