Larg Tree
The Larg Tree begins its life rooted in iron-rich soil but draws veins of metal and magnet-stone into itself over decades until its trunk and roots become magnetised and the tree slowly rises, trailing clods of earth as it lifts a Maan People Maan The most numerous people of Elshore and the baseline cultural reference of the age.'s height or more above the frozen ground. Mature groves drift above the upland ore-fields of the Bridge Mountains Place The Bridge Mountains A mountain range in the far north of Tarkdaara, one of the named western and northern sub-ranges of the Spine of the World, the continent-long range of stone and ice. and Frozen Highlands like floating islands of frost-dark bark and whispering leaves, rare and treasured as the burial places of heroes. In old Largtree groves, the accumulated magnetic fields are said to whisper and sing as they stir the dust.
Key traits
- By absorbing iron and subtle magnetic energies from deep within the land, the tree gradually becomes lighter to the earth and heavier to the sky, lifting incrementally higher each decade.
- A full-grown Larg exerts a pull on nearby iron objects, drawing fallen weapons, tools, or stones into slow orbit around it.
- Every part of the tree is technically edible, offering strange, dense nourishment shot through with metallic tang, said to fortify the blood and sharpen the senses in small doses.
- Excess consumption of Larg material causes Iron Fever, a sickness of burning veins and fevered visions wherein the sufferer feels pulled upward by unseen hands; wise folk take it only in small, reverent doses.
- The Larg is rooted first in iron-rich soils along broken mountain slopes and scattered ore-fields, wherever the land's blood runs thick with metal and memory.