[550]Dog through window

I kinda think it IS Ysengrin. Note the quivering lines near its legs.

But Coyote bestowed the "gift" of being a tree to Ysengrin.
I'm sure that coyote is already in Gillitie wood, considering he is supposedly the one who separated the court from the wood, but
I was under the impression that Reynardine received his gift first, and that would insinuate that Reynardine is already in love with Surma.
Unless I'm totally wrong, I think this is something else, but still related to coyote.

That thing does look like Reynard though I can't see any eyes on it. But, if I remember right, I think Reynard asked Coyote for that body-snatching power after he met Surma for the purpose of being with her as a human, so if that is him this can't be their first meeting.

I said "About to." The Not-so-bright robot made reference to possibly two creatures. Reynard may come in sooner rather than later. I'm almost positive that that is, indeed, Ysengrin. However, They had to meet some time... And I imagine it's going to come along fairly soon. Why exactly Ysengrin is crashing through the widow in what looks like attack mode, I don't know. I imagine we'll find out shortly. Or, we'll just see more awesomeness... Like Tree Ysengrin fighting what looks like actual Fighting Robots. Fighting Robots add awesome to a lot of things.

You should take into consideration that Tom loves to be vague.

He'll sometimes throw out straight information, but more often than not we're not given any blatant facts to work with.

Given the situation, I'd say that the Treemutt is either:

Reynardine, who has been caught in the act of murdering a student post-possession, now on the run; or Ysengrin (Or something sent by him) to retrieve Reynardine from the court.

My first thought was Reynardine, since he's proven to be able to morph any body he possesses if it is malleable enough to change it's shape. But trees aren't that flexible (And don't usually have eyes), and the trembling is consistent with Ysengrin.

I don't think it's Renard, simply because it looks more like a wolf than a fox. Well, that and it doesn't have eyes. In fact it almost seems to make a point of not having eyes. But really, I think if Renard took that form, he'd have the ability to take any shape he wanted(within reason), so I think he'd be a fox, not a wolf. Remember - it's Annie's doll that's a wolf, not Renard.

As to whether it's Ysengrin, the shaking does seem to support that(though he could just be skittering to a stop), and just because Surma, Anja and Donald saw him doesn't mean the court would automatically find out. Even the robots aren't a guarantee, considering that they seem pretty separate from the court hierarchy.

On the other hand, the last time we saw Ysengrin, in the future, he had the face of a wolf, not a tree. He had the arms and legs of a tree, but it's really hard to shape that fur out of bark.

On the OTHER other hand, if his tree arms and legs form more of a suit than a body, powered armor-style, this could be an unimaginative first version that just covers his whole body. As such, he may not have even been recognized.

Also, it's likely, on reflection, that the Headmaster's comments reflect the fact that Ysengrin had basically turned himself into a human, not that he had used tree magic to do so.

Haha, I love how you guys always come up with funny alternative names for things in the GC-verse. It happened with Zimmingham, and now we have Treemutt and Bonsaiwolf!

However, I think this is just an ordinary treemonster, not Reynardine or Ysengrim. What I'm not exactly sure is whether there's two of them. I think so, because otherwise Tom wouldn't have drawn it again, no sense to it.

What I'm wondering is whether these are the Rogat Orjak. Of course, they look nothing like the Rogat Orjak in that explanation page. But this set me to wonder just how much Reynardine might've altered the body he snatched, perhaps that's why it turned all white. We see that he alters his current body, so... Makes you wonder what an original Rogat Orjak looks like, sans Reynardine. Of course, most likely there's no significant difference, as evidenced by the explanation page on the Rogat Orjaks.

There's just one, I think. If you look, the hallway has windows on both sides. It jumped in through one window and out the other and is now outside under the corridor bridge.

Oh yeah, and the gang is all gathered in front of the crack to see what's happening down there. You're right, Ulysses, I just glanced over the page and didn't pay enough attention to the details.

Still, I'm not entirely convinced that this is Ysengrim, I think it's a random Bonsaiwolf monster.

I can't believe this hasn't been said yet...

"Quick! Throw a stick to distract him!"

... or maybe the rest of the forum has better taste.

The idea of Bonsaiwolf being a brand new character honestly hadn't occured to me. Personally don't think he is, but it's always possibly.
The closest I'll get to that is saying that Bonsaiwolf isn't Ysengrim or another wolf wrapped in 'tree', but rather a tree being manipulated into wolf shape by Ysengrim or Coyote i.e. Bonsaiwolf is solid tree the whole way through, with no mind of it's own.
Personally I think it's between wolf-shaped tree and tree-shaped Ysengrim.

Well, when Eglamore turned up with longer hair, we all thought it was a new character. Forgive us for trying to avert another such occurrence.

Or we could all just wait until the story unfolds and we find out! ...no? Okay. ._.

Hehe, where's the fun in that? XD

I kinda think it's funny that nobody thinks it's Coyote. I mean, if Ysengrin got his power from coyote, it would follow that Coyote has the same power, no?

That said, it would be very cool if this were just a new, awesome, dogtree character. Coyote mentioned that there were "powerful dog creatures who rained misery and joy on the humans." It's possible there's one we haven't met yet.

More importantly though - cool, glowy robot thingies on bottom right! Sweet fight coming up! Or, will we see Surma's budding mediation talents in action?