User:DavidJCobb/Sandboxes/Tree-Minders

The tree-minders are Argonian shamans that commune with the Hist and tend to Hist trees throughout Black Marsh. Tree-minders work to protect Hist trees from natural threats; they also work to defend Hist trees from enemies of the Argonian people, enlisting aid from outsiders if necessary. Some tree-minders assume responsibility for local wildlife, including dreugh.

Tree-minders have an emotional connection to their Hist tree, allowing them to sense the tree's discomfort and distress. They are also very mindful of their environment; they never leave lit fires unattended.

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• Check for a Hist tree in Bogmother, Shadowfen, Black Marsh. If there isn't one, then the tree-minders there are charged with caring for local wildlife instead of a Hist tree, not in addition to one.

• In dialogue, the term is grammatically comparable to titles like "president" or "prime minister:" capitalize it as "Tree-Minder" when it's part of a name, and use all-lowercase for a noun. Capitalization of the noun form may occur in lore materials.

• Description for ESO's "Tree-Minder" costume identifies tree-minders as "Argonians who commune with the Hist."

• Tree-minders are caretakers for Hist trees? The name would imply it.
  • Lore:From the records of Ah-Tee, Tree Minder, written by a tree-minder, describes what it's like to care for a Hist tree.
  • Online:Tree-Minder Deyapa's quest involves a Hist tree.
  • Online:Tree-Minder Nexith's quest involves an attack on a Hist tree.
  • Online:Uta-Tei is a former tree-minder who directly states that she tended to a Hist tree.
• Tree-minders uninvolved with the Hist?
  • Online:Tree-Minder Raleetal's quest does not involve a Hist, and she is stated to serve with multiple other tree-minders. (This apparently includes Online:Tree-Minder Nuleez.) However, I don't recall whether or not there was a Hist tree in the area.

• Dialogue in Online:Saving the Relics states that tree-minders never leave a fire unattended — at least, not willingly.

• Lore:On Argonians speculates that all Argonians' biological function depend on Hist sap or on the Hist itself. The work also non-speculatively states that tree-minders serve as shamans. (Is this in-universe author a credible source? He's pretty blatantly disdainful of Black Marsh, though it's not clear whether that disdain extends to the Argonians themselves, or to their customs.)
  • ON:Ja-Reet has no documented exposure to the Hist or, presumably, its sap prior to his trip to Percolating Mire. Of course, the effects of Hist sap could be heritable...

• I wonder what Online:Empowered Tree-Minder Totem is?

• Online:Ruuvitar's Journal makes reference to magical or alchemical "processes utilized by a 'Tree-Minder,'" but does not go into detail.