Dryads have always been minders of the cycle of nature. Most are isolated hermits committed to the solitary existence of their trees in the regions they inhabit. Ensuring nature progresses properly in spite of those that would disrupt it. Others, like Rhanis, are communal to nature wandering as their duties to the cycle permit needing only the sun and that which grows. Neutral in their powers they are as close to the light as they are the dark. Though they also tend to that which returns life they remain warriors to bring death to things in nature which should not be. Claws that bite, bark skin that is strong, movements agile, with sharp horns to gore the unwary. While a healer to the seelie she is ambivalent to mankind and to unseelie whom are otherwise benign.

It writ in her nature to tend to the seelie free of the burden of payment but must perform any healing of which she is able from others if her named cost is paid. Though she is loathe to interact with humankind it yet applies to them or the unseelie and none but the patient and the bond-holder may speak to her or it is broken. Those Seelie or Unseelie that abuse her services for their own gain or redact agreed payment will find black mark left behind in their name which many plagues of nature may recognize and choose to be unkind.

The skulls she carries serve as focus to take life from another through power to heal the seelie. The skull is not special itself merely a prepared grisly reminder for nature of the proper shape of last life she destroyed to create it. It is a vessel of transfer for the waters of life.

Among her hair grow the berries of the plant from which she was created, the Elder tree. Those without injury find them hazardously addictive flavorful fruits that take life from them to rest among her collection of skulls. Among the injured they staunch bleeding aiding injury and help clear noxious toxins. She can make pure foods or poultice from them but it strengthens their effect and may inter greedy souls in good health to earth sooner than they expected. However shrubs of ever-bearing elder are frequently found wherever she sets down her roots.