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[REDACTED] was a world taken over by their life tree, and only after centuries passed into millennia, did the magma cool on the surface and life was able to grow once more. 

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Life grew on the surface again, the roots of the new All Tree spread. Some reached above the ground and matured into sproutlings, which were offshoots of the main tree containing its life sap and properties. Nature thrived around these hotspots of life tree energy, and over the course of natural evolution, civilizations built their societies around them.

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Wyndameer is one such society.

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Out of desperation, the king ordered an expedition to find resources for his starving people besieged by illness. A seasoned explorer pushed well beyond the pale of no man's land, fighting beasts and treacherous terrain, losing some of his men to the elements and the wilds until they came upon a flat-topped mountain. Nestled in the hollow of its steep faces, they found a fabled sproutling and immediately claimed the territory under Wyndameer's rule. A fortress was erected at the top of what was later named Mt. Ayre, a robust farming community was formed, and medicines were made using the refined sap of the sproutling.

 

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But there was something else under that mountain. A tunnel was discovered hidden under the vines and brush of the sproutling beneath Mt. Ayre, and an expedition was sent. It took the crew four days of walking through the winding tunnels and mapping them out before they reached the core and discovered the prime life tree, and all the creatures it had been providing for in the span of thousands of years, many of which had evolved over that time to become like cave dwellers. The men were horrified and tried to blockade the tunnels as they ran from 'monsters' who had not initially acted towards them with aggression. ​​​​​​

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The more intelligent beings below such as the fae-kind were ecstatic upon learning that life was thriving above again, but any of them that might have breached the blockade or found another way out were met with prejudice and fear. Many were attacked on sight, which lead to skirmishes back and forth between the humans above and the fae kind below.

 

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A tentative peace was eventually struck between the kingdom of Wyndameer and the mythics living in the core of the earth, but equality was never fully realized. Prejudice remained on both sides, but the one thing they could all agree to was maintaining the safety and health of the life tree and all its sproutlings.