trees producing flowers and fruit off their trunks is called Cauliflory, Jackfruit trees do this. It's theorized that plant might have evolved this way because there may have been animals that are too large to pollinate flowers on thin branches. The thin branches might snap under their weight, so the sturdier trunks of the tree hold weight better. That might lead to creating an animal that pollinates the trees you made.
I loved seeing your thought process with these! I, myself, am more of a fan of wildly strange and alien creatures, but this flowchart is a great way to streamline creature/plant creation :D also, it’s funny you mentioned mushrooms, I’m working on a little biome right now called the Fungal Jungle. It’s deep underground, where the only light provided is by the giant, bioluminescent mushrooms that fill the niche of trees. Because of this light, plant life and fungi alike can flourish here, despite its dangers. The twist is that all the Glowlight mushrooms are part of one sentient, immortal fungi/mycelium network that constructed the ecosystem around itself on purpose, knowing it will outlive every individual plant or creature, all of which will one day die and feed it. Eheheh. Mushrooms are probably one of my favorite things to mess with, lore-wise To quote a post I saw: “Mushrooms are neither plants, nor animals, nor something in between. They elude all attempts to categorize them. We do not know what they are. Some are immortal. Some produce life-saving substances. Some are so closely related to humans that eating them may cause an allergic reaction against your own body. I cannot teach you about the mushrooms” - idk who said this I’ve just seen it floating around
I love coming to this channel for train of thought work, it's really very interesting to watch as you actively come up with the concepts that you'll be working with, I wouldn't worry about having something completely reading for others to use! Part of the fun is this sort of brainstorming air that this series offers, you're working things out in real time and it helps me get in the mindset of creating myself. Another thing I think would be great to add to this to really help ground these plants and animals in the worldbuild of the feywild that you're doing is asking what social and environmental roles do these things play? Are these animals kept as pets by any species, or livestock, and if so for what reason? Where do these plants grow and how do the animals in those environments interact with them? I'm sure you know, when you start tying things to each other, you create brand new aspects of the world that you didn't even know were going to be part of the worldbuilding, like if for example there was a species of people in the feywild that found these fruits you described poisonous, or if it was a delicacy to them because it's of the spring court and they're of a court where they're just not grown. I'd love to see the answers you come up with when you start weaving the threads of worldbuilding on flora and fauna together with everything else you have going on!
Those questions are fantastic for tying everything together! Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I especially hadn't even considered the rarity of fruits from one region to the next, but that's brilliant.
I brought in Sun Wukong (Monkey King) to my campaign. His story and powers seem very fitting for the fey and I've got a monk in the party who needed a mentor to help pull him out of his evil ways, but, of course, there are trials.
3.5 is full of "systems" that help you do things. Learning 3.5 is hard, but worth it for every nerd that creates things. Programmers. Writers. DMs of any and all systems (medieval ones at least). Etc...
Love the system definitely using this! Also in my last session I had a field of very large poppies which started singing to my players. They kept doing this until the party joined in the singing. The flowers then got angry and pushy if some players didn't join. Was some great fun
This is a pretty funky system. I guess I was already doing something similar, but I never thought to make it an actual flowchart/system like this of it. Doing that’ll probably help generate ideas far quicker when I’m actually sitting down trying to flesh out an ecosystem. Thanks!
@@feywildfiend Why thank you kindly. Behold: the fruits of your system: Alchemants: floral ant colonies whose casts are each based off a different flower. They are pot-bellied ants (who irl are lil’ honey balloons) who collect the magically/alchemically potent flora of the feywild and brew then in vats within their nests, often burrowed into by animals who want the magic juice. Their pot-belly workers carry the different ant-brews to the other casts for different effects. The eladrin have picked up on this, and often keep alchemants in floral-potion-cafe-like establishments like one would keep bees for honey.
Great topic and substantive discussion... I would like to see an equally substantive discussion of the inanimate objects of Fey. Off the top of my head, I'm seeing the talking teacups and candelabras from Disney's Beauty and the Beast, but I know there is more to inanimate objects.
@@feywildfiend had a fey vineyard where the grapes crawled of like ants to find new places to plant their seeds and the party had to collect all the grapes, the party even kept one as a mascot called vinny
AAAHHH this was such a cool video! I loved the flowchart, it makes it so much easier to plan out the construction of any dubious little stinkers you wanna make :] Amazing ideas as always!
I'm really thankful for your channel! My party has a feylock and they're all preparing to go to the Feywild in the next couple of weeks. You've given me a lot of inspiration :)
Let's be honest: if the party might try it, it's worth considering. I think that's a great idea, especially if not ALL the animals have effects. Keep them on their toes.
@@feywildfiend in my feywild many animals can speak, like in Narnia. So I've been giving lots of thought to the potential morality of eating meat there...
6:01 Nope, they're no more plants then we are. But I get what you mean. 7:17 Also, many systems have already beeen created as well as full on floras and faunas. I thought that you believed in stealing andd borrowing girl? ;-) 11:56 Its not "dumb" at all. Its also not quite me.
