Roots of Life

Long ago, when the land was new; it was home to all of life's beautiful creatures. At the heart of this lovely land was the Spring of the gods. Legend said the Goddess of life and nature cried here when she was the last god alive when the corruption started. She drowned in her tears here so the decay could not touch this one spot.  As the Humans and other races continued to live amongst lifelessness. A fae brought a spared seed to a tree. Not knowing what would become of her or the seed, she would walk into the spring and sink. Lower than the earth below her. Thus the tree of life began to grow. With the love of the selfless fae and tears of the goddess to fill its cup, the tree grew stronger than any other tree and brought back what little life it could to this empty shell of a world.

On one of the branches, before it sprouted a leaf, a tear shared by the fae and goddess crystallized and dropped at the roots of the tree. They began to wrap around the gem, Saving it for the one born of both human and fae to bring life back to the land.