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Post by Q Man on Jul 20, 2018 16:35:08 GMT -5
Do you have any form of Magic Tree in your campaign?
Anything along the lines of
Yggdrasil from the Norse myths
The Irish Clans each had a sacred tree and if you cut it down, you had great power over that Clan
The Two Trees of Tolkien
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant had a lone magic tree - "The One Tree" and all the magic staves in the entire land came from that tree.
The world tree is in a prominent position in book Rhapsody: Child of Blood the first book of a trilogy.
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Post by Hexenritter Verlag on Jul 20, 2018 16:45:55 GMT -5
In my Skârn setting I have Great Heart Trees, which act as portals to the Fey Wilds & the way Fey magic flows into the world. If cut down or corrupted it severs the ties to that Elfin forest kingdom driving the High Elves mad, eventually morphing into Dark Elves; while changing the lesser more mannish sylvan elves into shorter lives shadows of their former selves. I can go into more detail later.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2018 18:03:02 GMT -5
Yes. Especially trees struck by lightning or found in unusual, hard to find places.
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Post by True Black Raven on Jul 21, 2018 22:58:19 GMT -5
Oh yeah, you gotta have a world tree of some kind or another.
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Post by hengest on Apr 4, 2021 23:38:43 GMT -5
I love the idea of a world tree and am bumping this to see what current posters think about it.
My immediate thought while writing this post just now is a world tree that exists physically at a scale that allows PCs to be aware of it, at least generally, and to see their branch curving away into the distance. Perhaps it could go with a kind of very-post-technological apocalypse: cultures were seeded by settlers on this gigantic tree, their wireless power source failed, and they had to develop technology and magic to survive, while each "branch," now hopelessly out of touch with the others, retains its own "creation story" that accounts for their presence on the world tree and gives them a meaningful place on it.
Might be an engaging way to build a setting that in effect has multiple worlds that are really near each other and in principle could communicate (through magic).
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Post by Admin Pete on Apr 23, 2021 15:01:34 GMT -5
I love the idea of a world tree and am bumping this to see what current posters think about it. My immediate thought while writing this post just now is a world tree that exists physically at a scale that allows PCs to be aware of it, at least generally, and to see their branch curving away into the distance. Perhaps it could go with a kind of very-post-technological apocalypse: cultures were seeded by settlers on this gigantic tree, their wireless power source failed, and they had to develop technology and magic to survive, while each "branch," now hopelessly out of touch with the others, retains its own "creation story" that accounts for their presence on the world tree and gives them a meaningful place on it. Might be an engaging way to build a setting that in effect has multiple worlds that are really near each other and in principle could communicate (through magic). The World Tree exists in multiple dimensions/planes at the same time, although its appearance varies across the multiple worlds. Roots and twigs reach every where. Roots to the underworld and twigs everywhere else. |
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Post by Morton on Apr 24, 2021 23:25:01 GMT -5
The One Tree and the Staff to rule them all.
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