Barbed Fields
The valley north of Rosohna is covered by this broken and marred landscape of jagged rock, sunken craters, and scabrous, hooked spires of glass and rock jutting from the ground. It is said that the final battles of the Calamity were fought on this valley floor. The earth is so scarred here that few question the veracity of this legend. Treacherously unpredictable earth crumbles into sinkholes surrounded by thick, caustic tar pits that swallow careless wanderers, while the storms common to the region bring rain-slicked mud traps and flash floods.
However, powerful relics and armaments have been recovered from these ancient battlefields, so the strong and the stupid occasionally venture into the dangerous fields, often finding themselves hunted by the monsters that lurk in this ruined domain. It is rumored that toward the center of the barren fields grows a beautiful, towering tree that grew from the final seed left by Melora before she vanished to her realm beyond the Divine Gate. Powerful followers of the Wildmother sometimes make a pilgrimage to this tree for guidance and communion, but the fields are so fraught with evil that few ever return.
Arbor Exemplar
The Arbor Exemplar is a lone, giant tree that grows in the midst of the barren wasteland that is the Barbed Fields. It is four to five hundred feet tall, about 30 feet in diameter and the lowest branches are approximately three hundred feet from the ground, with a lush, leafed canopy defying the desolate barrens surrounding it. It is surrounded by verdant grass about ten to fifteen feet from it, which grows out a hundred feet or so during the night and then retracts during the day.
Following the final confrontation and the banishing of the Betrayer Gods, towards the end of the Calamity and the following Divergence, before all of the prime deities left Exandria to go beyond and construct the Divine Gate, the Wildmother buried this seed within the most desolate land at the time, to leave behind a beacon of life and hope in a place in which absolute destruction, at that time, reigned. It is considered the sister tree to the Seed of Rebirth, which is the tree that resides in the center of The Abundant Terrace of Vasselheim.
However, powerful relics and armaments have been recovered from these ancient battlefields, so the strong and the stupid occasionally venture into the dangerous fields, often finding themselves hunted by the monsters that lurk in this ruined domain. It is rumored that toward the center of the barren fields grows a beautiful, towering tree that grew from the final seed left by Melora before she vanished to her realm beyond the Divine Gate. Powerful followers of the Wildmother sometimes make a pilgrimage to this tree for guidance and communion, but the fields are so fraught with evil that few ever return.
The Arbor Exemplar is a lone, giant tree that grows in the midst of the barren wasteland that is the Barbed Fields. It is four to five hundred feet tall, about 30 feet in diameter and the lowest branches are approximately three hundred feet from the ground, with a lush, leafed canopy defying the desolate barrens surrounding it. It is surrounded by verdant grass about ten to fifteen feet from it, which grows out a hundred feet or so during the night and then retracts during the day.
Following the final confrontation and the banishing of the Betrayer Gods, towards the end of the Calamity and the following Divergence, before all of the prime deities left Exandria to go beyond and construct the Divine Gate, the Wildmother buried this seed within the most desolate land at the time, to leave behind a beacon of life and hope in a place in which absolute destruction, at that time, reigned. It is considered the sister tree to the Seed of Rebirth, which is the tree that resides in the center of The Abundant Terrace of Vasselheim.
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