Hera Pear

It would seem there’s hardly anything exotic or strange about this pear tree: its leaves may be a little greener, the yellow fruits a bit more succulent and polished. But what these pears can do is unparalleled: completely heal one of a disease, be that person a mortal or changeling. Consuming a single pear will rid the person of one disease of that person’s choice, anything from ringworm to bone cancer. (Derangements do not count.) As always, though, the pear extracts a cost upfront: every Hera Pear tree is guarded by a powerful hobgoblin. This hobgoblin may take any form, whether a pack of briarwolves or some monstrous serpent coiled around the base of the tree. One must defeat the hobgoblin to pluck a pear — or, at least, somehow get past it long enough to snatch one from the branches. For those that do acquire the fruit, it will be the absolute smoothest, juiciest pear to have ever graced your tastebuds.

Habitat

Hera Pear trees cannot be transplanted. Some say they only grow near the “center” of the Hedge, if such a thing even exists. (Further legend suggests that to find a Hera Pear tree means that you’re at the point of no return — keep going past it, and you’re now on the wrong side of the Hedge, the one closest to the kingdom of the Keepers.) It is not known if any have traversed past the tree as none have ever reported to have done so; they have only heard tales.