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Cursed Oak

A cursed oak is a treant that has been blighted by an evil force,
transforming into a living gulthias tree, an engine of spreading
blight throughout once tranquil forests. This corrupted being
tirelessly carries out the will of the ancient evil that controls it,
and attempts to spread that evil wherever it can.
Soul of Gulthias. A cursed oak is the soul of the ancient
vampire Gulthias made manifest, and it harbors all of his evil
within its branches. These creatures have no semblance of their
former self left within them. Much like a normal gulthias tree, a
cursed oak spreads blight and creates blighted creatures, with the
only difference being its ability to move and act on its own.
Using this animation, a cursed oak forcibly uproots healthy
trees and plants, cursing them and then harboring the growth of
blighted brambles, toxic weeds, and others of their kind.
Wherever the cursed oak walks, these cursed plants follow,
growing with supernatural speed to engulf all that they come
across. If they encounter a settlement, that settlement may
disappear in a matter of days, or even a matter of hours, as plants
overwhelm the buildings and roads.
Blightlord. All other blights are beneath the cursed oak in the
chain of superiority. The cursed oak commands other blights,
creating strategies and tactics far beyond the mind of your
average blight. A cursed oak is always surrounded by other
blights, which serve as its spies and its bodyguards. Through its
system of roots, it can communicate with other blights within its
area of corruption, creating a vast network of command.
Curing the Curse. The curse of Gulthias is powerful dark
magic, and cannot be lifted by a remove curse alone. In order to
lift the curse and restore the treant to its former self, the oak must
first be knocked unconscious, such as through reducing its hit
points to 0 without killing it outright. Once it is unconscious,
another treant must perform an hour long ritual to lift the curse. If
the ritual is interrupted, it must be restarted from the beginning.

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