Great Tree

Great Trees is a race of sentient plants from an unnamed planet far across the reaches of space and time. They are huge trees over a mile high with moving branches and tendrils. Only three members of the species were able to survive by having their life-leaves borne away from their dying world by a traveling sorcerer Ardatha Ell. One of the three was planted in Earth's Dreamlands. It currently is rooted near the city of Thalarion. The other was planted in the mountain-girt gardens of Nymarrah on Elysia.
Such large trees quickly drain the soil around them of the nourishment they require to survive. So they creep along throughout their lives, moving less than one inch per day, sending their vast networks of roots deep underground to seek out the minerals needed to sustain them. The trees also have a series of tendrils which they send out over the surface of the ground to scout out the way ahead through hills, and across rivers if need be. These tendrils, which hang down from the tree's branches, can lift a man off the ground.
When it is ready to reproduce, a tree will let its life-leaf loose to fly on the winds. It will travel for hundreds of miles until it finds suitable soil to plant itself in. The life-leaf of a great tree is quite large and capable of carrying several humans with it on its journey through the sky. The life cycle of the Trees is many thousand years. Each Great Tree carries with it all the memories of all of its ancestors. They have a great deal of knowledge stored within them.
Great Trees can communicate with other creatures telepathically if they are in physical contact with them. The race is not aggressive, and will avoid violence at all costs.
== The Dust of Dreams ==
The leaves of Great Trees give off a pollen-like substance which is known as the Dust of Dreams. Inhaling this substance puts people into a deep sleep.
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