Disease: Hellspore Blight (Tier 2-3)

A beautiful but invasive species, fiendbloom is known for being deadly and having an alluring, distinctive pink coloring—and to the learned, the production of deadly hellspores. Hellspore blight occurs when a humanoid comes in contact with fiendbloom or their hellspores, forcing it to make a Constitution saving throw (DC 14 for tier 2 or DC 18 for tier 3). On a failed saving throw, the creature becomes afflicted with the disease, though there are no immediate signs of infection.

At the end of every week and whenever it suffers a level of fatigue from something other than this disease, the infected creature repeats the Constitution saving throw or suffers a level of fatigue. 1 After three failures, the infected creature is permanently polymorphed into an immobile soultree.

Soultree. This tree is initially covered in fragrant pink flowers and has lush lime green leaves, but soon after blossoming it becomes withered and starved, its thin branches stretched outward almost like arms. Recognizing the face of the petrified victim within a withered soultree for what it is (rather than knots and burls) requires a DC 16 Perception check, but spotting one blossoming with fiendbloom requires only a DC 15 Arcana, Nature, or Religion check.

When a soultree is damaged (AC 13, 12 hit points) its bark shears away and emits a screaming noise in a 30-foot radius. Each creature in the area makes a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw or becomes frightened of the soultree for 1 minute. A frightened creature repeats the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. When it succeeds on a saving throw or the effect ends for it, a creature is immune to that soultree’s scream for 24 hours. Should the wood from a destroyed soultree be burned, the soul of the transformed creature is drawn into the Fey Flower in Spinnelund. Afterwards the transformed creature cannot be brought back to life through any means short of a wish spell.

Hellspore blight can only be cured before an infected creature transforms into a soultree. Curing hellspore blight with mundane methods or magic requires a Medicine check or spellcasting ability check (DC 14 for tier 2 or DC 18 for tier 3). A blueheart potion automatically cures a creature infected with hellspore blight.