Couldn’t sleep so I did a bad rough sketch of another creature. If you don’t like reading useless worldbuilding, feel free to ignore this

Creature Name: Treekin (Plural – Treeka)
Primordial Heritage: Nature
Habitat: Cinder Wastes
Hostility: Extremely aggressive, little intelligence
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Description:
“Tyxe save you if you’re ever exiled to these wastelands like me… If you ever feel the ground beneath you shifting, or you hear wood splintering, you best damn hope you have a chance to run.”
– Unknown Exiled Valkyrie.

Treeka are rotting entities composed of ash, decaying wood, and dead foliage. They exist within the Cinder Wastelands, an ashy and uninhabitable land scarred by war. The Treeka are a side effect from the Twilight War, with an entire portion of Valkyria being torched into this toxic wasteland of ash, rot, and death. While the process that makes these putrid creatures isn’t well understood, it is thought to be the result of ash, rotted corpses, and dead trees being mixed together into a repulsive amalgam capable of generating these husks, barely clinging to their original forms. The anatomy of a Treekin varies, each one susceptible to their limbs being wildly out of place, arms and legs forming in odd places, missing body parts, stubby or sharpened appendages emerging where they shouldn’t, and a rotting wooded skin. Their eyes leak a dark liquid, found to be a mixture of ash and rotted blood. Some Treeka have even been known to emit poisonous and searing hot ashy gas from their pores and mouths.
Due to their irregular body shapes and malformities, a singular Treekin is of little threat on its own. However, Treeka rely on numbers and the element of surprise to overwhelm their prey. When more than two Treeka attack at once, they swarm their victims en masse in little regard for their own life, sometimes letting themselves be impaled by a weapon just to draw closer to attack distance, leaving one little room to maneuver or escape. Treeka form small colonies in the ashy soil, and some members are used as early warning systems, using vines and branches hidden in the soil to entangle their targets for their colony of around 5-10 members to ambush them. While Treeka generally appear to be mindless savages, there has been reports of Treeka engaging in bizarre rituals with their mauled prey, such as vomiting ash onto the corpse, burying it up to its neck, or mounting it on a wooden stake through its chest. These ritualistic acts were observed by a Valkyrian Expeditionary Force, and it is still unclear what these rituals signify.