[ WP ] A 1000 year old tree gets cut down . Tell me why .

The Tree of Life. For a thousand years it stood resolute. When humans first came to these lands, it gave them its fruits, which gleamed like emeralds and rubies. When winter's frigid winds blew into the valley, it gave its knotted branches for shelter and fuel for the fires. It hid them from view from the horned Gurns, kept them safe from the fanged Kinlens. When the floods came, it lifted the humans up in its branches. But the people forgot. The tree's fruit became less juicy, its branches knarled and weak. The humans got angry at the tree, for they had come to expect the tree to be whatever they needed. They cursed the tree for its duller tasting fruit, for its nonsupporting branches. The tree's condition only worsened by the insults, and it withdrew into itself. Then one night, the people came, torches and axes in hand, and, just as they had taken the fruits and shelter, took the Tree of Life's life. 

