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==Warband Homeworld== Ever since the Battle of Rai, the Green Men have been based on the Death World of Arboria. A Daemon World prior to their arrival, it was meticulously cleared by the Green Men from all life and signs of civilisation, until but a barren orb remained. It was from this foundation that Galen remade the world to suit his perverted tastes. These days, Arboria is one of the deadliest planets in the Galaxy, with every blade of grass capable of killing an unprepared visitor. The planet's two continents are covered entirely in noxious jungles, where the the air itself is poison, and one of the strongest chemical weapons in the arsenal of the Green Men. Many of the trees there are possessed by Daemons, they constantly prowl the thickets in search for some fresh food to stuff into their gaping mouths glowing with a sickly green light. But even those which are not are deadly in their own right. Some tear their victims apart with prehensile branches, some grow neon-coloured fruits that explode in a hail of shrapnel on touch, and some house swarms of killer bees that live in symbiosis with them. The fauna of these forsaken woods is comprised of abominable chimerae who look like improbable combinations of mismatched body parts that should by all logic not live, yet are universally fast and deadly. The shores of Arboria's continents are washed by the Sargasso Ocean which is so overgrown with algae that is has more seaweed than it has water. Its surface is constantly covered with a thick layer of bright green phytoplankton that stings like fire. Those fools who would in spite of that venture into its waters are almost guaranteed to be eaten by colossal Cnidaria lurking in its depths. Rumours persist that the whole of Arboria has been transformed by daemonic forces from a rock into a cyclopean living fruit with stone-hard peel instead of the crust, baneful acidic juices circulating underneath it instead of magma and enormous seeds in its middle instead of the core. Each one of those seeds is said to contain a horrible Daemon personifying one of the destructive aspects of nature. If Arboria is ever destroyed, these Daemons would be set loose upon the Galaxy. ===The Tree of Woe=== Once it was known as Nikephoros Galen, the Grim Sower, the unchallenged leader and spiritual liege of the Green Men. Now it is the Tree of Woe, Arboria's most prominent landmark, a tree the size of a mountain that is clearly visible from space. Technically, it is not a plant, but an enormous Daemon in the shape of a tree, and its profane nature would be obvious to any observant onlooker. Its dry, blackened bark forms monstrous grinning faces, the veins on its leaves form arcane pentagrams and its gaping hollows constantly emit wails of pain and torment. This unholy place serves as a perverted fortress-monastery to the Green Men. Its upper branches that pierce the planet's toxic atmosphere serve as the landing docks for the warband's spaceships, its lower branches bend and creak under the load of its crude barracks cobbled together from rotting wooden planks, and its dark cavities lit by bioluminescent fungi serve as its great halls. The Green Men also keep their holy tree alive by a constant stream of sacrifices. They put their prisoners into narrow cages hanging on rusty chains from the tree's branches, cut their wrists and leave them bleed to death into the soil underneath the Tree of Woe. A constant downpour of blood has eventually turned it into a foetid bloody swamp, in which the tree's slime-covered roots writhe like colossal flayed worms. ===The Green Chapel=== The Green Chapel is both the residence of Tribulus Bercilak and the main centre of Galen's worship on Arboria. The columns of this Gothic cathedral are tree trunks, and its walls are formed by their intertangled branches. It is here that the Dendrarch reads his deranged sermons to the battle brothers of the warband. Its most distinguishing feature is the Holy Flowerbed, a personal garden maintained by Bercilak. The exquisite, fragrant flowers that grow there would be a great contrast to the monstrous flora of Arboria - if not for one important detail. Instead of flower pots, Bercilak plants his flowers into the bodies of living men chained to the floor, with their limbs amputated. The roots of his plants constantly suck their life juices, causing them enormous pain, while their pollen possessed of wonderful healing properties forces them to regenerate, keeping them alive. It is said that the oldest of the flower pots in Bercilak's collection have been there for several millennia. ===New Cockaigne=== The home of Vertumnus Alraun, New Cockaigne perfectly suits the madness of its master. At the first glance, this grove appears to be the only normal woodland in the whole of Arboria. Its trees bear a multitude of fruits of all shapes and colours, its bushes are lined with bright little berries, stout little mushrooms peek out from its grass here and there, and it's hard to make a step without crushing some of the nuts scattered on the ground. There is, of course, a twist to this paradise: all of the produce growing there is extremely poisonous, causing unbearable pain, madness and slow death. Like skeletons draped with skin, Alraun's starving prisoners wander about this cheerful garden, slowly driven insane by their hunger, yet unable to eat any of the succulent fruits hanging before them. There is no escape for them: Alraun's life-giving powers make sure that no matter how much they hunger, they can never die. When feeling particularly good, the Agromancer takes long strolls in his domain, stuffing himself with grapes and fruits from the silver plate carried by his butler servitor and chuckling softly at the suffering of his prisoners.
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