He'd think, at first glance, that they were some form of undead treant - but he soon caught the sparkle of lightning crackling through the cracks in their bark, and realised that these were imbued with an incredible amount of lightning power - they were alive, and being powered by the lightning within them, likely in pain the entire time, almost more elemental than treant.<br/><br/>As evidenced when two additional trees, about fifty feet away, hurled bolts of lightning at the group. (32 and 38 electric damage, DC 15 Ref)