Akoni, male dryad |
Nymphs are rustic fey tied to specific environments. According to Mazes & Minotaurs, these environments include woods (dryad), rivers (naiad), seas (nereid), mountains (oread), swamps (limniad), and valleys (napaea).
The concept of a male dryad is nonsensical for the two reasons I mentioned above, as well as a third I mention only now. According to The Oxford Classical Dictionary, the male equivalent of nymphs are the curetes (meaning "youth," i.e. a young man). This refers to a specific group of rustic immortals in the myths, but I see not reason not to expand it to include all the male counterparts of nymphs.
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