Re: Shattered Soul for tartarians. Do tell !
 

Actually, the hobbits encountered one tree with a rotten center when Tom Bombadil happened to come their way. It cast Sleep on them, and then tried to drown them. That tree was seemingly dying AND immobile - rather like the unique Treelords we have ATM. So, if the current Treelords were changed into powerful cross-path mages and there were other tree beings, with less magic but more combat potential. Perhaps something modeled after Entwives, who made the first farms and orchards.



What about some kind of a construct? Golems are weak to Astral mages, Gargoyles lack the magic resistance, Siege Golems lack slots and Iron Dragons even more so... Perhaps something like a huge Clayman, similar in size to the Colossal Fetisch, with cold vulnerability but lightning resistance?

What kind of innate abilities could replace some of the slots? It'd be much easier if the proposals didn't all have to have all slots available.

Re: Shattered Soul for tartarians. Do tell !
 

I don't think the Treelord replacement needs to have all slots available. Boots would be silly, and they probably should not have a chest slot, but should have very good natural armor. Also, a head slot would be hard to imagine.

What about 2-4 arm slots (they have lots of branches), and 3 misc. slots (again, they have lots of branches). Good MR, and a special ability to tear down walls (+25 siege bonus??)

Re: Shattered Soul for tartarians. Do tell !
 

I think that 2 - 9 arms slots and 2 - 5 misc slots would be fun.

I was thinking of the trees that Treebeard sends to fight (well, it was not much of a fight, more fo a one sided massacre) Saruman's orc army sometime near the defeat of Isengard.

Ah, found the name : Huorns. Those do move, and the tree that the hobbits met could have been of of them.