Size:
Type:
± Fey
Form:
Temper:
# App:
± 1
Lair:
Diet:
Combat Dice:
± 0
Hit Points:
± 0
Attack Rank:
± 0
Passive Defense:
± 0
Active Defense:
Damage Reduction:
± 0
Role:
Ground:
Climb/Arboreal:
Flight:
Swim:
Benthic:
Burrow:
Ethereal:
Actions/Abilities/Traits: Basic Fantasy
Actions/Abilities/Traits: Basic Fantasy
Offense
1 swarm of mirror butterflies
Circumstance: Combat
3d6 + blind
Special
Mirror Butterflies
The butterflies are actually part of the oak itself and completely under its control. They blind creatures for 1d6 turns with the reflections of their wings unless a save vs. Petrify is made. The swarm attacks blinded creatures by preference, doing 3d6 damage per round, stripping victims to bare bones. The oak draws nourishment from whatever they devour.
Special
Magical Gifts
Examples of the fruit and flowers that can be found among the golden oak's branches, the "gifts" it provides to its victims include:
- A flower resembling the flower of a pitcher plant in brilliant shades of violet and blue, contains magical ink that allows its user to inscribe a spell of any level with no coins needed for materials.
- Another flower heals wounds; when it is brewed into a tea it functions as if a heal spell had been cast.
- Yet another flower acts as a highly potent panacea when used in a poultice, acting as if both cure disease and neutralize poison spells have been cast.
- Fruit that can be found on the branches includes some that look like the most delicious, perfect, juicy rosy red apple. However, biting into it will cause near-instant death, and a month later, the victim will rise from the grave as a vampire.
- Another fruit, looking like a pear, contains 1d6 seeds, shaped like miniature dragon's teeth. When planted in the ground they grow into skeletons overnight, and will be obedient to the planter's commands.
Special
Cursed Gifts
Every gift received from the golden oak comes with an attached curse; anyone learning magic from, or using one of the oak's fruits or flowers will be subject to a curse as per the spell.
Special
Speaks All Languages
The golden oak speaks all languages, though it has no obvious mouth, its voice sounding like the wind through its branches.
Special
Teaches Spells
Golden oaks have the ability to teach Magic-users spells, though will only do so for a very steep price.
Special
Spellcasting
Golden oaks are powerful Magic-users in their own right, being able to cast spells up to 6th level as if they were a 12th-level Magic-user.
Environments
forest
A mystical tree-like fey that appears as a gigantic, ancient gnarled oak tree with metallic golden leaves
A mystical tree-like fey, the Golden Oak, or Fey Oak, is a dark malevolent creature that appears to be a gigantic, ancient gnarled oak tree, its branches covered with metallic, golden leaves. One oddity is that its branches also hold a weirdly-mixed selection of fruits and exotic flowers, all at once, and all year around.
Golden oaks are surrounded by many butterflies with mirror-like highly-reflective wings that flitter around the tree, swarming around any insects or small animals that approach the golden oak too closely, or around larger creatures the golden oak engages in combat, blinding them for 1d6 turns with the reflections of their wings unless a save vs. Petrify is made. Then the swarm will attack the blinded creatures by preference, each butterfly latching on with a set of tiny but razor-sharp teeth, the entire swarm doing 3d6 damage per round, not stopping until they have stripped their victim to nothing more than bare bones. Though it seems they are separate creatures, and the golden oak may promote this idea, the butterflies are actually part of the oak itself and completely under its control. It draws nourishment from whatever they devour as its primary means of feed
Basic Fantasy Field Guide Omnibus
Actions/Abilities/Traits: Basic Fantasy
A mystical tree-like fey that appears as a gigantic, ancient gnarled oak tree with metallic golden leaves
A mystical tree-like fey, the Golden Oak, or Fey Oak, is a dark malevolent creature that appears to be a gigantic, ancient gnarled oak tree, its branches covered with metallic, golden leaves. One oddity is that its branches also hold a weirdly-mixed selection of fruits and exotic flowers, all at once, and all year around.
Golden oaks are surrounded by many butterflies with mirror-like highly-reflective wings that flitter around the tree, swarming around any insects or small animals that approach the golden oak too closely, or around larger creatures the golden oak engages in combat, blinding them for 1d6 turns with the reflections of their wings unless a save vs. Petrify is made. Then the swarm will attack the blinded creatures by preference, each butterfly latching on with a set of tiny but razor-sharp teeth, the entire swarm doing 3d6 damage per round, not stopping until they have stripped their victim to nothing more than bare bones. Though it seems they are separate creatures, and the golden oak may promote this idea, the butterflies are actually part of the oak itself and completely under its control. It draws nourishment from whatever they devour as its primary means of feed
Basic Fantasy Field Guide Omnibus
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