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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl
I would actually take the description at face value, with the most ancient trees being 10 km tall and 1 km wide, with a branch system and a root system 10 km across, meaning a mass of ~20 billion metric tons. Such trees would take ten thousand years to grow, would live one hundred thousand years, and would support multiple ecosystems. Such a tree would support a halfling town and dozens of supporting villages, or a single halfling city.
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Long ago I imagined a world based around trees like that. I called the parallel, Yggdrasil. My small peoples evolved similar to the ant species that live symbiotically with acacia trees.
(I don't know anything about Yrth as I lack the Banestorm books. Nice to see I reinvented the wheel.)