The Void’s Botany Manual

By Lisset Sunshaker

Chapter 1 - Void Trees -

“Void Trees” are originally pieces from the World Tree that were “Corrupted” by the power of the abyss. These “Corrupted” pieces are called “Void Fibers” and are used by many abyssal powers. By purifying high quality Void Fibers, a “Blank Stem” can be made. These stems are nearly unbreakable, unmalleable, while barely reacting to any other outside stimuli. But by infusing the “Blank Stems” with different “Classifications” of magic, they can be imbued with special properties depending on which School of magic is used.
To Imbue the “Blank Stems” require expert planting and botany skills to plant the stems. Then when they are stimulated with different classes of magic they absorb the power and quickly grow to about 6-8 feet tall and grow 6-10 flowers. I have called these grown structures Void Trees.
Each different Void Tree’s flowers emulate a different property based on the methods of its creation. These flowers will bloom into fruits every 3 weeks. These fruits have much more potent properties than flowers. But the properties of eating a flower or fruit doesn’t stack with ones from other trees. Additionally, the positive or negative properties gained from ingesting these plants can’t be gained again after first consumption until the end of a long rest. Finally, from my testing flowers nor fruits can be planted to grow into any additional Void Trees or into any other form.
Currently I have discovered 8 different Void Trees each corresponding to the 8 different schools of magic. These are Abjuration, Conjuration, Divination, Enchantment, Evocation, Illusion, Necromancy, and Transmutation Trees. Each of the Trees and their properties are listed below.

Abjuration Tree:

• Hollow Blue colored trunk with green leaves and silver-blue flowers and fruits.
• Grows one new flower every week (10 days)
• Flowers turn into fruits every 3 weeks.
• When eaten, flowers grant 4d6+3 temporary hit points (lasts for 8 hours or until the end of a long rest).
• Flowers under pressure will turn into solid shards which are sturdy. They can be put into objects to increase their defense.
• When eaten, fruits grant 10d6+3 temporary hit points (lasts for 8 hours or until the end of a long rest).

Conjuration Tree:

• Hollow Yellow colored trunk with green leaves and pink-red flowers and fruits.
• Grows one new flower every week (10 days)
• Flowers turn into fruits every 3 weeks.
• When flowers are thrown they summons a pink fog cloud where it lands as in the Fog Cloud spell that last for 1 minute with no concentration
• When eaten, fruits randomly teleport the consumer to a location within 50ft. If there is no such location available then eating a fruit does nothing.
• When Fruits are thrown, they summon a random elemental where it lands. This elemental is indifferent to the thrower and has to be a basic cr 5 elemental.

Divination Tree:

• Hollow ice-blue colored trunk with green leaves and white flowers and fruits. 
• Grows one new flower every week (10 days) 
• Flowers turn into fruits every 3 weeks. 
• When eaten, flowers grant the user the Detect Thoughts spell without concentration. 
• Flowers, when concentrated, can be used to enhance divination objects to be much more accurate.
• When eaten, fruits grant truesight out to a range of 10ft.

Enchantment Tree:

• Hollow pink colored trunk with green leaves and purple flowers and fruits.
• Grows one new flower every week (10 days)
• Flowers turn into fruits every 3 weeks.
• When eaten, flowers soothe the consumer to sleep similar to the hitpoint effect of the sleep spell. On a DC 16 Wisdom save the consumer can wave off the effect.
• When eaten, fruits paralyze the consumer as the effects of the Hold Monster spell. The DC for the Wisdom save is 16.
• When Fruits are thrown, if they hit a creature it will “attack” the creature's mind. The creature takes effects as in Raulothim's Psychic Lance. The DC for the Intelligence save is 16.

Evocation Tree:

• Hollow red colored trunk with green leaves and yellow flowers and fruits.
• Grows one new flower every week(10 days)
• Flowers turn into fruits every 3 weeks.
• When eaten, flowers grant 3d4+3 healing.
• Flowers under pressure will turn into fire shards which are volatile. They explode when coming in contact with a creature causing 3d8 force damage in a 10ft radius. With a DC 16 Dexterity saving throw to take half damage.
• When eaten, fruits grant 8d6 + 3 healing.
• When Fruits are thrown, they explode violently as in the effects of a Fireball spell. But the damage for this is force. The DC for the Dexterity save is 16.

Illusion Tree:

• Hollow purple colored trunk with glassened leaves and dark red flowers and fruits.
• Grows one new flower every week(10 days)
• Flowers turn into fruits every 3 weeks.
• When eaten, flowers turn the user invisible as in the Invisibility spell without concentration.
• When flowers are thrown, when they hit a creature, the creature becomes frightened of the thrower after a DC 16 Wisdom save.
• When eaten, fruits turn the user invisible as in the Greater Invisibility spell without concentration.
• When Fruits are thrown, when they hit a creature, the creature must make a DC 16 intelligence save or be affected by the Mental Prison spell as created by the thrower.

Necromancy Tree:

• Hollow green colored trunk with withered branches. Instead of leaves this tree has black “Rips” on its branches.
• Gains one new rip every week(10 days)
• Rips are extremely volatile and must be handled carefully.
• When eaten, Rips affect the consumer under the Harm spell. The Dc for the Constitution save is 16.
• When under any pressure Rips transform into a Wraith which is hostile towards everything around it.

Transmutation Tree:

• Hollow orange colored trunk with green leaves and dark gray flowers and fruits.
• Grows one new flower every week(10 days)
• Flowers turn into fruits every 3 weeks.
• When eaten, flowers randomly change the consumer's size once to the next size class for 10 minutes. (medium to large or medium to small).
• When eaten, fruits cause the user the effect of the Blink spell.
• When fruits are thrown, when they hit a creature, the creature must make a DC 16 Constitution save or be under the effects of the Flesh to Stone spell.

Type

Journal, Scientific

Authors

• Lisset Sunshaker