Ama Tree (Ah MA)

Children of the Seblug

Ethae myth tells us that it was through Aterleg and his seven Elder Tree that all plant life was born onto Aldern. While the reality of this seems untrue, it is known that at least one form of life came from the seed of an elder trees, the Ama tree and Umu Tree. The distinction between the two tree types is minute, with the ama grew in the Great Forest of the West, Karasaanu, while the umu grow elsewhere in Ethae. The two types are identical in all other ways. They produce Daanan Magic as their parent trees, though to a lesser extent. They grow hundreds of thin trunks from a single seed. These trunks grow close together and tight, many extending high about the forest canopy. Elf communities that find an early growth will spend decades, even centuries guiding these growing trunks. They weave them around each other, building whole towns in the depths of the trees.

The ama trees were often known as elven trees, or areian trees, at points in history. It was the ama, and the umu trees that were the traditional homes of the Woyd'are elves. Most remaining Ama today are a closely guarded secret.