Nariphon

As a relict creature, the Nariphon is as old as Imlorian itself. A single Nariphon can be confused as mere tree and they can come in a variety of different types. They often look much larger and healthier than a normal tree however. What makes them special is that their fruits give off pheromones which attract creatures to them. The fruits are semi-sentient and can travel far from the Nariphon itself. Those who eat of the fruit enter a deep sleep; the broken fruit alerting the Nariphon to its location so that it can devour the sleeping victim with its roots which can span entire forests.

Lifecycle
During two solstices, the Nariphon enters a state of hibernation where they no longer bear fruit and instead conserve their energy for the equinoxes where they are more comfortable in their environments. There is often only one Nariphon in a single location at any given time as they are extremely territorial and they have been known to survive up to thousands of years.

Fruits
Nariphon trees have been documented to bear two types of fruit; known to most as either 'safe' or 'dangerous'. In actual fact, these are the same fruits, the safer ones not yet having matured to excrete the pheromones and sleep-inducing toxins.

• Safe - these fruits are of a blue colouring and contain very healthy properties including mana regeneration. They are about the size of crabbe apples with a sweet tasting core.

• Dangerous - these fruits have matured and have turned to a colour of green with patches of a misty pink. They are seem able to move of their own accord roaming around on their stem-like legs. They secrete a pheromone that causes animals of a large variety to become overwhelmed with the urge to eat it. Those that do tend to succumb to the sleep-inducing toxin that is consumed. The sleep that is triggered by the fruit's consumption has been known to last for up to two days in which time the Nariphon would have surely devoured the victim with its extensive network of roots below.

Notable Nariphon Trees
• The Nariphon of Kemirosa - the tree here had been pacified by some Vikken priestesses during the Age of Genesis and has been kept as such ever since. Although it still bears fruits, it does not bear its more sleep-inducing ones and seems to sentiently provide safe fruit for the populace as they keep it fed with their own share of live-stock.

• The Painted Nariphon - deep within the Painted Forest, the tree reigns strong. The unwary traveller has been known to lose themselves here and it is known by the residents of Eorien that the forest's Nariphon is most likely responsible as it seems to have such an insatiable hunger that the fruits of the tree have been witnessed to wander into nearby towns.