The Story of the Silvarran Numaralumas Tree

"Eons ago, it is said that the moon provided our people with a gift of great value. Our ancestors passed down the story of the night that this gift descended from the heavens and made its way to our world. But as is the way of those greater beings, the goddess would not simply bring us this gift, our people first had to find it. And so, they wandered the desert, the place from where our people began, in search of this blessing, for many years until at last they came to a great crater. There, inside of that pit, grew the first Numaralumas Tree.
In those days, the tree was much larger than the ones we tend today, so our ancestors settled around the crater and protected the first tree. Over the generations, the animals and plants that provided for our people dwindled until survival would no longer have been possible. With no other choice, our people left that place, but with them, they brought saplings of the tree. Leaving the desert, they wandered until they found there way here, though along the way, many smaller clans broke off and settled, so that those that completed the journey here were few. 
The few that remained planted their saplings and kept them safe, until they stopped growing. They were much smaller than the first and our people worried that this was an open, but that year, for the first time, fruit grew on the tree, and they knew that the goddess still watched over them.
In the ages that have passed since that time, this fruit, the moondrop, has become such a critical part of our lives. Every year, the fruit grows. Some years there is a great abundance, but some years the tree scarcely produces enough for the festival. These are signs, the goddess is telling us what our family will face in the coming year, whether it is large bounty or terrible loss.
And this is why it is so important that we each do our part to tend to our family's Numaralumas Tree, for should we fail and the tree perish, so to shall our family."

a family elder explaining the importance of the Numaralumas Tree to the youngest members of her family.

Historical Basis

Where the origin of the tree is concerned, the is no evidence that the legend bares any truth.
In regards to the abundance or lack of Moondrops, the evidence is purely anecdotal and many of the younger generations believe it to be self fulfilling prophecies in that the older generations that do believe the story identify circumstances and attribute them to the harvest erroneously.