BESTIARY · THE EASTERN HILLS
The Rotcrown Stag
aka the Dying Beast, the Crowned Stag
The dying lord-stag of the eastern wood, its antlers crowned with a crystalline corruption — too strong to die, too wrong to live, dragging the wild into its slow ruin.
Once the lord stag of the eastern wood, its antlers have crowned over with a hard, glassy growth — a crystalline corruption rooted in living bone. It cannot heal and it will not die; it drags the wood's lesser beasts into its slow circling ruin, and where it beds down the grass comes up grey and wrong. The Cullers want it ended with one clean arrow before the corruption spreads. The Rootbound want it knelt where it falls, so life returns to the place and a whole glade grows from the cost. Warden Esk has, for once, refused to decide — which is why the matter waits on a stranger's hand.
KIND
monster
DANGER
Tier IV
HAUNT
The Eastern Hills
TEMPER
Hostile
Connected
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Model
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All Relationships (9)
located_in
- →The Eastern Hills — The stag holds the eastern wood of the hills, circling a bedding-ground where the grass has gone grey.
references
- →The Sundering — Its crowned antlers are a crystallized echo — the Sundering's ringing rooted in living bone.
- ←The Rootbound — The Rootbound want the stag knelt where it falls, so its echo fades into green and a glade grows from the cost.
- ←Warden Esk of the Oak — Warden Esk has refused to decide the stag's fate, leaving the choice to a stranger's hand.
- ←quest.the-dying-beast (unresolved) — The Greenwake's flagship fork turns entirely on the stag: cull it, or perform the full rite.
- ←A Culler's Tally — The tally counts the grey-grass ruin spreading from the stag's bedding-ground.
enemy_of
- ←The Cullers — The Cullers would end the stag with one clean arrow before its ruin spreads further into the wood.
- ←Maret of the Cullers — Maret is counting crystal-crowned skulls at the Cullhold — the stag's offspring are her tally now.
descendant_of
- ←The Drowned Lord-Stag's Bones — The drowned lord-stag is a southern cousin of the rotcrown-stag — a great stag of similar lineage that died differently.
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