The Timeless Tree

The Timeless Tree is both a community and a shrine. This vast oak stands in the central part of the Vesve Forest. It measures 160 feet high and it’s trunk has a curcumference of 55 feet. It’s branches span a 200 foot radius. Within this tree’s massive network of branches are treehouses of extraordinary elven design. Rope bridges and trailing vine ladders are everywhere, seeming almost to be part of the vast tree itself. This is the heart of the lands of the Grey Elves. Here heir seer, High Priestess Calandryen of Labelas Enoreth, holds court inside a glittering crystal chamber within the roots of the oak. This Chamber may only be reached from above, by a dimesion door effect. The oak is said to have been grown from from the same tiny group of acorns which gave rise to Oakvein in the Gnarly Forest. Calandryen can magically communicate with the Loremasters of Oakvein as she wishes. The Grey Elves seem only to passively resist the approach and advance of Iuz and the goblinoids of the Vesve. They certainly do not cooperate much with the woodmen, rangers, or even High-Elves. Their own partols are strictly watchful and defensive. If anyone were to ask Calandryen why the Grey-Elves choose this path, she would say, “Great and powerful magic is afoot which you know nothing about. Iuz has been on Oerth for bearly a century. I have been here for six, and my people have been here longer than any other race can tell. I saw Iuz born, and I will see him perish. He is bearly a small wave coming to the shoreline of history.” She is a preistess of Labelas Enoreth and it is impossible to convey any urgency or haste to her.

After the siege that was thwarted by the Heroes of Ironstead in 595CY, the elves quickly shored up their defenses of the tree by creating a massive, swampy moat around the area. They also worked to heal the scars on the tree as soon as they possibly could.