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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EarthSeraphEdna" data-source="post: 3891115" data-attributes="member: 49309">I just read up on an interesting creature from the TYPE-MOON universe (same 'verse that O.R.T. comes from) named the "Forest of Einnashe", aka the "Disembowelling Sea of Trees".It's a mobile, sentient forest approximately 50 kilometers (31 miles) in diameter. It normally appears as a mundane forest located anywhere in the world, with nothing to identify it as unique due to its powerful illusion magic. Every 50 years, however, it activates itself and rips itself from the ground in search of blood.It engulfs everything in its path, and any poor creature in its reach is swarmed and sucked dry by thousands of vampiric trees and plants. This vegetation in turn flows blood through the ground of the forest, giving all the plants a blood-red color. The forest can engulf just about anything that fits in it, and even a 660-foot-long and 250-foot-tall divine beast was able to be swarmed and nearly felled. Additionally, it drains the air all around it of magical and psionic energy, thus making it impossible to cast spells or manifests powers while inside or near it.The forest originated from a vampire sorcerer named Einnashe (I'd peg him at around lesser/intermediate deity-level). He specialized in enchantment magic, specifically, hypnosis and memory modification. He wasn't capable of deleting memories, but he could alter them substantially, and thus could hide his existence from anyone who encountered him. However, another sorcerer who specialized in memory modification was able to bring back the memories of Einnashe in a powerful vampire named Arcueid Brunestud (I'd put her at about greater deity-level), and the two were able to track down Einnashe and put an end to him. The sorcerer's corpse was left by a great tree, whose roots sucked his supernatural blood as the years passed by. The tree inherited his vampiric and magical power, and it spread to the nearby vegetation, thus swelling into the 50-kilometer monstrosity that is the Disembowelling Sea of Trees. The tree that Einnashe's corpse originally laid by bears fruits that supposedly grant the bearer Transmortality.So the Forest of Einnashe would be a Mega-Fine Plant creature since it is 31 miles in diameter, and spherical creatures have their dimensions in Table 1-3: Expanded Size of the Epic Bestiary cut in half, so a spherical Mega-Fine creature would have dimensions of roughly 24-48 miles. It would have Vampiric [Effect], a constant Antimagic Field and Null Psionics Field, the ability to summon vampiric shamblers and treants, and of course an engulf attack. I have no idea how you'd set its HD at a feasible number though, since Mega-Fine creatures have a minimum of 131,072 HD and a maximum of 262,143 HD. It was eventually defeated by a pair of greater deity-level combatants, so it can't be THAT powerful.The whole thing kind of reminds me of a super-Genius Loci, now that I think about it. Only without the enslaving and with vampiric powers instead.</blockquote>

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