World Trees

The World Trees are ancient trees scattered across the isle of Midrath, which can be cleansed to earn Mastery and unveil the World Map. They are home to numerous gameplay interactions:

• Votive Shrines, where the Envoy may pick up objectives such as Sparrow's Tales or Operations.

• Seamless visibility of nearby players, allowing World Trees to function as a Multiplayer hub. Envoys can be inspected to check their gear and Envoy Rank, and can be invited to the player's party.

• Message Boards, where players may leave messages for other Envoys to discover at each World Tree, with a template system combining predetermined words and phrases.

World Trees may be fast travelled to (as may Enclaves) after completion of The Waste Bear, by consuming a Wevetseed.

Each World Tree, when first discovered, will have an Ode'n

Duhk Halic

lance embedded into its bark.

Blighted World Trees can be interacted with to remove the Duhk Halic, earn Mastery, and unveil a portion of the World Map; alongside a portion of the Lore Poem for each tree. Cleansing all World Trees will reward the Envoy with Duhk Halic itself.

From the Votive Shrine at each World Tree, the Envoy may accept Votives; a broad term encompassing all of the objectives that can be found either on the Shrine, or by speaking to Enclave representatives found out in the overworld.

Votives may include randomly generated objectives such as Sparrow's Tales; or nearby World Events and Mini-Quests, located in specific locations around the map.

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  The Votive Shrine found upon one of Alca's World Trees.
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  The Votives interface, allowing the Envoy to select a nearby objective.

World Events may also be encountered by approaching them in the world, and do not necessarily have to be picked up via Votive. Their reward will not differ, whether they were begun from their Votive, or organically through exploration.

See the Votives page for more information, including a full list of all Votives.

Envoys may leave messages for other players to discover at each World Tree. Messages must be pieced together using a template system combining predetermined words and phrases.

Once the message has been composed, select 'Proclaim' to share it, at a cost of 50

Dracs

.

• Prior to Preludes 13, Envoys could type messages freely, subject to a profanity filter.

With each World Tree healed, an additional fragment of a poem will be revealed and added to the Journal:

Wet with salt, did she exalt, the Isle she swam unto. ('Rise, Envoy' World Tree)

Where next she roved, did sprout a grove, to clothe her frame in dew. (Curlail World Tree)

When she grew ill of Midrath’s chill, she willed a dell to sun. (Shewolf World Tree)

The coast she kissed, till sandy drifts lay soft beneath her run. (Wevetwood World Tree)

She heard it in a gale. (Moray World Tree)

“The Empress of Eldveil.” (Creedance World Tree)

A wayward stone dared prick her toe. Her raging raised a mountain. (Wyndoun Peaks World Tree)

Then from her tears, a river reared and from her sobs, a fountain. (Othavess World Tree)

They found her there and stroked her hair, the fauna, fey and flora. (Fort Kearnhold World Tree)

Within her eyes were dancing skies so they called her Alora. (Kairness World Tree)

They said it on a whim. (Kearnhold Highlands World Tree)

“Be you queen to our kin?” (Kearnhold Lowlands World Tree)

Her reign grew dull, she thought to cull the forest into bog. (Roods World Tree)

She screamed so loud, she carved a sound, but ‘hind her eyes, a fog. (Bracken Brae World Tree)

Her fey were fraught, so seeds they wrought, and grew us, Alca’s mind. (Castle Kearnhold World Tree)

T’our roots she prayed, “grant me a game.” Alca gave her humankind. (Northern Island World Tree)

• Prior to the addition of swimming in Preludes 14.5: Ode'n Tempers, the Northern Island off the northwestern coast of Midrath, containing the sixteenth World Tree, was inaccessible via regular means. It could be reached by clipping out of bounds from Preludes 9 through to Preludes 12, with varying methods as patches were released. Using Fast Travel, it could be accessed if a party member had already cleansed it.

• The World Trees' Multiplayer functionality was added in Preludes 14.5; before this, they did not function as Social Hubs other than the Messaging feature.

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  An Envoy approaches one of Midrath's Blighted World Trees.
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  A healed World Tree near Roods, with the village itself visible in the background.