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 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.
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>>The groves verdant and enchanted nature are a result of its inhabitants, whose fey essence and magic infused the area in which they live.
+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.
+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.
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+each bound to a tree, though the interconnectivity of the primeval forest's roots allow them to traverse the entire forest. Cannot travel past the forest's roots. big disadvantage to skirmishes along forest edge.
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they see themselves as guardians of the woodlands, and hunt down any who they believe would do it harm – which to them mean any and all humanoids from outside the forest.
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>>The groves verdant and enchanted nature are a result of its inhabitants, whose fey essence and magic infused the area in which they live.
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"The Forbidden Forest" is a large forest located the north-central part of Sillavengo. While travelling through the forest is the shortest path between between Rosella and Sillavengo, many opt to take the paths around the mountains rather than going through the forest.
The forest is the domain of the Sisters of the Forest. The Sisters of the Forest are a group of dryads. They are fiercly protective of their forest, driving off or killing anyone who they believe threathens their home. They rarely enter direct confrontation, instead attacking from afar using poisoned arrows while using the forest itself to remain hidden. The Sisters of the Forest are lead by the Green Enchantress (who's a move powerful version of a Sister of the Forest).
@@ -22,7 +38,7 @@ dateCreated: 2023-12-07T20:28:21.641ZPeople who seek the Sisters of the Forest's aid do so by bringing a large amount of tribute, oftenmost rare seeds, herbs, or flowers (in a condition where they can be planted) with them just past a few hundred feets into the forest. The tribute is presented, and the petitioner waits for one of the Sisters to hopefully reveal herself. This tribute is solely for the chance of getting an audience with a Sister of the Forest, meaning payment for the actual service, should they agree to provice it, comes in addition. One may not leave with the tribute, regardless of whether or not they got a response.
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People who seek to travel through the forest are adviced to do so only if necessary. They are also often adviced to offer tribute to the Sisters of the Forest at the forest's border. Tribute often takes the form of rare flowers, herbs, or seeds, that should be in a state where they can be planted within the forest itself. Providing a tribute to the Sisters does by no means guarantee ones safety, yet the gesture may improve one's chances of being let through. Who is an who isn't allowed to travel through the forest is entirely based on the individual. A merchant may have traveled the route for 30 years without ever having a confrontation with the Sisters, while another may killed the first time he/she enters the forest. Druids, forest gnomes, wood elves, and people who's traveled through numerous times before without an incident normally have higher chances of being left alone. However, the Sisters of the Forest are unforgiving by nature, and a single misstep, regardless of circumstances, may have them forever bar ones entry to the forest. (While being forgiven is possible, it is extremely difficult). People traveling through the forest rarely know whether or not they are being watched unless they are attacked.
+People who seek to travel through the forest are advised to do so only if necessary. They are also often adviced to offer tribute to the Sisters of the Forest at the forest's border. Tribute often takes the form of rare flowers, herbs, or seeds, that should be in a state where they can be planted within the forest itself. Providing a tribute to the Sisters does by no means guarantee ones safety, yet the gesture may improve one's chances of being let through. Who is an who isn't allowed to travel through the forest is entirely based on the individual. A merchant may have traveled the route for 30 years without ever having a confrontation with the Sisters, while another may killed the first time he/she enters the forest. Druids, forest gnomes, wood elves, and people who's traveled through numerous times before without an incident normally have higher chances of being left alone. However, the Sisters of the Forest are unforgiving by nature, and a single misstep, regardless of circumstances, may have them forever bar ones entry to the forest. (While being forgiven is possible, it is extremely difficult). People traveling through the forest rarely know whether or not they are being watched unless they are attacked.