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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kaodi" data-source="post: 2417022" data-attributes="member: 1231">Hmmm...Six thousand years ago, in one of the great forests of Spira, a planar rift opened that connected that world with a dark and sinister deadwood of the Abyss. Many fell demons stumbled across this portal and ventured through, and a war that lasted over ten years began between the demons and the protectors of the forest, the druids, their ranger companions and many of the forests denizens. In time, the natives of Spira were able to drive back and slay the demons, though many of their number were slain. A young elven druidess who had taken the reins of leadership from the previous elder druid, slain in a climactic battle with a balor, managed to close the rift, but while her defenses were down, the last of the demons, a deadly, poisonous fiendish spider, injected its lethal venom into her system. The closing ritual complete, the druidess slew the spider demon, but in order to save herself she had to the last of her spells to transform herself into a huge tree. For many years in this form, she remained sickly, but with the tender care of her comrades she eventually became well again.Centuries past, and the elf tree grew and grew, surpassing all of the other trees in the forest in size and beauty, and though she could no longer move her limbs as she once did, the druidess' understanding of nature grew immensely as well. As her giant roots burrowed deep into the earth, she gained an awesome awareness of all that happened on and under the ground.Fifteen hundred years ago, the elf tree wearied of the constant flow of knowledge from Spira, and her consciousness entered a deep slumber, so she no longer communicated telepathically with the creatures of the wood. However, it had been discovered many years ago that the fruit bourne by the elf tree granted a small and brief glimpse of the awareness the druidess knew, but to eat one the fruit could mean death for the foolish, as the venom of the demon spider lives on in the juices.</blockquote>

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