Environment

Special abilities

Normal sight 0 | Protection from spirits 5 | Legs 0 | No back 2 | No body parts 2

Most trees spend their whole life peacefully standing and growing; at most they drop a branch or trip an intruder with a root. Not so the evil tree, which has been awakened by forest magic, a particularly wicked deed or a curse. Such a tree pulls up its roots, opens its maw and sets off on a march, destroying everything hostile and alien along the way.

It is active mainly at night; in an enchanted forest or thanks to spells it can also act by day, but then it is slower. It either obeys its master (the one who awakened it), or follows the will of the forest and attacks or drives off intruders.

Combat

The evil tree is a tough opponent, almost invulnerable to weapons. It attacks with flexible, springy branches with which it pounds or grabs and strangles. It fears only fire, but in extreme cases fire can drive it into a frenzy, so that it becomes a berserker.