Treebeard
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Treebeards
Overview
The Treebeards are not known for their phenomenal prowess in combat nor do they excel in being merchants. The Treebeards are simply known for trying to get the most out of life, living in luxury and making sure their mugs are always filled to the brim. The Treebeards show great respect and compassion for one another, ready to lend a helping hand in whatever the activity may be. Although they will never forget their ancient history with their mountain-dwelling cousins, they still show respect to them, even if they fail to return it. As the original forest dwarf clan, the Treebeards can trace their lineage back to the seventh son of Urguan, Gloin Treebeard.
History
The Treebeards get their name from their great ancestor Gloin Treebeard who was said to have had a connection with nature and was a devote worshiper of Anbella unlike the rest of his family. It is said that since his brothers took their names from the great deeds or talents they possessed like Grandaxe and Irongut, Gloin thought of a name, Treebeard. He took his clan and settled in the woodlands resulting in the subrace now known as forest dwarfs. After living in the forests for a time, many Treebeards returned to the mountains finding themselves unfit to live in the forests in wooden huts and cottages. Whilst many ended up back home in the mountains, the remaining Treebeards left for the elven forests where they settled peacefully in wooden huts and villages above the surface and on top the trees. After living there for a time, some Treebeards found themselves influenced by the elves resulting in some taking to the Aspects the elven religion and even fewer becoming druids. After hundreds of years living in the forests, the Treebeards became scattered across the woodlands of the world, resulting in the clan becoming mixed with other sub races and giving rise to mix breeds with the name Treebeard. With many Treebeards becoming mixed, it was rare to find a pure blooded Treebeard. As the Treebeards kept to their forests they became disconnected from the world and dwarven politics, and slowly as time passed they dwindled and disappeared, some hiding in their forests while others ventured into the far reaches of the world.
Culture
The Treebeards are a spiritual and passive people, they often dwell in their wooden huts and villages in places where nature is abundant. This way of life has often been seen as weird to the other races of the dwarfs but the forest dwarfs aren't bothered by it. With a love of nature surpassed by none of the dwarven race, the Treebeards are devout followers of Anbella and often become priests of the hearth, holding oath and nature to the highest regard. Rare will you find a Treebeard underground toiling with stone or fighting in a war as it goes against their beliefs. Another more rare path of the Treebeards, as few in their history have ever done so, is abandoning the worship of the Brathmordakin and Anbella and worshiping the Aspects the wood elven gods. Those who worship the Aspects can sometimes be shunned by the Forest Dwarfs as their love for Anbella is sacred and never to be taken for granted, as such some take to offense when one abandons the religion.
