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The Ashwood Tree

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Disclaimer: Ashwood Crafting is currently on hold in its entirety, until the new crafting lore piece is posted for Ashwood you CANNOT craft with this material. Further, all previous knowledge of how to work with the wood no longer applies as the tree’s properties have changed. After the new lore piece is released, three people will be granted Ashwood crafting, and the rest will need to learn fully in roleplay.

 

A distant relative to the Elderwood tree, the Ashwood Tree has adapted itself to survive in areas that have become overcrowded with flora. The Ashwood Tree is native to the small continent of Vailor, although not exclusively so, they are rarer in other locations. The Ashwood Tree is considered a symbol of the Norlandic people, and as such they have seen fit to bring the original Ashwood tree from Seahelm and its descendant seeds and saplings with them whenever the descendants are forced to migrate to new lands, planting it in the middle of their settlements. The Ashwood tree is also typically depicted with empty nooses or bodies hanging from its large barren branches, as the Ashwood Tree is used quite frequently to hang criminals as its strong branches will not break under the weight of most descendant creatures. Gaining most of its nutrients for the year through its root system, the Ashwood Tree needs to maintain a nutrient strong soil. Ashwood trees usually grow near bodies of water, where tides can bring in silty soil to the tree, alternatively the tree can grow in forests, where when it ignites, it would start a forest fire causing the soil to become “supercharged” with nutrients. The Ashwood Tree sprouts leaves in spring, soaking up much needed sunlight to create its sap during the summer. The sap coats the tree during the fall, and when the winter comes it burns off its sap that covers all of the exposed parts of the bark and remaining leaves for the year.
 


Appearance:

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Location:

Ashwood trees prefer to live in cold arid climates, currently most of the Ashwood trees that exist are in Norlandic hands, thanks to so few being saved from their home continent of Vailor.

 

Description:

 

Ashwood Swell

The Ashwood swell, sometimes referred to as the Ashwood seed, is a dark bulbous seed that would be large and hard enough to survive an impact -the swell falling from the branches. The impact of the seed falling from the tree would compromise part of its shell weakening it, this would render the seed weak to all further physical attacks.  The swell will remain fertile for up to a year (One OOC Week) as it has a fair bit of nutrients inside the swell itself to kickstart the tree’s growth. 

 

In its homeland of Vailor the swell would often be pushed around by larger animals as its exterior has a sweet nutty flavor prized by many animals, though as the tree has been taken from its original ecosystem, it requires support from descendants to spread its swells to create new Ashwood trees. As such Norlanders took on the mantle of supporting and caring for the tree, by helping move the swell wherever they think it would have a good chance for survival. 

 

The swell’s has an awkward width of two feet, length of two feet, height of three feet and its weight is typically 50 pounds, though never more than 80 lbs, this makes the swell quite awkward to carry for one person, as such two people will be needed to carry the swell. In their adolescence (0-9 years old) Ashwood trees will not produce a swell, and as such are not likely to shed their branches as they are trying to grow.   

 

 

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Ashwood Swell Redlines:

  • Due to the size of the swell, to transport it one would need a cart.

  • An Ashwood Swell can be gathered once a OOC month, the player must be overseen by an ST and a sign must be placed on the tree indicating when the swell can next be gathered.

  • The swell after its fallen from the tree will take three emotes to break (if the intent is to kill the seed), first of the emotes will be for swinging to further break the exterior, the next will be to pry the exterior off of the swell, and the next being the final blow to kill the seed that was previously inside the swell.

  • The swell only has a sweet nutty flavor to animals and animal-like races (Ex. Kharajyr, Wonks, etc).

 

 

Wood, Bark, and Branches

 

The Ashwood tree while young has easily bruise-able bark that can hinder the tree's growth, that must be hardened via Ashwood firing every year (1 OOC week). As the tree ages its bark will get progressively harder until it's adulthood (10 OOC weeks), at this point the tree will be decently resistant to most mundane attacks, though strong blunt damage - such as hitting it with a large warhammer -to the tree can break off a little bark. Further, if extreme damage is dealt -such as hitting it with a cannon shot directly-, the tree can become bruised and even break off the weaker upper branches of the tree when impacted. Ashwood bark has a chestnut color with a very coarse and abrasive texture. When a branch or some bark fall off the tree and over time dry, it becomes brittle, losing most of its hardness and strength. 

 

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Ashwood Wood, Bark and Branches Redlines:

  • Ashwood bark, wood, or branches if from an adolescent tree (0-9 years old) will not carry its strength or hardness properties, instead it will adopt the strength and hardness of a normal wood like oak, spare its resistance to mundane fire, even if the bark is treated with the proper method.

  • Ashwood products made from the wood, bark or branches of the tree will be on hold until a proper post regarding the method of treating Ashwood and shaping Ashwood is made.

  • All items created with the wood, bark or the branches of the Ashwood tree must be ST signed.

  • Armor cannot be crafted out of Ashwood.

  • Ashwood branches when exposed to extreme temperatures (1600°+ C) will degrade and weaken, till slowly turning itself to ash.

  • Ashwood is a fairly dense material, as such, it dissipates heat slowly, though Ashwood doesn’t act as an insulator. Ashwood can still very capably burn someone after being exposed to heat for a long period of time.

 

Harvesting:

Ashwood Swell

The Ashwood Tree drops a single swell every year in the spring, the tree grows a black swell in its branches during the summer, then over the course of year it will swell bigger and bigger until it drops from the branches in the next spring when it’s too heavy to continue to be supported by the tree. An Ashwood tree can also prematurely release a swell if convinced by a Druid on occasions where its life is threatened, or is ill. Spare that occasion, any premature removals of swells via mundane means from the Ashwood tree will kill the swell.

 

Ashwood

The tree is decently sturdy and is resistant to most mundane attacks, spare excessive blunt attacks. The primary means of getting Ashwood is through its discarded branches, throughout the year the tree will shed its less productive branches leaving the healthy productive ones in the canopy. 

 

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General Ashwood Tree Redlines 

  • When an Ashwood tree is planted from its seed form a sign must be placed to indicate when it will become a mature tree.

  • Ashwood Trees cannot be used as a Soul Tree

  • Ashwood Trees cannot be used as slumbering trees for any type of treant

  • Epiphytes cannot bond to Ashwood Trees.

  • When an Ashwood tree is bruised in adolescence it will add an additional week to the time needed for the tree to reach maturity, a sign must be placed on or at the foot of the tree indicating bruises, in an rp fashion, if any are present until the tree reaches maturity.

  • You cannot plant the tree underground as it requires sunlight to live.

  • While it's easier to damage things like the upper smaller branches on the tree with voidal or dragon flame it becomes increasingly difficult to damage as you move towards the trunk of the tree. A Tier 4 Fire Evocationist being able to warp, or scar the tree. A Tier 5 Evocationist, being able to inflict moderate to severe damage to it with harsh, and continued, exposure to Voidal Fire. (Three Tier 5 casts to damage a 2x2 block (MCly) area of the tree.)

  • Adolescent Ashwood trees can be 10 blocks tall at max in their trunks, and can only have a width of 1-2 blocks. After the tree is planted for 10 OOC weeks the tree will inherit the height and width limits of Mature Ashwood Trees.

  • Mature Ashwood trees can grow to a height of 35 blocks, and 10 blocks wide in their trunk, though their canopy can extend past this height and width limit.

  • Ashwood as a material may be flame retardant, but it holds heat well, meaning Ashwood products have the chance to burn you if exposed to hot temperatures.

  • The seed is awkward to hold, as such it will require two players to move the seed after it falls from the branches. 

  • Due to the tree being large (Up to a height and width of 35 and 10 blocks respectively), you cannot do anything that’s hidden or clear of sight. Any interactions with the tree must be done in #RP as a minimum unless a Mod or ST rules otherwise for that moment of interaction -- Furthermore, any interactions that include harvesting of a material, in regards to the Ashwood Tree must be done with the supervision of an ST.

  • The sap holds a flame well, it can only be extinguished by completely suffocating the flame in a non-flammable material (Ex. pouring sand over it, gravel, etc.)

  • Until a lore post is made regarding Ashwood sap it cannot be used in any alchemical ways or weaponized directly (Ex. Throwing the sap at a person and igniting it). 

  • Ashwood trees must be burned annually to shed its sap and strengthen its bark. If the tree does not burn, it will grow sickly and will die with continued neglect. If for some reason the Ashwood tree does not light itself, it can be lit manually through means of any mundane fire applied to the volatile sap. The first year a tree goes without burning, it will produce a noticeably thinner canopy the following spring. After the second year without burning, the tree will fail to produce viscous enough sap for the next winter and will die within the following year. (What this means, is you MUST have your tree lit in-game, and not just sitting unlit. You will not be forced to extinguish and relight an Ashwood Tree every two real days.) 

 

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Changelog
11/17/2020

Added a proper weight to Ashwood Swells
Fixed the size of the tree to be more reasonable

Removed stubbornness
Fixed the seed size
Clarified damage dealt from voidal/dragon flame
Removed mentions of bark re-hardening, crafting will not be possible until a lore piece for Ashwood crafting is out.


 

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This Lore has been accepted. Moved to Implemented Lore, it will be sorted to it's appropriate category soon. Please note that if this is playable lore, such as a magic or CA, you will need to write a guide for this piece. You will be contacted regarding the guide (or implementation if it isn’t needed) shortly.

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Lore has been shelved and moved to the appropriate subforum. If you have questions about why this specific lore has been shelved, please contact an ST Manager or the ST Administrator.

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