History Main / ArborealAbode

* In ''GunnerkriggCourt'', the Anwyn of Gillitie Wood use magic to shape trees into structural supports for their houses. This is mainly shown in the side comic "Annie in the Forest".

* ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'' Classic supplement ''Alien Module 8 - Darrians: Secret of the Star Trigger''. When the Darrians were first brought to their new planet they lived inside hollowed out trees inside large orchards. The trees grew nutritious fruits for them to eat.

* Many of the characters in ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'', Piglet and Pooh himself most notably.

* [[DaisyOwl Mr Owl ]] and his two adopted, human kids live in one, [[http://www.daisyowl.com/comic/2008-07-14 which probably isn't up to code]].

** Successfully accomplished with the Smurflings, who live together in a hollowed-out tree stump with a mushroom cottage built over it.

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'' has Frontier Village, home of the [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Nopon]]. It's a massive monstrosity of a hollow tree that borders on LayeredMetropolis, with its 9 levels connected by stairs and rope bridges. Oh, it also has a small lake on its top and a massive floating sea above it.

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'' has Frontier Village, home of the [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Nopon]]. It's a massive monstruosity of a hollow tree that borders on LayeredMetropolis, with its 9 levels connected by stairs and rope bridges. Oh, it also has a small lake on its top and a massive floating sea above it.

* Slappy Squirrel from ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' lived in a tree.

** In ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' magazine #73, module "Forest of Doom," The Drow have hollowed out part of a gigantic tree and built a fortress inside of it.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
** In Dragon magazine #73, module "Forest of Doom," The Drow have hollowed out part of a gigantic tree and built a fortress inside of it.

** At least in early editions, dryads live inside hollowed-out trees.

* Slappy Squirrel from ''WesternAnimation/Animaniacs'' lived in a tree.

* Terry Pratchett's ''Discworld/TheColourOfMagic'' has the useless wizard Rincewind captured by classical Graecian tree-spirits, the Dryads. They have resolved the "we live in a tree but the tree is still green and flourishes, indeed we and the tree need each other to thrive" paradox by being multi-dimensional - indeed their Tree shares many attributes of a Tardis, by being far larger on the inside than on the outside. The Tree of the Dryads and the great forest tree they seemingly inhabit may not occupy EXACTLY the same dimension of space-time...

* The Wolfriders in ''ElfQuest'' live in a "Father Tree" that's subdivided into several homes. Fully justified because their tree-shapers can keep a tree alive and well while sculpting it into the required shape.

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* Home Tree in ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' is honeycombed with natural spaces where the Na'vi live.

* In ''MySideOfTheMountain'' Sam makes his home in a tree. Probably one of the more realistic examples you're likely to find.

* Terry Pratchett's ''TheColourOfMagic'' has the useless wizard Rincewind captured by classical Graecian tree-spirits, the Dryads. They have resolved the "we live in a tree but the tree is still green and flourishes, indeed we and the tree need each other to thrive" paradox by being multi-dimensional - indeed their Tree shares many attributes of a Tardis, by being far larger on the inside than on the outside. The Tree of the Dryads and the great forest tree they seemingly inhabit may not occupy EXACTLY the same dimension of space-time...
* Larry Niven's ''The Integral Trees'' had an example of this In Space: a neutron star orbited by a ring-shaped cloud of breathable gas, where huge, multi-kilometer-long "integral trees" orbited within and provided shelter, nourishment, and raw materials for humans who colonized the system.

* In ''MisterRogersNeighborhood of Make Believe'', X the Owl lived behind a door on the trunk of a tree. (Henrietta Pussycat lived in the same tree, but in a small house attached to a branch, so that doesn't count.)

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', Dragon magazine #73 module "Forest of Doom". The Drow have hollowed out part of a gigantic tree and built a fortress inside of it.

* Ariel, from Shakespeare's "TheTempest," is found by the sorceror Prospero inside a tree, though whether the spirit lives there or is merely caught is sometimes debated.

* Link lives in an arboreal abode in both OcarinaOfTime and TwilightPrincess.
* SNES RPG ''SailorMoonAnotherStory'' has the Sailor Senshi splitting up and going around the world. Sailor Jupiter visits the exotic, mysterious land of ''Canada'' where people live ''inside trees''.
* Quite a lot of the Minish in ''TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap'' live in trees.
* The residents of Fortree City in PokemonRubyAndSapphire.
* The citizens of Cleyra in FinalFantasyIX live in a giant tree that is protected by a sandstorm.
* Telvanni wizards from ''{{Morrowind}}'' live in humongous tree-like fungi.

* Fairly common in ''KevinAndKell'': The title characters and the recently married Lindesfarne and Fenton have residences in large hollowed-out trees.

* Many of the characters in ''WinnieThePooh'', Piglet and Pooh himself most notably.
* BugsBunny lives in a tree in at least one cartoon, "The Case of the Missing Hare".

* Finn and Jake from ''AdventureTime'' live in one.
* Chip and Dale lived in a furnished base in ''ChipNDaleRescueRangers''.
* The ''KidsNextDoor'' have their HomeBase in a tree; they all have regular houses to go back to but they spend all day there anyway.
* In the film ''OnceUponAForest'' Cornelius lives in a tree, with windows and doors carved into it, and a library on the inside. [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight Lucky thing the humans never notice it later in the film.]]

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See also TreeTopTown

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* Home Tree in ''{{Avatar}}'': the tree is honeycombed with natural spaces where the Na'vi live.

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* ''TheBerenstainBears'' live in a beautifully furnished tree.

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* ''DungeonsAndDragons'', Dragon magazine #73 module "Forest of Doom". The Drow have hollowed out part of a gigantic tree and built a fortress inside of it.

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* In ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' Twilight Sparkle lives in a tree which has room not only for living quarters, but for an entire library.
* Many of the characters in WinnieThePooh, Piglet and Pooh himself most notably.

* Parodied on ''TheSimpsons''. In "Saddlesore Galactica", horse racing jockeys are revealed to actually be subterranean elf-like creatures who live in "a fibreglass tree".