Traits

Base Breeds (Standard, Royal, Pointe, Glacial) only.

Those who have the Heartwood Bloodline have a strong, intimate connection with trees.
They do not have nearly as expansive of flora-healing abilities as the Blooming Bloodline does, but they do have unique features and abilities. 

This bloodline grants a deep connection to nature and plant life. Heartwood Arkaines can encourage rapid plant growth in trees & saplings. They also have the innate ability to communicate with ancient trees, but they can only listen to the 'whispers' in the leaves - they cannot have a conversation of sorts. The Heartwood Bloodline also has the impressive defensive ability to temporarily transform parts of their body into wood or bark.

Like an Arkaine's crystals grow naturally from their body, a Heartwood Bloodline Arkaine has growths of wood.
Depending on the type of wood, sometimes it will sprout branches, and grow leaves or cones/needles. 
These wooden growths are natural, and ever-growing so long the Arkaine is healthy.

These natural wooden growths are specific and unique to an Arkaine - meaning if a player chooses an 'aspen' to be their chosen tree, they will be the only Arkaine allowed to use that tree for their Heartwood Bloodline.
Heartwood Bloodline wood/trees will always be unique to each Arkaine, meaning there will never be any duplicates (UNLESS permission has been given, and the Arkaines are blood-related or story-tied).

Heartwood Natural Growths Can Be...: deciduous trees & coniferous trees
Heartwood Natural Growths Cannot Be...: shrubs, flowers, berries, fruits, herbs, vines, and aquatic plants | spore-bearing flora, including ferns, liverworts/hornworts, mosses, algae, and mushrooms

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