Phostwood

The Phostwood is a forest located in the Duchy of Tenh north of the Yol River. It gets its name from the phost trees that only grow here in all of the Flanaess.

Overview

The Phostwood is a mid-sized forest almost wholly within the land of Tenh, although that nation has never claimed sovereignty over the woodland. Its borders are roughly given by the Artonsamay and Yol Rivers on the south, east and west, and by the remains of the Gleaming Spire keeps in the north, built to guard Tenh from the denizens of the wood. South across the Yol is the Nutherwood, which many travelers assume is just part of the Phostwood; however, they are quite different – no phost trees grow in the Nutherwood. The Phostwood does extend approximately two miles across the Artonsamay, but the forest is thin there.
The Phostwood is distinguishable from other woods by the plethora of Phost Trees, and the dull glow generated by the rotting wood on the forest floor. The disconcerting, eerie nighttime light of the phosphorescent dead wood here is said to attract spectral undead, will-o’-the-wisps, and other deadly but diverse monsters into the deepest forest recesses, but few bother to explore them.

Type

Forest, Temperate (Seasonal)