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Thanks! I hadn't imagined them as the wode's immune system but that's such a cool idea of the function they could serve.

Their visuals are one of the things I really wish I had more space to expand on but between struggling to nail down a coherent description and wanting to include as many statblocks as I could fit it was the easiest thing to leave out. In my mind their appearance is very malleable. I think when they first manifest they are maybe just formless beings that look like dark clouds or the night sky but the influence of the wode eventually lets them take on a more general fey/humanoid shape, closest reference is maybe the dnd quickling art. Doldrums in my mind look sort of like the rock trolls from frozen but still with that cloudy/starry sky texture and the anniv ursare is the same but in the form of a bear, the rest I don't have a strong visual image for. And then when they join up with some other type of fey they start to take on aspects of their appearance like the wode elf fur and ears or the high elf metal filigree patterns.