The Bearer's Sleeping Root.

A beautiful, reddish, spruce-like root, this evil plant is the enchanted remnant of a giant tree which once stood on the shores of eastern Endor. This 600 foot tall tree was planted by Morgoth's minions and sprang from a cursed seed of Telperion, the Silver Tree of Valinor. Poisoned by the foul secretions of Ungoliant, it sent out a network of roots that comingled with and dominated every plant within a league. Fortunately,itwas cut down by the Elf-lord Ingwë before it slaughtered or perverted all of the local Olvar and made easternmost Endor unliveable.

The Istar Alatar discovered the Sleeping Root around T.A. 1200 and foolishly nurtured it out of dormancy in order to understand its nature and borrow its strength. The Root's power is immeasurable and, if given the chance to grow again, the danger it presents is beyond comprehension. Sentient and exceedingly evil, the foul Root seeks to control all its fellow Olvar, seeding new trees that share its awful purpose.

The Sleeping Root is but a shadow of its former self. Located in a 120 foot deep pit, it is a mass of entangled subterranean limbs about 300 feet across. It is sheltered from the elements, since the opening to the pit is only 6 feet in diameter.

The Root's limbs can move up to 30' in a given round, striking foes with one to ten +60 Grappling & Unbalancing attacks. Once in the Root's grasp, victims receive one + 100 Huge Crush attack per enveloping limb, as well as a 12th level dose ofD u r t h r o n d. (RR failure of 01-l00 results in victim falling into sleep for 1-100 hours; RR failure of 101+ results in the victim's death.)