Twingods Tree

The Twingods Tree was one of the native flora of the planet Moragi.

Twingods Trees were common across the world of Moragi, and were, as was nearly all the flora and fauna of that planet, coloured in a stark binary. The trunk of the tree and its branches were a shade of deep crimson red, while the leaves on the trees were a luscious blue. In the spring, the trees had yellow blossom.

The trees bloomed almost everywhere on Moragi, especially in the nearby massive fields that surrounded the central city of Gorojai, the heart of the whole kingdom of Moragi. Frequently they could be seen perched by pools of shimmering silver water, where Glimmering Glammerfish would swim below.

Their name was based on the fact that they were considered to have special properties, being in their imagery the reflection of the colours of Moragi's two central gods, the "Mother" of them all, Vulkanna, and the "Father", Volkaniss, Moragians were also red and blue, their skin red and their hair blue, and thus they felt the perfect symmentary of the colours across Moragi were reflections of the gods. The trees were especially considered so.

In the Moragi people's mythology they believed that this tree has sacred properties, modelled after their twin gods, the Mother Vulkanna and Volkaniss, wife and husband to each other and Mother and Father to the people of Moragi, their skin a deep red, while Volkaniss' mighty beard and Vulkanna's flowing hair both a stark, deep sapphire blue (the Moragi themselves had red skin and blue hair, again, modelled, they thought, after their gods). The tree therefore was named after them due to this central duality of the colours of blue and red, and the wider belief system of the Moragis, with its stern emphasis on binaries of good and evil, sin and non-sin.

Unfortunately this tree, along with all life on Moragi, was destroyed completely after the eruption of a twin-barrelled super volcano called Vulkorijima (unknown to the Moragis, who, being still fairly primitive in their beliefs despite their nascent space faring technology, venerated it as the physical embodiment of the two gods, a steaming mountain is what they thought it was). Ultimately, due to a disaster involving the attempt to harness its vast volcanic activity for purported geo-thermal energy (under a lie told by a conman Tibberidian businessman) it exploded with a magnitude and force that cracked apart almost every fault line on the planet, and spew a radius of ash which covered the whole planet in a nuclear winter, killing all life in a matter of minutes.

No known samples of the planet were taken outside the planet (having achieved only a bare minimum of space-flight technology, and barely having ventured to the end of the 4th planet in their solar system), meaning it is now classed as extinct.