![]() In the Year of the Rune Lords Triumphant, 1487 DR, Myth Drannor was confronted with the arrival of the flying City of Shade, Thultanthar. īut this new elven city faced destruction barely more than a century later. After three years, it had grown to nearly 20 feet (6.1 meters) tall and provided an anchor for the new mythal fashioned by Araevin Teshurr. ![]() ![]() The tree was finally planted in the Starsoul Shrine, called Seldarrshen Nieryll, within a circular colonnade in the center of Myth Drannor, where all the people could see and enjoy it. įinally, at the ascension of Ilsevele Miritar as the seventh Coronal of the recently reclaimed city of Myth Drannor in the Year of the Haunting, 1377 DR, Queen Amlaruil gifted the actual Tree of Souls to the new elven realm. It was set in the earth at the center of their camp in the Vale of Lost Voices to guard against demonic assault, and it was closely guarded and watched. He would carry it into battle in the Cormanthor War to guard against the fiends and placed it in the immediate care of the priestess Thilesin. In the Year of Lightning Storms, 1374 DR, Queen Amlaruil brought a sapling of the Tree of Souls back to the mainland and presented it to Lord Seiveril Miritar to aid his effort to reclaim the city of Myth Drannor for the elves. The gods granted this to the elf high mage Starleaf and entrusted the elves of Evermeet with its protection in a secret place on the newly formed island. The seed swiftly sprouted, becoming a miniature tree. It held the souls of those High Magi who'd given their lives in the effort. The deities Angharradh and Corellon Larethian created the seed of the Tree of Souls following the completion of the high magic that created Evermeet in the First Sundering circa −17,600 DR. Hence, it was kept safe for their return, even if it would take millennia or more. Certainly, because it could never be uprooted and relocated once planted, the elves were unwilling to simply plant it on Evermeet and waste its power and Corellon himself cautioned it should not be planted on Evermeet, nor planted careless. Īccording to prophecy, the Tree of Souls would only be properly planted on the mainland after the elves ended their exile on Evermeet and returned in numbers to Faerûn. The very existence of the Tree of Souls was a closely guarded secret, even to the leaders of the elves on Evermeet. It needed to be placed in earth for this to be effective, however. Even a sapling had the power to repel fiends over a range of hundreds of yards, preventing them from teleporting into the area, though they still might enter physically. However, it could never be relocated from that spot. Moreover, it would also enable elven high magic to be cast freely and without impediments anywhere within 100 miles (160 kilometers), increasing by 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) every year thereafter. Once it was planted, the Tree of Souls would form a gate permanently linking Evermeet and the place where the tree stood. The Tree of Souls was in essence a living mythal. Several more saplings, known as "slips", were produced in the late 1400s DR. Only two such saplings were known to exist, the one granted to Lamruil and one granted to Seirveril. Nevertheless, on rare occasion, it produced buds that would grow into saplings. While not yet planted, the tree existed in magical stasis, never growing and never dying. They enhanced the tree's power ever further over the millennia. Powers Īs the name suggested, the Tree of Souls absorbed the souls of those ancient elves who elected not to go to Arvandor but rather to linger on Toril, so that their very souls might aid in the reconstruction of the elven realm. Touching it bestowed an incredible sense of love and recognition from those elven souls within. It stood in a shallow bowl that appeared to be carved out of a single blue-green gem. ![]() ![]() However, while held in stasis, it was a miniature albeit still mature oak of the same appearance. Once it was actually planted, the tree would grow in an instant, becoming a massive tree akin to an oak, standing 500 feet (150 meters) tall and bearing silvery white bark and shining green and gold leaves. ![]()
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