*The Warrior Birch is well known for being one of the most dangerous plants in southern Ethyria.

Yet, people seem to overlook how fierce and resilient its seedlings are:

The shell is just as hard as stone and in a most fascinating way, it seems to grow a weapon for self defense within its body, just close enough to the sprout so that it may be ready and armed as it germinate.

Further observations have revealed an incredible evolutionary trait of its roots that allowed us to further understand the abilities of its more advanced stages.

It was already well known that Warrior Birches could use its roots as means of locomotion but what we had long since overlooked was how apparently it can also use them as means of perception.

As we have just recently discovered, the seedlings have small holes at its base from which four bundles of roots act as antennae similar to those of insects.

Reacting to the smallest vibrations in the air and acting as the seedling, and perhaps even a fully grown Birch Warrior's eyes and ears.*