Linda stayed up all night studying again, but now she has a story for us, complete with pictures even!
Long ago, when the light of Aideen spread over Jorvik and life was brought to the island, a handful of life wardens were created. They were trees that were tasked with guarding all this new life. They were the protectors of the flora and fauna of Jorvik.
When humans discovered Jorvik, they found these immortal trees, and initially respected them. The humans could tell the trees were special and served a higher purpose. The trees came to be known as primeval trees.
The primeval trees looked different in the olden days. They were stronger and much more magnificent, and had magical abilities. Now they are all dormant, sleeping away the exhaustion of having their energy sapped away by the mistreatment of Jorvik's natural resources.
The trees are still there, though, and they are connected to each other through their roots. There's an entire root system under the grounds of Jorvik that they can communicate with each other through.
We've already come across one of these primeval trees. The one on top of Scarecrow Hill, that held the golden apple we fed to Pi.
At least a half dozen primeval trees are known today, mentioned here and there in various records. One of these trees goes by The Sleeping Widow.
Once upon a time, the Forgotten Fields was a dense forest, full of life. It was protected by two primeval trees and they were a happy couple.
But then came Jarlaheim. When the city was built, the forest suffered. Trees were cut down for building material and firewood, and eventually cleared entirely to make room for houses and farmland.
In the excitement of a quickly growing city, the foresters made the mistake of cutting down one of the two primeval trees. Now all that's left of them is one stump, and one primeval tree so full of sorrow and loneliness, it's lost all its power. For a long time you could hear it wailing into the night, but it cried itself to sleep years ago.
Eventually the former forest, now grazing fields, was abandoned, leaving the widow to its lonely sorrow.
Well, that's a depressing story. I guess this is the tree we have to wake up. Linda sent me to Elizabeth to ask how one wakes a primeval tree.
Elizabeth said we need to wait until nightfall and water the tree with the tears of Aideen, the dew drops that come off of these flowers
and then shine some of the light of aideen on it. I had to recharge that magic aideen rock again
look at me doing magic! fun!!
I had everything I needed, just needed to wait until nightfall, so I went to Starshine to see how he and Lisa were holding out
He said he can still sense Lisa but she's very faint and he's losing her. We better hurry
Here it is, the sleeping widow. Now we wait for night
Spooky. It said I could feel the sorrow radiating off of the tree and it made me sleepy. Both Chance and I fell asleep waiting for dark.
I didn't get any pictures of me giving the tree the tears and light of aideen, but it glowed and creaked and seemed generally confused by being woken up, but happy to feel the light again.
It certainly looks more lively now.
I asked the tree if it can help us to save Lisa. It said it felt Lisa in its roots and she had promised to help it if it would help her out of pandoria. It said it will keep its promise and try to help, but it's still weak, and it doesn't know if it'll work.
It's a cool lightshow, anyway
The tree went back to sleep and I started running to see if Lisa was saved but...
Chance stopped and couldn't move. And then he screamed and the game told me he has been injured. I do NOT like that
And then this guy shows up
Hi Sabine come closer i just wanna talk
you did WHAT to my horse?! you're lucky im physically incapable of moving towards you or hurting you at all in this game. i'll shatter your whole stupid red-hooded face!
She gave her stupid villain speech about how we're gonna lose or whatever blah blah blah villain stuff shut up and fix my horse
But then
Lisa made a dramatic entrance, interrupting Sabine by telling her she's wrong and the Soul Riders will always be there to save the day. And then the two of them exchanged some banter for a bit about if dark core will succeed in bringing garnok back or not before Sabine vanished in a puff of smoke. yeah you better run
can we PLEASE address that Chance has a broken leg now?? that's like a death sentence for a horse!
i mean he looks fine to me lol sso you couldn't make a hurt leg animation? not even just reusing the hoofpicking animation so at least he's not standing on his apparently shattered leg? come on now
Oh okay, so he's fine then. Cool that the star circle has healing powers, that means I have them too, right? When do I get to do some healing?
And now he's good as new :)
Lisa said we should tell the druids about all this and also she wants to catch up on everything she missed, but she's been trapped in pandoria for a while and first she wants a shower and a good night's rest. That is most valid reason for a dayblocker I've seen yet. Go ahead and get some sleep, Lisa