The Mangrove Dryad is a curious creature. The salt water swamp that nourishes its home tree has bred a tough, pragmatic defender that isn't above using force to get what it wants from an adventuring party. Whilst it prefers nonviolence it is entirely capable of it and the mobile corpses it animates to protect its trees sproutlings can be viscious if an adventurer is caught unawares... Instinct: To protect its host tree

• Throw and explosive seed pod
• Entrance an Adversary
• Animate the Dead