Chromarind Heart Tree

Chromarind Heart Trees are a type of magic-infused tree native to the Feywild.

## Description

Supposedly, every eladrin city in the Feywild has a Chromarind Heart Tree at its core, acting to bring vibrancy, stability and the continued wonderment of the Feywild to the city. It is therefore assumed that such trees were central to the act of creation by which Srar, the Deity of Change was said to have created the Feywild, and they have served as the cores of the three great Eladrin cities - Cal Osier, Cal Dorthorne and Cal Quercus - ever since.

The city of Cal Araenora likewise has a Chromarind Heart Tree, and it is widely repeated by residents that it is the Heart Tree that calls the city home to the Feywild as part of the Hurtle, although stands in active defiance of its ability to travel to the Material Plane, and thus may not be related in the slightest. Likewise, the city of Vibur Nhum, formally known as Cal Belanor, lost its Heart Tree an age ago, resulting in the city's degradation into its current state.

Chromarind Heart Trees are distinguished in threefold manner. Firstly, its branches display all of the effects of the seasons simultaneously, some with blossoms in full flourish, others with leaves either full and green, or dry shades of red and orange, whereas other branches are devoid of feature entirely. This range of colouration seems to spread beyond the reach of the tree's branches, and while not promoting of plant growth directly, seems to bring out brightness and vibrancy of anything in its vicinity. Secondly, octagonal glyphs shift and turn over the bark of the trunk, like leaves upon a river's surface, giving off a faint radiance. Finally, and most curiously, is the nature of their replication, or lack thereof. Each Chromarind Heart Tree grows a single seed, referred to as the Heartgerm. While the Heartgerm can be detached without damaging the tree, the moment it is planted and takes root - something that only occurs under specific circumstances, it is said, then the original Chromarind Heart Tree from which it was taken immediately withers and dies. It is uncertain whether this property still remains if the Heartgerm is planted on a different Plane of Existence.

## History

In 134WD, Halla-Highreign an adventuring party would be involved in a plot to steal the Heartgerm of the Chromarind Heart Tree of Vibur Nhum from the Hall of the Virtuous, a plot planned by Vankeshtad at the behest of agents of the Archfey Ilena. According to Vankeshtad, Ilena had travelled to Vibur Nhum on her journeys through the Feywild, and grown to despair for what the city had become, and sought to try and restore it by returning its Heart Tree and so had petitioned its delivery to the Court of the Alderqueen to then be taken to the shadowed city for use in a ritual to regrow life and vibrancy anew. Accessing the storage tunnels by means of the natural tunnels, as scouted out by a number of *Awakened* pets, the party managed to obtain the Heartgerm, but their ingress was noted by the duergar guards of the lower levels, which, after also garnering the attention of another entity, resulted in the sudden death of Vankeshtad himself.