The Main Weapon Tree is a hybrid organic-technological entity grown in the Arcanum Forge from the seed into which the AI RAJ-750 transformed. It is a living artifact that bears weapons as fruit; a shoot of it reappeared as the Gulthias Tree under Stejara.
| Type | Place (living artifact) |
| Location | Floor of the Great Abyss, Ardis Vala Mega-Dungeon |
| Spanish entry | Árbol de Armas Principal |
History
- RAJ-750, the Rudishva AI of the weapons module (Trolls Lock Cavern elevators), became a seed.
- The Priscians under Nerub Null obtained a gem that gave access to the forge.
- In the Ardis Vala gesta (campaign-cycle), the Seekers entered the forge through the Priscians.
- The forge, activated with the seed, grew the Main Weapon Tree.
- The Priscians took away a shoot or cutting of the tree.
- Part of it appeared as a rhizome beneath Stejara and built there the Gulthias Tree, later visited by Los Condenados (“the Condemned”).
Nature
- A Rudishva AI core (RAJ-750 transformed, a mechanical consciousness).
- Living plant tissue grown by the forge.
- Weapons as fruit: swords, axes, daggers and “nameless things” hanging from the branches.
- A light that should not exist in the dark.
- A cosmological bond with Arcanum.
The Gulthias Tree
Under the ravine of Stejara the rhizome produced a huge, gray, leafless tree, “a living panoply”, hung with gleaming weapons. It is the Gulthias Tree of the Sunken Citadel, a plant vampire, and a local manifestation of the Main Weapon Tree, not a separate entity. It operates in the domain of Valakhan of the Mist.
Bellaca — Lali turned into a vampiress whose head comes off — rules it as its queen, seated among the roots as on a throne. Roots grow from her shoulders and her eyes are entirely green. She hands out weapons and consecrates a new order, the Knights of the Weapon Tree.
Open questions
- The current state of the main tree is unrecorded.