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Numeneric Thoughts: More Trees

A few more thoughts related to trees in the Ninth World:


  • There is a remote village, south of the Cloudcrystal Sky Fields, where the trees seems to change color randomly. When the trees turn red, the residents close up their houses and refuse to go outside.
  • Just outside of Hamuth, there is an strange old man who grows a garden of trees. If you go near the trees at night, the trees will glow and chitter, and the old man comes out and chases you off with a numenera that gives off a blinding bright light.
  • A guide in Bodrov warned me just the other day that if I get lost in the Westwood to seek out trees with triangle leaves. He says if you tap them, they produce clear water suitable to drink with an odd smells that keeps danger away,
  • In Charmonde, wealthier citizens started planting a new fractal-leaved tree that were all the rage. There is a uproar at the moment: the trees are slowly moving a few inches each night and seem to all be leaving the city.
  • Numenera hunters in the Ba-Adenu Forest are looking for a quivering orange tree worth its weight in gold. If planted as a seedling on a grave, it will grow faces of the dead in the bark and they talk, seeming knowing things that only the dead below should know.
  • In the barren lands around Hidden Naresh, a rare tree of stone grows. When it flowers and fruits, the resulting stone apples seem to stay toasty and warm forever. Just don't drop them -- if they crack open anyone nearby is turned to stone. Maybe they even start to grow into a new tree.
  • There is a legend of peoples that wander in the plains of a man who collects the dead. He drives a wagon made of living flesh pulled by 8 stout walking trees.

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