Marionette Tree

Forest

Grasping Vines

Rock

An adventurer, tired from a long day of travelling and fighting, might sit down under a lush tree to finally find some rest, only to never wake again. Marionette trees are malicous plants that prey on live creatures to use as fertiliser. The origin of marionette trees are unknown, but theories range from the idea that they are the creation of a naive druid looking to make trees more self-sustainable, to the suggestion that the trees are corrupted when in the proximity of excessive death, such as when planted in graveyards or used to hang criminals.

 Marionette trees lure their victims in by using their branches to puppeteer the corpses of their previous victims, sometimes leaving them scattered around its roots to invite closer investigation, or miming some semblance of life. Once it has hold of a creature, the tree will try to slowly suffocate it to death, whereupon the creature's remains are left to either decompose and nourish the tree, or become yet another puppet.

Marionette Tree

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