

In Zetsuen No Tempest the Tree of Beginnings/Genesis was actually responsible
behind the Black Iron Sickness which involved turning people into iron/black
iron. On the wikia it says this...

> Black Iron Sickness (黒鉄病, Kurogane Byou) is a disease thought to be caused
> by the awakening of the Tree of Zetsuen. It is actually caused by the Tree
> of Beginnings trying to stop the Tree of Zetsuen from awakening.

But what would this have achieved in turning people into iron and how would
this stop the Tree of Zetsuen/Exodus from being revived by Samon?


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Why did the Tree of Beginnings turn people into Iron?


To prevent people who desire to revive the tree of zetsuen from retrieving the
fruit. But the tree of beginning did not expect the kusaribe clan(immune to
the magic) to be the one reviving the tree of zetsuen.


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When I watched Zetsuen no Tempest, the whole time I was working off the idea
that it was a form of 'defense mechanism'.

It should be somewhat obvious, that turning them into Iron / Black Iron was
just it's unique form of an attack (just as people with guns can fire bullets,
and people with swords can swing them). That appeared to be it's power for
killing / disabling them.

As we can observe, the tree has a certain favoritism for Hakaze Kusaribe. The
tree would've been doing what it thought was 'beneficial for Hakaze', and
innocent people being caught up could just been result of the tree **freaking
out**. After saving Hakaze from the Time Prison, it no longer cared _that
much_ about others. Just who to protect, and what to prevent.

> ...Tree of Beginnings devours civilizations and attempts to dispose Fuwa
> Mahiro and Takigawa Yoshino because the Tree of Beginnings had accomplished
> its goal by using Fuwa Mahiro and Takigawa Yoshino to save Hakaze from the
> time prison.

As for 'how it prevented the Tree of Zetsuen / Exodus's revival', having the
innocent people caught up did not have anything to do with it. As long as it
caught **one** of Samon's allies in every **100** innocent, it'd be
successful.


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