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Name: Sequoia
Age: 2574
Gender: Female
Species: Wood Nymph
Ethnicity: Sequoiadendron giganteum
Height: 6'7" (nymph), 28 meters (tree golem)
Occupation: Guardian of the Forest
Residence: The ruins of a city at the southeastern end of Draconi Forest
Favorite Food: Sunlight and rainwater
Alignment: True Neutral

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Art courtesy of Selenada
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Physical Description:
Sequoia looks like she's made of wood, and that's because she is. As a wood nymph, she reflects the appearance of her tree- in this case, a giant redwood. Sequoia is taller than an average nymph, and has a stocky appearance due to her thick bark. Her hair is comprised of the thin, needle-like leaves of her tree, and occasionally cones will grow in it. Her eyes are the color of sap.

Sequoia's tree doesn't really look like a tree, not anymore. It still serves the same function that a tree would for a nymph (for example she can still retreat inside it for shelter, and any damage to the tree will reflect onto Sequoia's body) but Sequoia has made some... radical changes. It now looks like this:
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Art courtesy of Jason Engle
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Personality:
Once a doormat, Sequoia has become an extremely violent, aggressive person as of past few centuries. Tired of the humans who would once walk all over her and her forest, she has come to the conclusion that direct action is the only way to prevent what she views as parasites from destroying all she holds dear. She has seen far too many of her friends perish due to deforestation, and Sequoia's heart has hardened because of it. She does not care who you are or what your life story is, if you so much as break a branch off a tree in her presence, there will be a reckoning.

Relationships:
Sequoia has befriended many natures spirits who have come to her for protection, and many have come to see her as a sort of spiritual leader.

Magic/Abilities:
Sequoia has been around for a long time- over 2,500 years! She's been practicing primal nature magic for the majority of her life, and this well of experience has resulted in the creation of the largest golem Le'raana has ever seen- her very own tree has been animated to serve her.

While the golem is typically inactive, when Sequoia goes inside her golem she is able to control it as one would their own body. As the golem is massive- over 90 feet tall- this makes Sequoia a considerable threat to anybody who would try to harm the forest she calls home.

History:
Once the tallest tree in Draconi forest, Sequoia was revered by the local nature spirits as a symbol of beauty. When discovered by humans, she was given the title "The Guardian Tree" due to her tree's placement at the very edge of the forest. Sequoia didn't mind the attention she got- she honestly enjoyed it.

As centuries passed, humans grew more industrious. Swaths of trees would disappear seemingly overnight, killing the spirits that inhabited them. Sequoia, still enamored by the humans who sang her praises, wrote it off as being "just part of nature". Then the deforestation reached her grove, and she began to grow concerned. Still, the humans assured her that there was nothing to worry about, and so she listened to them.

Then Sequoia saw what was being done to her fallen kin, and it horrified her. The humans were building structures out of the corpses of trees- trees that could have been Sequoia's friends. Realizing now that sitting by passively had caused her to let down the entire forest, Sequoia became determined to drive the humans away from the forest by any means necessary. Realizing she couldn't possibly hope to defeat the few hundred humans who had come to create a settlement, she began to prepare a complex ritual that would allow her to fight them on equal footing.

One hundred years passed, and an entire city had been constructed around Sequoia's tree. Aptly named "Guardian City" after Sequoia's old nickname, it had become a bustling center of commerce and trade since it's initial founding. Sequoia herself had become reclusive, never showing herself in front of humans if she couldn't help it. The majority of townsfolk assumed she had died somehow...

Until the Guardian Tree uprooted itself out of the ground and slaughtered them all.

Another three hundred years passed, and the forest has reclaimed the ruins of Guardian City. Sequoia's tree still stands in the center, but it now stands proudly among other trees. The ruins have a reputation for being haunted by angry nature spirits- a rumor Sequoia herself has propagated to keep humans away. Guardian City will remain as the sanctuary it is now- Sequoia will see to it.

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