Tamour Tree

The Tamour Tree is a unique plant that grows in the Chathua Plains in the southern part of the Gnoll nation of Tabrua. The round, orange fruit it grows is sweet and delicious. The average Tamour can grow over 100 feet in height. The bark is white in color. With the leaves being light green and rounded with short leaf stalks. The branches are thick and grow between 40 and 60 feet in width. The bark is used to make incense for certain religious ceremonies. The roots are used to make an inhaled anesthetic and the leaves can be ground into healing poultices. The tree itself gives off a sweet-smelling aroma that has a calming effect on creatures. Creatures that come withing 15 feet of the tree find themselves unable to become hostile and often predators and their prey animals will be found lying down together under the shade of a Tamour’s branches. The Ibubesi, or lion folk, tribes consider the trees sacred and treat each one with the respect they would give an elder tribesman. Due to the strange properties of the Tamour, the Ibubesi believe that trees were a gift from the spirits. The Tabrua have been studying the trees for generations and had long ago started growing specimens outside the trees’ natural habitats. They have had some mild success as the farm-grown specimens only seem to grow half the size of the wild growing ones and the medicines that are made from them are potent, but not nearly as much as a wild grown Tamour Tree. If one of these trees is found in a previously unknown location, it is often seen as a good omen, depending on the beliefs of whichever group finds it. Clerics of healing and nature type deities will make incense from the bark and one who finds such a tree is often seen as favored by their gods.