Place · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

The all-tree

One tree under the whole sixth floor, reflecting magic; a whisperer of apostates to a god; Grimaldi's roots. The high elves' castle stands in the middle of a grove of its outcroppings.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 24 — The rock chucker
• Chapter 25 — Fort Freedom
• Chapter 55 — Save the toraline
• Chapter 63 — Enchanted Hammer of Fast Forward

Arc

Holger raises the alarm that the all-tree has been attacked (ch. 24): any forest-kin within a few hundred metres of an outcropping is protected from magic, because the tree sucks the spell in and turns it on the caster, killing the outcropping, which grows back in a few months (ch. 25). A warning follows: stay away from all-trees, which whisper an apostate's location to Diwata (ch. 55). Grimaldi was planted beside a node and became one with the tree, as they all do in the end; its roots have survived every infestation (ch. 63).