[Arhra]

And now for your first tough enemy. They're intended to be a duelist type, able to put up good fights one on one.

Name: Stonewood Dryads

Class: Insane - 1 will likely induce injuries and 2 working together will overwhelm a strong individual. They are remarkably tenacious and won't go down easily.

Appearance: Stonewood dryads are twisted, petrified versions of dryads. They look like your typical dryad - female, attractive, clothed in bark, vines and leaves and having treelike-traits except for two major differences. Firstly, they're made of stone. Yes, even their clothes - still flexible because of magic or something. Secondly, they have long slender claws and other natural weapons of a rather scary sharpness.

Abilities/weapons:
Superb Physique: No-one's quite sure if these dryads have been working out or are on something, but they are very strong, fast and tough.

Tree Phasing: Dryads can enter trees as if they aren't there, also being able to use this to move around inside the tree. A dryad could theoretically still be attacked while in a tree, but this is difficult to accomplish.

Tree Healing: Dryads heal insanely fast while inside a tree. Minor injuries heal instantaneously and even what would be a mortal wound will be fully healed within about half a minute.

Stone: The dryads are essentially living rock. It is hard to hurt a rock.

Petrification Transference: Something that makes the dryads particularly nasty is the fact their petrification is contagious. They can transfer their stony nature through physical contact, simultaneously unpetrifying themselves and turning their enemy into a statue. This process takes prolonged contact or several hits, but the problem is each hit will make their target slower and more ponderous while they themselves speed up. This wears off some time after the dryad dies.

Rapid Healing: While the dryads might become easier to hurt as they unpetrify, the bad news is that in addition to being quicker, they begin healing a whole lot faster even when outside trees. When fully restored to flesh, they heal stupendously fast - it will take a lot to take one out of commission. I'm talking just getting up after getting the crap beaten through them. Note this does not apply to doing things like regrowing lost parts, but they can do that while in trees.

Mysterious Ability X: To be revealed when the time is ripe.