A witch (druid, but in Drustvar and other human cultures they proudly go by witch) will sacrifice an animal and together with straps and wood + druidic magic, will be able to take on/possess the corpse through the death side of the life/death balance beam, a sacred, not evil form of necromancy.
Am I wrong? I am really curious about why druids would take on the form of something specifically with a skull as its head (suggesting death, or a dead body in other words)
(p.s I know Druids can take on essencially any form, but I don’t understand why a dead body, other than being respectful and using the corpse one last time kinda)
What are your thoughts on why the Kul Tiran Druids take on wicker/dead body animal forms?
Because nature is cyclical. Instead of arcane and nature magic, druids (balance) should be using nature and death. I really wish this was emphasized more in game. Also they learned from the Drust which tended to the death side of druidism.
^This is my take. They’re not made of wicker, the wickerbeasts look completely different. And it’s because the Kul Tirans draw their druidic powers from Ardenweald instead of the Emerald Dream.
Just Google kultiran druid lore and you can find the info you seek. I’d copy and paste stuff but I’m mobile and lazy. Interesting subject though,never really thought about it before.
I have, but being honest - I don’t understand it
I can understand there is energy in death and they wield this, but isn’t that essentially necromancy
Because the Drust druids were the other side of the coin. Druids are about balance. They will kill to keep balance. The Drust focused more on that side.
Is not necromancy, they are not skulls, they are barks, they just look like skulls because it’s tree bark that grows over the animal’s skills.
" The magic of this place is deep and profound. It has come to inhabit some of the animals of the region. They are powerful manifestations of nature to be respected."
Thornspeakers look like that because druids often look like the animals of the areas where they come from.
But here’s the thing - it is a skull because not only do the Thornspeakers talk about using both bark and bone, but if you look at the animal forms they are skulls with glowing green energy in them, and the bodies are decaying flesh
So the heads show teeth + head as one unit, without flesh ie the skull
In the very first couple of quests in Drustvar, and I don’t think the body is made to look a certain way randomly to look scary, those are markings on the flesh, like decay, and then the body itself is held together by what look like taxidermy straps
I kinda wish there were weird strands of hair on the Drust druid forms.
Witches often believe power is stored in hair. People would even burn or bury hair off deceased to prevent witches from cutting the hair off and using it for spells.
But them going the whole twisted wood appearance was nice too.
I’d copy and paste stuff but I’m mobile and lazy. Interesting subject though,never really thought about it before.