diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index add2f74e..ad7ffcce 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -16,3 +16,6 @@
 	path = lit
 	url = https://github.com/thepaperpilot/The-Modding-Tree.git
 	branch = lit
+[submodule "the_ascension_tree"]
+	path = the_ascension_tree
+	url = https://github.com/thepaperpilot/the_ascension_tree
diff --git a/the_ascension_tree b/the_ascension_tree
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..8f3cd1b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/the_ascension_tree
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 8f3cd1b852eac7ec541bbe023326458397fc6def