The Faerie Ring times, a tree of sheol simply withers and dies once the putti leaves and doesn’t become a tormented flower of sheol The implication, of course, is that the transfer was complete—that no essence, no matter how fragmentary, remained within the tree It is not clear what (if any) implication this has for the putti in question However, it does seem that those individuals have been the more sociable putti and those more likely to wander the multiverse Environment: Flowers of sheol originate in Korapira’s gardens in the Heartwood—the only place the putti are created—and they wander around aimlessly from their point of creation They can be found scattered about the Heartwood and Tanarao and, unfortunately for everyone else, they wander anywhere the Heartwood connects Quite a few have ‘Take my lifetime, and give me the half of the Ephemera’s life! Free me from my found a home within imprisonment, give me human life, human joy for a short space, only this single Strangle Grove Red night, if it must be so, and punish me thus for my presumptuous spirit, my longing Jack has encouraged for life! Annihilate me; let the fresh, young tree that encloses me then wither and this, fi nding them an fall, become ashes, and be scattered to the winds.’ intriguing reminder of —Hans Christian Andersen, death “The Dryad,” Society: Flowers of Fairy Tales and Other Stories sheol have no society (trans Craigie) and are little more than mindless forces Sentinels are pieces of the natural world that harbor a fey spirit deep inside of nature, operating on They can comprise entire patches of land, like liminal outlands, or merely some random fury What little aggregated debris Largely due to Korapira’s obsessive research, most sentinels personality they have are plant-based, composed of living specimens, litterfall, drift wood, deadfalls, manifests pendulumflowers, moss, and a wide variety of similar materials However, sentinels can like: one moment, also be made from mineral and even animal parts tireless whirlwinds of Sentinels are not entirely dissimilar to golems and other constructs The primary violence, and the next, difference is the fey spirit within, the spark of erratic emotion and creativity placid and detached necessary for sentience Whether spontaneously or artificially, a new and unique Oddly, they seem spirit forms within a sentinel, giving each a personality, an intelligence, a life all to cluster, almost as if its own Sentinels display a huge range of behavior and demeanor: some have little preferring the proximity more intelligence and ability than common pets while others are stupendously of other f lowers of brilliant and powerful It is speculated that this process is similar to that which sheol during the quiet creates a quiddity moments They are thought not to be able Korapira and Red Jack But the process appears to be less than perfectly efficient, and the excess essence of the victim, shattered and fragmented as it is, converts the already odd tree into a fey sentinel, awakening it to a world of madness In a sudden fury of activity, the creature—now a flower of sheol—rips its roots from the ground and ambles about Possessing only fragments of thought and emotion, it fumbles forever in a state of confusion and lashes out at all life with appendage-like branches, seeking a solace that only death can bring On occasion, though, perhaps once in a hundred Sentinels — 83 —