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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy E Grenemyer" data-source="post: 6864495" data-attributes="member: 12388">Having thought some more about your statement, I think it will be best to treat the soul of a being captured by the Tree as something that can be broken up. The number of times this can be done will be based on the hit dice of the captured being. A Priest (as found in the SRD) with 5 hit dice, for example, could be turned into five clones at most, each with a "soul shard" that gives the clone life (and access to divine magic), which the Tree recoups if the clone dies. It a clone advances in hit dice, then the Tree would recoup this extra soul energy along with all of the clone's memories and experiences and store it in the original captured being when that clone dies, and so would be able to create that many more clones of the original. This would sort of force the tree to send out clones, so it can gain soul energy in order to build a bigger clone army. This might be a backdoor way for PCs and NPCs captured by the tree to advance in level, too, provided some of the clones of a captured being advanced in level before being found and destroyed, and provided the captives are then freed from the tree before it can withdraw soul energy to produce more clones. Hrm...maybe this is how the idea for the tree came about: a long time ago an elf mage or cleric figured out how to make a tree that could grow clones of the elf, then the elf sent her clones into the world to gain knowledge and experience while she slept safely in the tree, and she took that power into herself each time a clone died. Maybe the experience of hosting memories from different lives lived proved to much, and the elf either went mad or was turned into the sort of tyrannical elf driven to perfect the process and use it create sentient trees that could grow secretly in the forests of lesser elves and slowly work to destroy their lands from within. Thank you Goober for helping me to reverse my thinking on the idea of the clones having souls!</blockquote>

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