Sprout : how the ent race refers to themselves.
Birth mother: the earth/dirt/ground.
Floaters : the inhabitants of the floating island.
Buds : what counts as brain parts in ents, the more the ent has the smarter he is, they become more with age or special training, older ents tend to meditate years on end solving complex problems only they will ever grasp with their enormous intellects.
Feeding cycle : day time.
30 buds : ent version of a teenage phase, can be skipped by training in bud sprouting.
Mineral crusts: mineral deposits and gemstones that the sprouts consume by absorbing them, the ent lands are extremely mineral rich, volcanoes spewing out valuable metals and molten gems are not uncommon, the birth mother as the ents call the ground has the higests concentration of minerals and metals anywhere in the world.
Growth cycle: night time
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The Floaters
Short Storya Short which serves as a depth creator ( background info ) for a set of other shorts which I am planning on completing in the next month or so. This short is set in a fantasy world and is focused around a race of living trees called ents. The worl...
