even months for an animal to come close enough Once a potential meal is within reach, it pounces, grappling an enemy to draw in and devour FLOWERS OF SHEOL Once a tree of sheol has produced its fruit—a putti—it enters the last stage of its life, becoming a flower of sheol, or sheol blossom This rampaging byproduct is a collection of confused fragments of thought consumed by fear and hatred It is believed that the victims of the tree of sheol — 82 — are reduced to base components in body, mind, and soul, then reshaped to produce the putti However, the process is incomplete and some of those memories linger in the tree—fragments of personality, echoes of terror—turning the creature into a frenzy of confusion and violence Typical Characteristics: The day after the putti floats away and the blooms shrivel and fall, the flower of sheol begins to thrash its limbs and wrench its roots It pulls free of the soil and wanders aimlessly, attacking anything that crosses its path, seeking a release from its torment A typical flower of sheol has three stumpy feet comprised of its knotted roots, and it uses its limbs for arms Even more disturbing, the form of the victim consu med to form the putti is typically visible in relief on the creature’s bole— the body outlines here , nd jutting out there, and the face, frozen in a scream of terror, presenting a false visage for the creature Development: The tree of sheol’s sole function is to produce a putti, but the process has the unintended side effect of producing a second creature— the flower of sheol The tree of sheol is very good at breaking down the life—body, mind, and soul—of sentient creatures and using those components to build a new life, that of the fey putti Th is is what it was designed to by