The Great Palm is the oldest tree on Aurea, although it is not the largest, as bearded palms cannot outgrow some of Aurea's native conifers. Like all of the other Scions of Heaven, The Great Palm was planted by Brahma, the 2nd Man of Light and Shadow, who grew it from a cutting taken from a bearded palm tree in Heaven's Arcane Garden. The Great Palm, located on the slope of Mount Decissa on Aurea, is magically powerful enough to survive the chilly temperatures of that altitude, even though a regular bearded palm planted there would freeze to death. This palm tree, as well as all of Mount Decissa in general, is viewed as sacred ground by all Aureans, and its fronds are used in religious ceremonies at the Temple of Holy Wisdom in Astras. Mount Decissa is viewed by Aureans as the home of the Gods, and this is not entirely wrong, as The Great Palm is the only Scion of Heaven whose root portal to the Nether Realm still works. While the Gods mostly stopped interacting directly with the Physical Realm after the death of Alexandros, any interaction with the Physical Realm they did still do was conducted through The Great Palm.