Gemweaving

Gemweaving is a traditional practice used by trifix in order to decorate their wood. It involves placing a crystal, jewellery, gems, gold pieces or anything of this kind into a wound made into the tree bark covering their body, and letting the wood grow around it, embedding it inside.

 

Trifix often use this when they become wounded in a fight, as a way to make their scars look prettier. The embedded oobjects are there permanently, and can only be removed with force. Removing them can cause permanent scars to the wood.

 

The process hurts when the wound is created, but the rest is just healing, and it doesn't hurt. In most cases, when the wound has been caused in battle, doing this adds no extra pain to the healing process.

 

Trifix don't only do this to their own bodies, but also to actual trees, like if there's a particularily special tree they would do this to it, or if a tree has been scarred by a boar or something else they would place jewelry inside the tree's wound.