The Preborian Forest is a huge primeval forest located almost dead center in Marcandria, bordering Rosella to the north and Sillvengo to the south. The forest is often called The Forbidden Forest in Marcandria, with its name being a derivative of how the same term was pronounced in Marcandrian centuries ago. The forest gets its name due to how extremely hostile some of its inhabitants are towards civilization and civilized beings, with any Marcandrian entering the forest being attacked, to be driven out if lucky, to be killed if unlucky. The forest today largely untouched, with the only traces of civilization once having it under their domain being a single ruined road build by the Concalians, alongside the old ruins of a Concalian town build along it. The Marcandrians have made numerous attempts to create a trade route though the forest, as the shortened travel time it would create between Marcandria's northern and southern provinces is considered to be of strategic importance both in terms of economics, security, and to increase cooperation and cohesion among Marcandria's provinces. Attempts to maintain a north-south route through the forest has so far (as of 1353AD) failed, though lumbering activities and the clearing of land to create new pastures and farmland have slowly been pushing back the forest's boundary over the centuries.
+The Preborian Forest is a huge primeval forest located almost dead center in Marcandria, bordering Rosella to the north and Sillvengo to the south. The forest is often called The Forbidden Forest in Marcandria, with its name being a derivative of how the same term was pronounced in Marcandrian centuries ago. The forest gets its name due to how extremely hostile some of its inhabitants are towards civilization and civilized beings, with any Marcandrian entering the forest being attacked, to be driven out if lucky, to be killed if unlucky. The forest today is largely untouched, with the only traces of civilization once having it under their domain being a single ruined road build by the Concalians, alongside the old ruins of a Concalian town build along it. The Marcandrians have made numerous attempts to create a trade route though the forest, as the shortened travel time it would create between Marcandria's northern and southern provinces is considered to be of strategic importance both in terms of economics, security, and to increase cooperation and cohesion among Marcandria's provinces. Attempts to maintain a north-south route through the forest has so far (as of 1353AD) failed, though lumbering activities and the clearing of land to create new pastures and farmland have slowly been pushing back the forest's boundary over the centuries.
The Preborian forest is diverse in both flora and fauna, though the forest is most notable for the numerous fey creatures that inhabit it. These fey are chaotic beings with little in terms of governance or official leadership, though there exist individual fey who hold a lot of influence within the forest. While these fey are generally protective of their forest from outsiders, they are by no means under a single banner. Many cooperate with each other. Many have friendly symbiotic relations with one another. Others are rivals, or may despise one another to such an extent that they cannot stomach the sight of one another.
The most distinctive separation one can make among the relations between the forest's fey are between those living in the verdant groves in the forest's east versus those living in the more gloomy, tangled, and fetid marshes and swamps in the forest's west.
The verdant groves located in the Preborian Forest's centeral and eastern regions have a beautiful mystical and enchanting look to them. The presence of the Fey that inhabit them have slowly caused these groves to be suffused with the magic of these fey beings, making the groves reflect their magical and mystical nature. The flora in these groves are of the most verdant greens, with more mystical looking leaves and flowers of deep oranges, blues, and purples also being heavily featured. These groves have both a mix of mundane flora, alongside more mystical looking and sometimes magic infused flora typically only associated with the Feywild.
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The most dominant and influential type of fey in the Preborian forest's verdant groves, located in the forest's central to eastern portion, are the dryads. They are a form of all-female tree-spirits, each bound to a single tree that acts as both their home and life-force, providing them with all the nourishments they need to survive. A dryad is able to separate their body from their tree, though are only able to receive nourishment from it so long as the ground they stand on remains connected to the tree's root. The dryads in the Preborian forest are able to traverse almost the entire forest due to its trees forming a single interconnected root structure. A dryad who leaves the area connected to their tree's root structure quickly dies. A dryad whose tree gets cut down goes mad, thrashing and gnawing at anything and everything they come across, consuming its life force in an attempt to stave off their own death.
+making them into true natural splendors with blending both mundane flora with more mystical and magical flora usually only associated with the Feywild. These groves are colored in verdant greens, alongside a myriad of mystical oranges, blues, and purples.
+The dominant and influential type of fey in the Preborian forest's verdant groves, located in the forest's central to eastern regions, are the dryads. They are a form of all-female tree-spirits, each bound to a single tree that acts as both their home and life-force, providing them with all the nourishments they need to survive. A dryad is able to separate their body from their tree, though are only able to receive nourishment from it so long as the ground they stand on remains connected to the tree's root. The dryads in the Preborian forest are able to traverse almost the entire forest due to its trees forming a single interconnected root structure. A dryad who leaves the area connected to their tree's root structure quickly dies. A dryad whose tree gets cut down goes mad, thrashing and gnawing at anything and everything they come across, consuming its life force in an attempt to stave off their own death.
The dryads view themselves as guardians of the woodlands, and protect it fiercely. Intruders who they believe may harm their forest quickly find themselves assailed with their poison-dipped arrows and fey magic while they dart across the canopies. The dryads, having lost sisters in the past due to humanoids having cut down their trees, sees all humanoids as threats to their forests, and attack them on sight. They are the type of fey the Marcandrians are most familiar with, primarily because it is often they who drive off or kill those who try entering their woods.
The dryads are not very organized or structured, often cooperating and collaborating with each other, but with no overarching strategy across their kind.
Oldest and most respected is ____. Fey who live among the dryads, or near their groves, include __ (satyrs, pixies, sprites, …)