• Skua
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    1145 months ago

    No wonder everything is all fucked up, someone cut down the erdtree

    • BlanketsWithSmallpox
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      65 months ago

      Kirito how dare you.

      Lloyd Irving how dare you.

      Ryu or Myria from Breath of Fire how dare you.

      Flammie how dare you.

      How many other times has someone in Japan cut down world trees?

      • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot
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        55 months ago

        Tough to say, since in Dragon Quest XI whether or not it was cut down depends on your timeline.

  • @Carvex
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    915 months ago

    If it’s a tree stump, then something cut it off flat at the top, and I’m far more afraid of that thing than the tree stump.

  • @P34C0CK
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    695 months ago

    Having seen Devil’s Tower in person I’m trying to envision how massive that tree would be

        • bizarroland
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          15 months ago

          No the Earth was flat and then somebody cut down the yggdrasil, and the world curved under into a sphere to protect the seed of the next world tree until it is time for it to bloom

    • @[email protected]
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      235 months ago

      Probably between 300 m and 2 km tall, based on some quick reading about how tree height scales with diameter.

  • @RustyNova
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    415 months ago

    Buddy, we can clearly see the basalt formations. It’s probably yet another volcan that eroded

    • @jordanlund
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      395 months ago

      Petrified world tree stump. ;)

      • partial_accumen
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        355 months ago

        “In our arrogance we thought it would be there forever, our path to the heavens, to enlightenment, always within reach whenever it was desired. Instead we turned our eyes and souls to the Earth in any and every way to exploit it for our own desires. It was Astrid who could take our hubris no longer, climbing into Yggdrasil’s branches, then reaching down the trunk and severing it cleanly with the most silent whisper. Rising to the sky in Yggdrasil, she took our best potential with her to the heavens and left us to the Earth precisely what we had lusted after so cravenly. ‘Suffer in your righteousness now, children of Earth. You have sealed your own destruction’ said Astrid at last.” Source: some BS I just made up.

        • @[email protected]
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          75 months ago

          unfortunately, or fortunately, i think it’s more realistic to the mythos that thor chopped it down for firewood while drunk or something

    • @Confused_Emus
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      If anyone is actually curious, it’s an igneous intrusion - initially formed underground by magma pushing up into sedimentary rock and cooling there. Rather than an eruption of magma out of the ground, this was formed by the softer rock around the hardened magma eroding away and leaving this uncovered.

  • The Assman
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    355 months ago

    If the vikings had found this they would have freaked the fuck out

  • @BallShapedMan
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    355 months ago

    Pretty sure it’s made of mashed potatoes.

  • @[email protected]
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    305 months ago

    The Lokota name translates to Bear Lodge, it’s a sacred site for them and calling it Devil’s Tower isn’t great.

    • @[email protected]
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      When have colonisers and ‘settlers’ worried about that stuff? [yucatan (idkwym), calcutta (cut yesterday)]

  • THCDenton
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    255 months ago

    Honey, what does this remind you of?

  • @kemsat
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    235 months ago

    Blessed Erdtree

  • @Jackcooper
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    125 months ago

    “I’m just asking questions”

  • @AgentGrimstone
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    115 months ago

    Let’s go inside and see what ancient being has been slumbering for a malenia.