Generally known as Tree Shepherds or Plant Herders, the Yeduah too are born from a natural world spirit and given physical form through a spell, similar to their close relatives, the Nixies. However, unlike their smaller cousins who act as tutors and assistants for a single Druid, Yeduah are created with the purpose of aiding an entire druidic community. When an environment is too vast, expansive, lush, or complex to control and monitor, a druidic circle performs a complex magical ritual to bring a Yeduah to life. Once the ritual is completed, multiple roots and tendrils will intertwine in a vegetal tangle with immense inner magical potential, from which a fruit will be generated, resembling a large woody pumpkin. For the first two or three days, this pumpkin will remain defenseless and exposed. Then, a thick and dense dome of brambles, tendrils, and sharp, thorned plants will begin to grow around it, inweaving a dome almost impossible to penetrate. From that moment on, a variable amount of time between 2 and 5 years must pass before the pumpkin-like seed/foetus can "hatch" and release a new Tree Shepherd into the world.
Yeduah have a roughly humanoid shape, although coarse and rudimentary. They can be defined as tree-men for all intents and purposes. A typical Yeduah stands 20 to 30 feet tall, with a trunk diameter of 2 feet, and weighing 2 tons. Yeduah are actual trees with heads, legs, and arms that tend to resemble the more common tree species in their respective environments. They are unable to speak and have limited intelligence, roughly equivalent to less evolved primates, which barely allows them to learn sign language. Yeduah have a pigheaded, ornery, and grumpy nature, although they are never mean or selfish. Throughout their lives, which can extend beyond an era, their sole purpose is to protect, guard, care for, and oversee the forest to which they have been assigned, either in place of or with the Druids.