Yamato Treelium

The Yamato Treelium is a distinct subspecies of Treelium that evolved separately from the main Treelium species. This was due to becoming trapped on a small island on their home planet of Grillos Due to this, they evolved to have much different features and they also took much longer to become sentient and start a new civilization due to their confinement onto Yamato. Today though, they are comparable to most other sentient species and are certainly more intelligent than most, but a lot less mysterious & omnipotent than the hyper-intelligent Treelium that they evolved from.

History
The split between Yamato & original Treelium happened millions of years ago, when a large tsunami on Grillos brought a large group of Treelium over to Yamato island. The island was about 4,000 square miles, which was more than enough to survive, & thrive, but not enough to start a civilization. So the Yamato just adapted and thrived, using their intelligent to hunt and slowly adapting simple tools over time, meanwhile the main Treeliums were already starting civilizations, and working with iron. This didn’t change for a long time, until the Yamato finally learned how to use boats. Once the Treeliums discovered this lost & under developed sub-species of themselves, they became incredibly curious, often flying drones over their island & attempting to communicate and teach the Yamato. This of course, failed, and did nothing but instill fear and confusion amongst the Yamato. The Treeliums decided that the best thing to do for the Yamato would be to send them off to their own planet to keep them from being disturbed and to make it so that their resource extracting and expansion on Grillos wouldn’t impede on the Yamato’s own expansion.

So, the Treeliums executed their plan, and kidnapped and shipped off all Yamato, before dropping them off on a non-hostile planet that researchers found to be the most habitable for them. They were right, and after all of the shock and awe, Yamato Treeliums began expanding, and eventually over thousands of years becoming civilized and space fairing just like their counterparts. Although, by this time the Treeliums were so advanced that they have hidden themselves from other sentient beings, leaving them & their technology very mysterious. Meanwhile, the Yamato, while super intelligent, didn’t civilize themselves nearly as early & ended up civilizing around the same time as most other sentient species, although they were certainly a considerable amount earlier, leaving them with a huge technological advantage & making them begin to seclude themselves from the spotlight.

Famous Examples
The Yamato Treeliums find themselves too intelligent to bother with fame & celebrity, so they go out of their way to stay out of the spot light, as they consider the desire for popularity something that is materialistic and unnecessary. They view self-transcendence and intelligence as their top priorities. With this said, there are no famous examples, although they have recently began opening their doors a little more, to the disappointment of the more traditional &/or Self-Transcended Yamatos.

Abilities/Personality
In pre-civilized days the Yamato were intelligent predators who would use their clubbed tails to inflict serious damage to any larger species who it was trying to eat, or defend itself from. They would also use their claws to rip into prey, or dig burrows/nests for shelter (later to make tools) but the pre-civilized Treelium’s strongest attribute was its intelligence. As for personality, they were aggressive, but could quickly learn & could have been taught tricks or could have been domesticated similarly to wolves (except Yamato Treeliums weren’t typically pack hunters), but that never did end up happening.

As for Civilized Treeliums, they don’t use their bodily abilities for much of anything, and now rely solely on their intelligence, which is almost incomparable to most other sentient species. Their personality is generally rather stoic & wise. They are kind though, and treat other species very well, especially animals. They’re rarely ever in conflict, and violence is low in their communities, although with all things there are outliers. Self-Transcendentalism is a philosophy they hold dear, so everything that comes with that philosophy pretty much encapsulates their personality.