Forests on Aurea
Bloodwood
Remote and semi-legendary, Bloodwood lies on the northern peninsula of the Island of Drallia. Those who are even aware of its existence believe it to be infested by goblin and troll tribesmen scurrying in the strange, overgrown ruins of some long-forgotten empire.
Dracian Wood
Though settled and worked by the peoples of both Dracia and Drussa, the Dracian Wood still has its primeval depths, where the forest itself seems unwelcoming to human intrusion. Rumors persist of all sorts of creatures inhabiting these wilds, from wolves that can take the shape of men to giants living off the forest to sentient trees standing watch for some unknown cause. Local villagers, of course, are more than willing to embellish these stories to keep outsiders from stealing the natural resources they rely on.
Gadoran Wood
Once a great forest that spanned from Tanos Bay across the Zetian peninsula, centuries of harvesting by Imperial woodsmen reduced the Gadoran Wood to a few hundred square miles in the foothills of the southern Antasian Mountains. Though the forest regrew to its present size during the Dark Times, the recent resurgence of trade has lead men in the region to again harvest the forest, though the deforestation has yet to reach the levels experienced during the height of the Great Empire.
Glistening Weald
Ancient homeland of the elves on Aurea, the Glistening Weald is a deep, primeval forest cultivated and protected by its inhabitants. Humans and most half-elves from neighboring nations are unwelcome here and the elves are more than willing to enforce their claim to the forest with a flight of arrows. For reasons that have long confounded human sages, the forest glows with an eerie bluish light when the leaves and wet with morning dew, hence the name given it by humanity.
Greywood
Forming a formidable border between Murgosia and the nations of Dreluria and Anclea, the Greywood contains a small enclave of elves who have long been friendly to their human (and, as a result, half-elven) neighbors to the south. Though humans are still unwelcome in their sacred groves, the elves of Greywood tend to be much less xenophobic than their kin in the Glistening Weald. Recent deforestation by the Murgosh in the northern reaches of the forest, however, may change their attitude or, at the least, lead to an alliance between the elves of the Greywood and their neighbors to the south, who are no friends to the Murgosh.
Karian Wood
Once part of the Gadoran Wood, the Karian Wood has been reduced in size from centuries of deforestation by humans in the region. Though there are some remote villages cut off from the rest of the nation during the Dark Times, the human nation of Karony has resumed its harvesting of the wood to build a grand navy to protect shipping in the region from Camarian pirates.
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