By Diamond
They chopped down the tree...
Well, I assumed one of the first Barons of Vandéol would have probably chopped down that huge tree to do some convenient beams for his future castle. This family has a high count of bastards who don't care much about trees, nor their own peasants for that matters ...

By Falconius
After a thousand years it may have died of natural causes.
Yup, possible indeed. Though I saw it as a great tree planted by the first fairy inhabitants of the place.

Late update of the day. I'm groping, as usual, about colors and shading.
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