Fantasy Monster: Bonsai Treant

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Bonsai Treant

A little anthropomorphic tree, all vibrant green and brown, with a little bow tied at the top.

CR 1; XP 400
N Tiny Plant

Init +0; Senses low-light vision, sense water 60 ft.; Perception +8

Defense
AC 13, touch 12, flat-footed 13 (+1 natural, +2 size)
hp 15 (2d8+6)
Fort +6; Ref +1; Will +4

Immune plant traits

Offense
Speed 20 ft., climb 10 ft.

Melee 2 slam +3 (1d3)

Space 2-1/2 ft.; Reach 0 ft.

Spell-Like Abilities (CL 2nd, concentration +2)

1/day—goodberry (grown on its own branches)

Statistics
Str 10, Dex 10, Con 16, Int 11, Wis 17, Cha 11
Base Atk +1; CMB –1; CMD 9

Feats Run

Skills Climb +8, Perception +8, Stealth +13

Language understands Sylvan

SQ plant feel

Ecology
Environment forests
Organization solitary, pair, or nursery (5–20)
Treasure standard

Special Abilities

Plant Feel (Su) A bonsai treant unconsciously connects with nearby vegetation that form a coherently and meaningfully continuous patch—such as a field, a grove, or even a thickly grown forest, and its own mood and behavior reflects the mood and state of the place, as felt by the plants.

Sense Water (Ex) A bonsai treant can sense presence of water within 60 feet. By concentrating for a round it can discern between fresh, brackish, and salt water, and determine general direction toward the largest source of water nearby.

Bonsai treants are grown from cuttings taken from actual treants, and then carefully tended to by a skilled gardener until they naturally awaken to their inherent child-like sapience.

Individual bonsai treants have varied personalities, but they are all sensitive to the state of local vegetation, both physical and spiritual, often sensing the mood of a place before it can be estimated by actual observations. They are more lively in places of life and fertility and morose where life is diminished or corrupted. They get confused or scared where life and death mix.

Small flocks of bonsai treants might tend to places of natural power, magical groves, and otherworldly glades.

Growing a bonsai treant familiar for oneself requires a cutting of a treant taken with the entity's permission, Improved Familiar feat, and 5 ranks of Profession (gardening), though an unconfirmed story mentions a wizard finding a long forgotten nursery of wild treant saplings.