Online:Strange Sapling

Strange Sapling
Species	Strange Sapling
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Strange Sapling

The dead sapling

The Strange Sapling is a talking tree found northeast of Hoarfrost Downs, outside the Cave of Sorrows. It contains the spirit of Merethrin, a mage who sought to extend his life using the elements of nature. His spell didn't work out as planned, and his spirit was instead transported into a nearby tree, causing him to suffer memory loss and the existing Tree Spirit's lifeforce to be expelled from the sapling. After the spell is reversed, the tree will be renamed to "Dead Sapling".

Related Quests

• The Price of Longevity: Solve the mystery of the strange sapling.

Quest-Related Events

"The wind whispers to me tales of distant places, of verdant glades dappled with sunlight. Where is this beauty, this wonder? Why can't I go there?
What is this strange being standing before me?"

Are you talking to me?

"The creature speaks! My loneliness falls away like the autumn leaf. The wintry shiver of apprehension sets in: do I dare ask the many questions I have? Do I dare hear the answers?
How? When? Why? Why am I cursed with the burden of thought?"

Who are you?

"I'm a tree. But I think. I feel. How? Other trees have no such faculties, do they?
I even have memories. Movement. Walking. A cave … but then nothing. There's something about the cave. It's near. Will you search inside for the answers I have lost?"

Yes. I'll investigate the cave.

Once you have spoken with the Tree Spirit inside the cave. He will have already forgotten about you:

"My roots burrow hungrily into the earth, as if the loamy soil were my only need.
But I feel a hollowness that I cannot abide. I see a being here I want to remember, but when I try to think, there is nothing."

Before you speak to the Tree Spirit regarding with the notes, he will say:

"Footfalls shift the earth, sending shivering tremors through my roots. You have returned to me.
Have you solved the question of my existence?"

After the spell is reversed:

<The sapling does not stir. Its leaves are shriveled and wilted. It looks quite dead.>