Scarlet Wood
The Scarlet Wood is known, as its name implies, for the massive red-leaved trees that populate this sprawling forest at the base of the Bridleborne Mountains. These trees, arctobetula rubrifolia, are known for their knots, which look like human eyes and produce a rich, red, hallucinogenic sap. The sap that comes from these trees is commonly collected and used to make outlawed liquors, resins, and powders known as scarlet. The Scarlet Wood is the source of the most durable lumber in the Fairelands, and the companies who run logging operations in this region are required by law to collect and dispose of any sap they collect in the process. Redrunners offer bribes, steal, or reclaim this sap from the logging companies to use for scarlet production. The closer to the mountainside you get, the denser the forest becomes, and those who brave the woods at night tell tales of feeling watched and stalked by the creatures who live within.
Points of Interest
Timberway Camp: Eager to get away from the drowding of other logging operations, Timberway sent a small team to begin work clearcutting a new section of the Scarlet Wood. The group never returned. Today, when loggers hear the sounds of sawing trees at night, they will gather by the fire and tell ghost stories about the Timberway team, speared and murdered by the very trees they sought to fell.
Whilewill: The small settlement of a group of Fairens who live in the woods and shun the recent invention of electricity. Though the town itself is not new, a near-fanatical hatred of electrical development has changed the way they interface with the outside world. Citizens of Whilewill are fiercely protective of their land and some believe they're responsible for the destruction of logging equipment.
Trust's Clearing: There is a large section in the middle of the forest where nothing but poisonous red flowers grow. This species of flower, known locally as the Timely Iris, is found nowhere else in Hale, and is famously difficult to cultivate by even the most practiced floriculturist. Many folk practitioners in the area harvest the flowers for local remedies, and Candela Obscura has a current project to test the bloom's ability to soak bleed.
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