Great Trees

A mile, perhaps two miles away, the tree stood on a plain that dipped gently down toward the distant sea. Its shape was that of a beatiful brandy glass... but it towered at least a third of a mile into the night sky! ~ Brian Lumley, Hero of Dreams

This race of trees came to the Dreamlands from a dying planet far across the reaches of space and time. Only three members of the species were able to survive by having their life-leaves, or seeds, borne away from their world by a traveling sorcerer. One of three was planted in Asyur's Dreamlands. It currently is rooted near the city of Thalarion.

Such large trees quickly drain the soil around them of the nourishment they require to survive. So they creep along throughout their lives, moving less than one inch per day, sending their vast networks of roots deep underground to seek out the minerals needed to sustain them. The trees also have a series of tendrils which they send out over the surface of the ground to scout out the way ahead through hills, and across rivers if need be. These tendrils, which hang down from the tree's branches, can lift a man off the ground.

The leaves of these trees give off a pollen-like substance which the trees refer to as the Dust of Dreams. Anyone who inhales the dust, either while sleeping beneath one of these trees or from a supply gathered from such a tree, is immune to the effects of the spells Send Dreaming and Send Dreams. 

Each Great Tree carries with it all the memories of all its ancestors. They have a great deal of knowledge stored within them. Great Trees can communicate with other creatures telepathically if they are in physical contact with them.

The race is not aggressive, and will avoid violence at all costs. Their own death means little to them as long as they know that their life-leaf will live on to carry their memories.

When it is ready to reproduce, a tree will let its life-leaf loos to fly on the winds. It will travel for hundreds of miles until it finds suitable soil to plant itself in. The life-leaf of a great tree is quite large and capable of carrying several humans with it on its journey through the sky.

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Geographic Distribution

• The Surface World