Tree of Nachash

The Tree of Nachash is the most important resource of the Ouroboros Pirates and the main source of the materials that make up their ships and weapons of war.

## ***Appearance***

The Tree of Nachash is a seemingly normal Apple Tree but due to having consumed the Hebi Hebi no Mi, Model: Hydra and being permanently in its hybrid state it has since become a towering titan of a tree whose branches end in the heads of snakes and whose leaves appear like shed scales.

## ***Properties***

The tree having consumed the Hebi Hebi no Mi, Model: Hydra and being constantly hybridized from this possesses the abilities of both a tree and the mythological hydra. As such it is able to endlessly generate its branches when they are cut off and attack people with its fangs, which it typically does to anyone who steps too close, injecting its extremely poisonous sap into them when a mere bite doesn't suffice.

However since the tree was domesticated by Pythia it became cooperative to her and allowed her to use the tree as a source of infinite lumber and poison for her plans for domination.

## ***Resources***

### ***Snake Wood***

A special wood harvested from the branches of the Tree of Nachash exclusively which has all the properties of wood and a snake's body. The bark can be removed easily and entirely as if a snake had shed it's skin while the wood itself can exhibit the properties of wood and muscle near it's outside as well as wood and bone nearer to the wood's core allowing for one to easily acquire long strips of supple and hard wood. Additionally due to the lingering properties of the Hebi Hebi no Mi, Model: Hydra the wood cannot be cut successfuly without the use of heat otherwise the wood and its constructs will simply regenerate themselves.

Snake Wood is the main wood for the fleet of ships of the Ouroboros Pirates, and due to being high quality and effectively free Pythia is able to pump out ships at a rate which is not limited by her crew's ability to acquire raw material from the market and is instead limited by the crew's ability to source it from the Tree of Nachash. Furthermore due to the regenerative properties of the wood the ships are able to weather damage beyond that of most ships allowing Pythia to save on shipwrights as well.

### ***Tree-Snake Skin***

The bark of the Tree of Nachash can be repurposed into extra tough Snake Hide and in turn into Leather which make up the sails of the various ships of the Ouroboros Pirates and is used to adorn the other parts of the ship and even used as armor if needed for the crew members to wear.

### ***Scale Leaves***

The leaves of the Tree of Nachash exhibit the properties of both leaves and scales as such they are both light, flexible, durable and more importantly impermeable which makes them useful to line the sides of the ships of the Ouroboros Pirates to prevent water from entering the ships even when spending a lot of time in the sea.

### ***Serpent Sap***

The sap of the Tree of Nachash which is extracted from the wood before it's used for building ships is a potent toxin capable of killing weaker men easily and when exposed to an open flame will turn into poisonous fumes, the residual amounts left in the wood after its preparation kill of molds and any pests which might sneak into the ships and eat supplies. At low dosages the poison causes only paralysis to a grown man and low doses are administered to all members of the Ouroboros pirates with Rum as an initiation ritual into the crew, those who die are seen as unworthy of joining either way and those that survive are welcomed into the crew.

### ***Apple of Discord***

The name for the fruit generated by the Tree of Nachash once per year, the fruit cannot be endlessly harvested unlike the rest of the tree but the fruit generated are similar to SMILE and have similar side effects. 90% of people who eat one of the apples end up simply dying from the poison of the apple, while the following 10% end up gaining the ability to partially transform into snake parts either temporarily or permanently.

## ***Trivia***

* The name of this tree is derived from the name of the Serpent in the Book of Genesis, similar to other famous trees in One Piece.