![[gulthias tree.jpg]] *The meeting place at [[Yester Hill]] is a desolate and eerie location, shrouded in an unsettling aura of darkness. Located at the south end of the hilltop, a sickly copse, a grove of dead trees and shrubs that are stripped of their leaves and barren of any sign of life. At its core, a huge, misshapen tree looms, its trunk twisted and gnarled in a grotesque fashion. Blood oozes like sap from its bark, giving the tree an otherworldly and menacing appearance.* *Embedded deep within the trunk of the tree is a shiny battleaxe, an ominous sign of the dark power that lies within. Beneath the weapon, a humanoid skeleton lies, a silent witness to the evil that has taken root in this place.* *The tree, known as the Gulthias tree, is the only one of its kind in Barovia, and it creates blights from ordinary plants, twisting and corrupting them into malevolent, animated beings. These blights stand guard over the desolate meeting place, their glowing eyes and sharp thorns a warning to anyone foolish enough to venture too close.* *Those who are slowly tainted by the lands and its master will often find themselves meeting at Yester Hill, a place of dread and danger, where the forces of darkness and corruption hold sway, and where life has been replaced with death and decay.*