World Tree

From Demiurge Games

The World Tree was a marker that CrossRealms initially sent Luke Laque to retrieve to alleviate the stress of the constant expansion and influx of new minds on the geography of the plane. Luke found himself in a hedge maze surrounding the corrupted tree, the nearly dead tree black and sickly and producing large purple glowing orbs for fruit. A mantis-like spirit had corrupted the tree, using it to drain the plane it was located on of life and creation energies for its own ends. Luke battled the spirit and won, and the the tree was torn free of its moorings in its home dimension, the tree was supplanted in CrossRealms. The tree remained corrupted and the realm was destroyed before it could be fully healed.

When the markers were reclaimed by the Explorer's Society to rebuild the realm, the World Tree's seed and the Dragon God Shrine's egg were claimed though both were neutral markers before. The shrine became the centre of the realm, and cleansed the World Tree in the process and using it as an anchor to the north. The World Tree in turn spawned the Great Forest.