Celaborans
Celaborans are a people of living trees. They are native to Celaboran Forest, which is named for them.
Feeding
Celaborans do not eat. They reclaim: they draw in dull, spent pneuma left behind by casting, dying and dissonance, and return it to use.
This makes them scavengers in the sense that nature is a scavenger. A place overgrown by Celaborans is a place that has been abandoned and taken back. They gather where things have ended — battlefields, ruins, worked-out sites — because that is where the spent pneuma is.
They are not hostile to the living and do not hunt. They arrive afterward.
Elemental alignment
Celaborans are associated with earth and water, the two media a tree lives between. How literal this is — cultural, or their bodies partly bound to those media — is unsettled.
Open questions
- Do Celaborans generate any pneuma of their own, or only reclaim? Considered and deliberately left open.
- Are they place-bound, and can a Celaboran leave the forest?
- What happens to one cut off from spent pneuma — death, or dormancy?
- Lifespan, speed, memory.
- Whether groves are world-critical infrastructure (a region's magic depending on them) or simply one people among others.