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{{Distinguish|World Tree|Great Tree}}
 
{{Distinguish|World Tree|Great Tree}}
 
[[File:Ardenweald concept 2.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Concept art.]]
 
[[File:Ardenweald concept 2.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Concept art.]]
'''Dream trees'''<ref name="Shadowlands site">{{Ref web|url=https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/shadowlands|title=Shadowlands - Home|author={{Blizz|Blizzard Entertainment}}|accessdate=2020-08-27|quote=''Within this eternal forest, massive dream trees draw in precious anima—soul essence—to feed the spirits of nature awaiting rebirth.''}}</ref><ref name="Ardenweald preview">{{Ref web|url=https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/23434527/|title=Shadowlands Preview: Ardenweald and the Night Fae Covenant|author={{Blizz|Blizzard Entertainment}}|date=2020-06-03|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200603172849/https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/23434527/shadowlands-preview-ardenweald-and-the-night-fae-covenant|archivedate=2020-06-03|quote=''Within this eternal forest, massive dream trees draw in precious anima—the essence of souls that flows through the Shadowlands—to feed the spirits of nature awaiting rebirth into the cycle.''}}</ref> or '''anima trees'''<ref name="Polygon">{{Ref web|url=https://www.polygon.com/2020/8/20/21364904/shadowlands-ardenweald-zone-preview-world-of-warcraft-night-fae|title=Shadowlands’ Ardenweald is World of Warcraft’s weirdest forest yet|author=Cass Marshall|publisher=Polygon|date=2020-08-20|accessdate=2020-08-27}}</ref>, or '''celestial trees'''<ref>[[Animacone (A Dangerous Harvest)]]</ref><ref>[[Lady Moonberry]] during [[Choosing Your Purpose]]</ref> are enormous trees found throughout [[Ardenweald]]. They are responsible for drawing in [[anima]], which is then used by the [[Night Fae Covenant|Night Fae]] to rejuvenate spirits of nature slumbering within Ardenweald's [[wildseed]]s.<ref name="Shadowlands site"/><ref name="Ardenweald preview"/> [[Heart of the Forest|Tirna Achiad]] was the first such tree of Ardenweald.
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'''Dream trees'''<ref name="Shadowlands site">{{Ref web|url=https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/shadowlands|title=Shadowlands - Home|author={{Blizz|Blizzard Entertainment}}|accessdate=2020-08-27|quote=''Within this eternal forest, massive dream trees draw in precious anima—soul essence—to feed the spirits of nature awaiting rebirth.''}}</ref><ref name="Ardenweald preview">{{Ref web|url=https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/23434527/|title=Shadowlands Preview: Ardenweald and the Night Fae Covenant|author={{Blizz|Blizzard Entertainment}}|date=2020-06-03|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200603172849/https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/23434527/shadowlands-preview-ardenweald-and-the-night-fae-covenant|archivedate=2020-06-03|quote=''Within this eternal forest, massive dream trees draw in precious anima—the essence of souls that flows through the Shadowlands—to feed the spirits of nature awaiting rebirth into the cycle.''}}</ref> or '''anima trees'''<ref name="Polygon">{{Ref web|url=https://www.polygon.com/2020/8/20/21364904/shadowlands-ardenweald-zone-preview-world-of-warcraft-night-fae|title=Shadowlands’ Ardenweald is World of Warcraft’s weirdest forest yet|author=Cass Marshall|publisher=Polygon|date=2020-08-20|accessdate=2020-08-27}}</ref>, or '''celestial trees'''<ref>[[Animacone (A Dangerous Harvest)]]</ref><ref>[[Lady Moonberry]] during [[Choosing Your Purpose]]</ref> are enormous trees found throughout [[Ardenweald]]. They are responsible for drawing in [[anima]], which is then used by the [[Night Fae Covenant|Night Fae]] to rejuvenate spirits of nature slumbering within Ardenweald's [[wildseed]]s.<ref name="Shadowlands site"/><ref name="Ardenweald preview"/>
   
 
[[Animacone]]s are seeds of condensed anima that fall from the celestial trees.<ref>[[Animacone (A Dangerous Harvest)]]</ref>
 
[[Animacone]]s are seeds of condensed anima that fall from the celestial trees.<ref>[[Animacone (A Dangerous Harvest)]]</ref>

Revision as of 17:34, 1 December 2020

Not to be confused with World Tree or Great Tree.
Ardenweald concept 2

Concept art.

Dream trees[1][2] or anima trees[3], or celestial trees[4][5] are enormous trees found throughout Ardenweald. They are responsible for drawing in anima, which is then used by the Night Fae to rejuvenate spirits of nature slumbering within Ardenweald's wildseeds.[1][2]

Animacones are seeds of condensed anima that fall from the celestial trees.[6]

Description

The souls delivered unto our wild home may depart when they wake, but the great trees of Ardenweald never forgot those they sheltered beneath their boughs.[7]

Named trees

Trivia

  • From early on in Ardenweald's development, the artists pictured huge pillar-like trees that held up the firmament and whose canopy became a nebulous mass of magic. Environment artist Gabriel Gonzalez wanted to create something that felt very iconic to Ardenweald, had some movement, and incorporated the symbolism of life and rebirth, leading to the idea of a tree whose branches twisted into a kind of celestial net (which is also a nod to things seen in the Emerald Dream).[3][9]
  • According to art director Ely Cannon, ensuring that the dream trees had the desired effect required special work with new technology. Most trees in World of Warcraft belong to the same model type as props like crates and fences. However, in the case of the dream trees, they are so large that Blizzard had to use world model objects—a model type normally reserved for dungeons and raids and which can support a further-away level of detail. They also support "infinite draw", allowing the trees to always appear on-screen no matter how far away the player is, creating epic vistas in the zone that would be impossible with a normal tree. In addition, dream trees are animated in a way that the artists had never tried before; the spinning canopies are a separate element placed on top of the tree model and marked with infinite draw so that they also load from any distance.[3][9]
  • During development there was a tree called "Tirna Fein".
  • The prefix "Tirna" is likely inspired by the realm of Tír na nÓg in Irish mythology, and means "Land of". This forms a contrast with Azerothian World Trees, whose typical suffix "-drassil" is inspired by Yggdrasil in Norse mythology.
  • Each of the words used following "Tirna" is either a word or based on a word in Gaelic or Welsh.

Gallery

References

 
  1. ^ a b Blizzard Entertainment Blizzard Entertainment. Shadowlands - Home. Retrieved on 2020-08-27.​ “Within this eternal forest, massive dream trees draw in precious anima—soul essence—to feed the spirits of nature awaiting rebirth.
  2. ^ a b Blizzard Entertainment Blizzard Entertainment 2020-06-03. Shadowlands Preview: Ardenweald and the Night Fae Covenant. Archived from the original on 2020-06-03.​ “Within this eternal forest, massive dream trees draw in precious anima—the essence of souls that flows through the Shadowlands—to feed the spirits of nature awaiting rebirth into the cycle.
  3. ^ a b c Cass Marshall 2020-08-20. Shadowlands’ Ardenweald is World of Warcraft’s weirdest forest yet. Polygon. Retrieved on 2020-08-27.
  4. ^ Inv herbalism 70 yserallineseed [Animacone]
  5. ^ Lady Moonberry during N [60] Choosing Your Purpose
  6. ^ Inv herbalism 70 yserallineseed [Animacone]
  7. ^ The Art of World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, page 123
  8. ^ N [60] The Boon of Shapes
  9. ^ a b Garth Holden 2020-08-20. A deep dive into Ardenweald, the Shadowlands realm of hibernation. SA Gamer. Retrieved on 2020-08-27.