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[Rookie Brownbark]

Categorisation
Tree, deciduous

Overview
This strange, tough little tree grows right at the top of mountains on rocky, soilless slopes that no other plant can survive on.  Its roots don’t burrow into soil, as there isn’t any, but instead cling directly to solid rock with hundreds of tiny suckers.  The wild variety grows only on one particular peak in the Rimmerins Range: Sorceress’s Peak, a mountain that borders the Vale of Brownies.  The domesticated trees are most common in that Vale too, although can also be found wherever a life mage is practicing their craft.  As they don’t need soil, and can be trained to grow around whatever small pebble is available, they make ideal living staffs for these particular magic users.

Description
The Oha-ooy is a delicate, pale-skinned tree which, in its wild state at least, never grows much beyond dwarven hip height.  It seems to avoid wind damage simply by providing as little resistance as possible, with widely spaced branches and tiny, petal-like leaves of a pale bright green.  Every little breeze lifts these little green jewels, making them dance and pirouette in a wave of movement.  The tree also avoids growing right on the top of the peaks where the wind and rain are strongest, and instead chooses the sheltered nooks and crannies that the rock faces offer.

The thick main roots snake around whatever rock is below it, sticking to the smooth surface below with tiny little suckers no bigger than a Brownies’ little finger.  Hundreds of much finer roots then grow upwards out of these thick ones, creating a white hair-like mesh around the base of the tree.  Brownie folklore says that the plant uses this net to capture the spirits that leave a body when it dies, ensnaring them on their search for their spirit home.  It is easy to believe that such a fine net is used to catch something unseen, as what other use could it have?

Domesticated Oha-ooy rarely meet even this moderate height.  The tree will only grow as large as its rock base allows it, so the Llaoihrr Brownies force them to grow on small pebbles, thus limiting their size to between 10 and 15 nailsbreaths.  As the wood itself is very light, this makes a very useable staff for a life mage.  These domesticated trees are generally slightly stockier with fewer, smaller leaves in comparison to their wild cousins.  After generations of enforced tininess this size seems to have been ingrained into the trees, and domesticated ones will stay at about two fores even if they are left to their own devices.

Territory
The wild Oha-ooy grows only on the topmost slopes of Sorceress’s mountain, not quite right on the windswept tops, but just below the peak itself.  Here, above the tree line, a second little forest flourishes, shorter and more open than the jungle below.  As this area is almost impossible to reach unless you can fly, the trees are largely undisturbed.  There is a Llaoihrr settlement further down the mountainside on the edge of the lower forest, who have befriended the Nysl dragons which inhabit this area.  Dragon and Brownie teams head out each summer to collect some of the wild seeds.

Most other Llaoihrr Brownies cultivate their own domesticated crops, so you can find this version of the tree all over the Vale of Brownies.  They are also becoming more common in Milkengrad as the improved contact between them and the Llaoihhr has allowed more and more Milken to become life mages too.

Usages
As mentioned before, the Oha-ooy is used by life mages as a living staff, particularly those of the Llaoihrr tribe.  The reason they choose this particular tree is simply that life magic can only be used or stored in living things, and this tree can be taken anywhere they wish.  A mage can infuse the little tree with life magic and it will store it until the mage needs it.  Normally an increase of life force would cause a plant to grow very quickly, but the Oha-ooy's growth is limited by the size of the pebble beneath it so it simply stores it.

In an effort to decrease the weight of the staff, Brownies sometimes use a piece of Mica instead of a rock.  The substance isn’t quite as hard wearing, and they must be quite careful to avoid cracking, but it is much lighter and also quite pretty.  

The seeds that mature and ripen at the height of the summer sunshine are also rich in goodness and very tasty.  Some Llaoihrr Brownies believe that eating the seeds of the Oha-ooy can be very dangerous, as they can take on the attributes of the spirits they absorb and pass them on to the person that eats them.  Unless you can be sure that the spirits weren’t evil, and you never can, anyone who eats them runs the risk of becoming tainted and evil themselves.

Reproduction
As its mountain home is rarely warm enough for insects to pollinate the Oha-ooy, it’s flowers seem to be designed to attract some of the many small birds that inhabit the Vale.  In late spring they produce lots of large red trumpet-shaped flowers of just the right shape for a small bird like an Aelirel or Coa Coa to poke its head into and get a dose of sticky pollen on its neck and throat.  It then goes to another flower on another plant, and deposits the pollen there, just like an insect would.

Unlike other flowers, the petals do not fall from the flower as the seed matures.  Instead, they remain fixed on the tree until the seeds are mature, which doesn’t happen until the summer sun is at its hottest.  Then, almost simultaneously, the seed pods at the bottom of the flowers begin to smoke and then, suddenly, shoot the whole flower head away from the tree up to a range of a couple of peds.  The flower lands and rolls to a stop.  Now, in the strong summer sun the petals quickly begin to decay, providing an excellent start for the sprouting shoot until it can produce the mesh of thin roots it seems to need to survive.

Myth/Lore/Origins

No one really knows why the Oha-ooy has no need for soil, whilst every other plant does.  As may have already been mentioned, there are many Brownie stories that tell of spirits being caught and consumed by the fine roots, often causing the plant to take on parts of their personality.  One of the more popular tales tells of a life mage's staff which grew so powerful through repeated use that it developed a monstorous personality of its own, along with a nasty habit of consuming the spirits of anything that touched it.  In the end the huge, rampaging staff was only stopped by a clever little Yellowbark Brownie who managed to lure it into a trap and burn it, destroying the staff and releasing the spirits to seek their places in the afterlife.  Of course there is no proof whatsoever to these fanciful tales, but they are very useful for preventing the michevious youngsters from going near the mage's precious staffs!

[Ta`lia of the Seven Jewels]

Hey Rookie, that is cool! I wanted to go to bed and had just a short glimpse because of this impossible name!

And then I was not tired anymore for a short time.

I liked especially those descriptions:
 
- never grows much beyond dwarven hip height

- which doesn’t happen until the summer sun is at its hottest

- and that little brownie finger somewhere.

You have spread a bit of lore inbetween, which I find nice, it makes the reading even more pleasant as it already is.

The only thing which irritated me before I came to the usage section: I could not believe, that the tree is always on that pebble. I know now, it has to be, but isn't it a bit too heavy, even 15 nailsbreth is quite a bit of stone for a Brownie.

I pondered, would such a tree flourish on a Burning Stone also?  They are very lightweight, but you should never put it hard on the ground!

[Rookie Brownbark]

Oooh, that was just the sort of thing I was looking for Talia.  I'd pondered using Mica as that's quite light I think, and I've put it in there, but that's not really hard wearing enough.

Maybe I'll make them slightly smaller too.  I've already attempted to lighten them by giving the tree quite lightweight wood.  I also think the roots would be forced to be very small, so they wouldn't weigh much, and the Brownie could prune the branches to keep them down too.  Perhaps I should add in something called "Mage's Arm" - where the staff arm is far more muscular than the other due to having to carry the thing around!

[Irid alMenie]

Very nice! I found one little mistake: It is easy to believe that such a fine net is used to catch something unseen, as what other use good it have? > could it have

[Rookie Brownbark]

Finally completed

[Athviaro Shyu-eck-Silfayr]

Categorisation
Tree, deciduous

Overview
This strange, tough little tree grows right at the top of mountains on rocky, soilless slopes that no other plant can survive on.  Its roots don’t burrow into soil, as there isn’t any, but instead cling directly to solid rock with hundreds of tiny suckers.  The wild variety grows only on one particular peak in the Rimmerins Range: Sorceress’s Peak, a mountain that borders the Vale of Brownies.  The domesticated trees are most common in that Vale too, although can also be found wherever a life mage is practicing their craft.  As they don’t need soil, and can be trained to grow around whatever small pebble is available, they make ideal living staffs for these particular magic users.

Description
The Oha-ooy is a delicate, pale-skinned tree which, in its wild state at least, never grows much beyond dwarven hip height.  It seems to avoid wind damage simply by providing as little resistance as possible, with widely spaced branches and tiny, petal-like leaves of a pale bright green.  Every little breeze lifts these little green jewels, making them dance and pirouette in a wave of movement.  The tree also avoids growing right on the top of the peaks where the wind and rain are strongest, and instead chooses the sheltered nooks and crannies that the rock faces offer.

The thick main roots snake around whatever rock is below it, sticking to the smooth surface below with tiny little suckers no bigger than a Brownies’ little finger.  Hundreds of much finer roots then grow upwards out of these thick ones, creating a white hair-like mesh around the base of the tree.  Brownie folklore says that the plant uses this net to capture the spirits that leave a body when it dies, ensnaring them on their search for their spirit home.  It is easy to believe that such a fine net is used to catch something unseen, as what other use could it have?

Domesticated Oha-ooy rarely meet even this moderate height.  The tree will only grow as large as its rock base allows it, so the Llaoihrr Brownies force them to grow on small pebbles, thus limiting their size to between 10 and 15 nailsbreaths.  As the wood itself is very light, this makes a very useable staff for a life mage.  These domesticated trees are generally slightly stockier with fewer, smaller leaves in comparison to their wild cousins.  After generations of enforced tininess this size seems to have been ingrained into the trees, and domesticated ones will stay at about two fores even if they are left to their own devices.

Territory
The wild Oha-ooy grows only on the topmost slopes of Sorceress’s mountain, not quite right I think this is a little tautologous, "quite right", and the sentence may read better with just one. *shrugs* Up to you, just a thought. Grammatically, it's fine, but the flow...I don't know. Maybe it's just me on the windswept tops, but just below the peak itself.  Here, above the tree line, a second little forest flourishes, shorter and more open than the jungle below.  As this area is almost impossible to reach unless you can fly, the trees are largely undisturbed.  There is a Llaoihrr settlement further down the mountainside on the edge of the lower forest, who have befriended the Nysl dragons which inhabit this area.  Dragon and Brownie teams head out each summer to collect some of the wild seeds.

Most other Llaoihrr Brownies cultivate their own domesticated crops, so you can find this version of the tree all over the Vale of Brownies.  They are also becoming more common in Milkengrad as the improved contact between them and the Llaoihhr has allowed more and more Milken to become life mages too.

Usages
As mentioned before, the Oha-ooy is used by life mages as a living staff, particularly those of the Llaoihrr tribe.  The reason they choose this particular tree is simply that life magic can only be used or stored in living things, and this tree can be taken anywhere they wish.  A mage can infuse the little tree with life magic and it will store it until the mage needs it.  Normally an increase of life force would cause a plant to grow very quickly, but the Oha-ooy's growth is limited by the size of the pebble beneath it so it simply stores it.

In an effort to decrease the weight of the staff, Brownies sometimes use a piece of Mica instead of a rock.  The substance isn’t quite as hard wearing, and they must be quite careful to avoid cracking, but it is much lighter and also quite pretty. 

The seeds that mature and ripen at the height of the summer sunshine are also rich in goodness and very tasty.  Some Llaoihrr Brownies believe that eating the seeds of the Oha-ooy can be very dangerous, as they can take on the attributes of the spirits they absorb and pass them on to the person that eats them.  Unless you can be sure that the spirits weren’t evil, and you never can, anyone who eats them runs the risk of becoming tainted and evil themselves.

Reproduction
As its mountain home is rarely warm enough for insects to pollinate the Oha-ooy, it’s flowers seem to be designed to attract some of the many small birds that inhabit the Vale.  In late spring they produce lots of large red trumpet-shaped flowers of just the right shape for a small bird like an Aelirel or Coa Coa to poke its head into and get a dose of sticky pollen on its neck and throat.  It then goes to another flower on another plant, and deposits the pollen there, just like an insect would.

Unlike other flowers, the petals do not fall from the flower as the seed matures.  Instead, they remain fixed on the tree until the seeds are mature, which doesn’t happen until the summer sun is at its hottest.  Then, almost simultaneously, the seed pods at the bottom of the flowers begin to smoke and then, suddenly, shoot the whole flower head away from the tree up to a range of a couple of peds.  The flower lands and rolls to a stop.  Now, in therepeated this - "summer heat", perhaps? strong summer sun the petals quickly begin to decay, providing an excellent start for the sprouting shoot until it can produce the mesh of thin roots it seems to need to survive.

Myth/Lore/Origins

No one really knows why the Oha-ooy has no need for soil, whilst every other plant does.  As may have already been mentioned, there are many Brownie stories that tell of spirits being caught and consumed by the fine roots, often causing the plant to take on parts of their personality.  One of the more popular tales tells of a life mage's staff which grew so powerful through repeated use that it developed a monstorous personality of its own, along with a nasty habit of consuming the spirits of anything that touched it.  In the end the huge, rampaging staff was only stopped by a clever little Yellowbark Brownie who managed to lure it into a trap and burn it, destroying the staff and releasing the spirits to seek their places in the afterlife.  Of course there is no proof whatsoever to these fanciful tales, but they are very useful for preventing the mischievous youngsters from going near the mage's precious staffs!


Not much to say. Really a very nice entry.

Ath

[Artimidor Federkiel]

So... How about this one? Final changes made, Rookie? Ready for integration?

BTW: Any suggestion for a Tharian name? Maybe Oha-ooy as a name the Tharians would primarily use? At least it's short and sweet.

[Bard Judith]

In Tharian it would naturally and comfortably elide into 'Ahoy''.....   Thus, 'the Ahoy Air Tree'  would be a workable Tharian name, no?

[Artimidor Federkiel]

I'll see to prepare this one as it's pretty much all fine and we don't hear much from Rookie lately. Will see to slightly adjust it, though, to get Ath's comments in and will go for Judy's Tharian suggestion of "Ahoy Air Tree".

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