| Category | Races |
| Type | fey |
| Creation | 2 Witchrite 127 GE |
| Language | Sylvan |
| Native | Bal-Kriav |
The first wood woad was created by Huemutril. Through a complex ritual, now known as Huemutril's Digits, she transferred a subject's energy into a tree. It was offered as a means of rebirth for those with broken bodies, near death, or those fanatical to the cause of the Covenant's nature commanders - Huemutril, Silvanus, and for a time, Melrith.
The ritual that generated a wood woad involved extracting the heart of a living individual, embedding a seed within it, and situating it inside a cavity in a tree The sacrificed entity's corpse was entombed in the surrounding area, and the tree was then drenched with the sacrifice's blood After a period of three days, a wood woad would emerge from the ground nearby, prepared to accept its directives, which it would then dutifully execute in perpetuity or until relieved of its duties[1]
After the Demon Spawn War (89 GE - 269 GE), mortal allies like the wood woads were absolved of their responsibilities. Lacking the means to naturally augment their population, their numbers steadily declined over time. The period they referred to as the Long Winter endured for a millennium.
Surprisingly, despite a significant decline in their numbers from 100,000 in the post-war era to a mere 10,000 a millennium later, the wood woads adapted to the hardship, becoming leaner, more agile, and honed to near-perfection. The 12th generation of wood woads is what we have today.
Springflower, a regional report delivered at the Glade Summit - "12th Evolution"
In the Lith-Crillion Era, scholars at the Pyramid of Life acquired Huemutril's renowned spellbook, Falling Leaves. Seeking allies to combat the eldritch giants of Gulfrek Hjard, they shared the tome's secrets with amicable druids, paving the way for an emergence of additional wood woads.