Loremaster wrote:Are the Tree Elders related to Nor Yekith's Entka?
It doesn't look that way to me. They are peace-lovers. There doesn't seem to be Malice in them. Bhakti's final gift was to Unbind himself, and have his essence flow into the Love Maples that he had created many turns previously, and pumped up with another drp a few turns later. Such an act could have given those trees a bit of an evolutionary jump.
Also, they have a great affinity for forests and jungles, and can command trees. Although we don't yet know what Eiran looks like at the beginning of P3, I suspect the forests and jungles will be closer in nature to Shakari than to the forest Nor Yekith mutated in Nor Pupae, so things with affinity for them are more likely from Bhakti than from Nor Yekith.
(Good thing I have a real life, and don't devote too much time and thought to something as trivial as this crap, eh?

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Of course, this is my reasoning. Zephyr actually knows the truth of it all, but he won't tell me. Bastard likes his little secrets. "Oooo, look at me! I'm sooooo smart! Want me to tell you the answer? OK, I will. NOT!" He's a real stick in the mud sometimes.