Ooh that's strange, are you sure you haven't misunderstood how a compas works? The red end of the needle will always point north, so to tell which way west or east is you line up the red point with N on the compas and the directions on the compas face should be correct with west to your left and east to your right.
It is true that when you turn 90 degrees to the right the red arrow will be pointing to the W on the compas but this only indicates that North is 90 degrees to the left of your facing. As the red end of the compas is magnetised to the north pole of the earth this should be how a real compas functions too by my understanding.
The tree creature wasn't based of any IRL folklore, or at eaast not intentionally, I just wanted to make something with a bit of a slenderman and weeping angel inspiration combined with seeing people play prop hunt.
Thank you for playing, I'm glad you had a good time.