Tree of Death

The Tree of Death (Øngbræns: Dødensstræ, Rakki: Dyððrasil, Yupiisut: Tatarasi) was a huge otherworldly entity, quite potentially from everyone's favourite extraplanar hellscape, Devastate.
== The Old One of Memory ==
As an Old One, the Tree of Death held control over memory, and had the power to make people forget, submit, and more. Its mark often formed eyes, tentacles, teeth or other horrific-looking shapes.
== Appearance ==
It looked like a huge tree, perhaps a hundred feet tall and incredibly thick. However, its bark was red, smooth, wet and firm, like undercooked squid. Its branches were instead a seething mass of red tentacles, each ending in a splayed, four-mandibled mouth, like a slavering toothed flower. A single one of these branches was the Fallen Branch. 
To be exact, it had eight heads large enough to eat someone whole, each with a longer reach, and then perhaps forty small, thin tentacles with only a single row of teeth. It could take extra reactions from its eight heads, and was thus resistant to visual and other cranial effects. 
== Activity in 1521 ==
In the ice marshes near Vörgåsen, it was found, excavated, defrosted and worshipped by The Song, but it was not awake yet. It needed blood - and when Forte killed Maud Jansen on its trunk in 1521, her blood awoke it.
It decimated the West Marchers, Clan MacDeídhre's guardia and the Værdnr of the wastes, but was finally killed by Forte and Arnaud with bolts and a cloud of poison. It called thrice before it died - to what, who knows.
Category:Beings
Category:The Old Ones