#great tree

AGDQ 2025 - Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana

by Jorge Jacinto

Like I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure the Sacred Tree and Great Tree are seperate entities. The Cursed by Light movie literally shows them having different designs.

Like the Sacred Tree lies in the Fairy realm (only accessible to fairies) and the Great Tree lies in the Fairy King’s Forest. I always understood that the Great Tree was an extension of the Sacred Tree but in Britannia. Since the Fairy King’s Forest acts like a border between the human and fairy realm.

And just to support my reasoning that I’m not crazy and they are in fact different: Don’t you think it’d be a pretty big deal if the literal GOD OF THE FAIRIES DIED FROM A RED DEMON. And like don’t you think it’d be a bigger deal for fairies if your god/creator died? Instead of just a “Boo Harlequin you suck” moment.

Anyways this is a rant I remember having in my head four years ago, and I just wanted to get it out.

(Idk guys am I delusional?)

When I pick up a wild ant such as this Camponotus pennsylvanicus minor worker I’m always anxious that I return her to her colony. I followed her after letting her go. She ran the full length of a football field then suddenly up a pole. Waiting there another ant of the same species. They fussed over each other. Grooming and feeding each other for several minutes. Then they tucked into a nook in the fence and went to sleep! I guess they won’t be taking me to their main nest today.

I was trying to find the location of the main colony and looked up to see this huge tree stump. Probably cut down to keep leaves off of the field 😡— it was once home to a vast colony of probably 20,000 or more carpenters! The ants I saw are probably the great granddaughters of the single queen who sired the substantial colony that marked the great tree. The stump may prove home to many more large colonies as it decays— though, the universe of organisms that was once this tree cannot compare.

When one is invested in little creatures one can get quite worked up about the removal of large trees— they are whole worlds for little ants, pseudo scorpions, isopods, spiders, slugs, aphids and beetles—

I’ve been trying to count all of the species of invertebrate on a single tree near my apartment and have not reached a limit in three years— there are always more! and between them so much drama and excitement.

“When I Was Young”

Some fanart of Zhan Tiri in the Great Tree, from this fanfiction: https://archiveofourown.org/works/23370772/chapters/55996960

So…does anyone remember the branches of the Great Tree from the Jedi Temple being stolen back from the Empire by Luke and Shara Bey (Poe's mom) in the Shattered Empire comic? Did Lucasfilm/Story Group forget about that or did they change their minds about using it? I mean….I just thought that with Project Necromancer, the Empire wanting to clone Midiclorians or something like that, it'd be a good time to bring that up (I know- The Bad Batch takes place before Shattered Empire and before the OT, but still).

It just feels like an abandoned plot line.

I just can't help picturing (during Mando season 3) Kes and Poe whistling nonchalantly with their force tree in the background.