Power: 5 | Speed: 6 | Rarity: Rare | World Region: The Thorn Sanctuaries
Origins: Thorn Druid tends the Thorn Sanctuaries with the reverence of someone who understands that thorns have been evolving combat applications since before the current affinity structure. A 5/6 stat line with access to the complete thorn network of the sanctuary makes every attack layer in ways the stat alone doesn't represent. The ritual isn't ceremony. It's activation.
Finishing Move: Thorn Ritual: Performs the Thorn Ritual – an ancient ceremony that calls every thorn-capable plant in the Sanctuary into active combat alignment. The 5 Power is the druid. The thorns are the ritual.
Synergy & Rivalry: The ritual card in Nature Rares. Earth's Oak Knight is its cross-affinity formally trained peer – two Rare-tier practitioners of ancient traditions who fight with institutional knowledge rather than improvisation, and who have developed a mutual respect that formal adversaries rarely develop.
