Shifting Jungle

Laying astride the Scar River, along the western coast of The Broken Midlands, the Shifting Jungle is so named because many of the plants within the jungle refuse to quietly stay in one place. Whether gigantic trees that stride ponderously through the misty jungle, smaller mindless predators, or several sentient species that resemble (but aren't actuallty) plants, the area has a reputation for danger and nothing quite being what it seems. 

Populations

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  The most prominent population of the Shifting Jungle are the Treants that ponderously (and thunderously) stride in loping migration paths around the northern half of the jungle. These gigantic walking trees largely ignore anything literally below their notice: they view nothing in the jungle as a threat and seem to mostly pass their time by causing mundane trees to move into unfathomable patterns. Their lack of care for smaller creatures is evident in the fact that the species of Goblin native to the jungle lives in villages that hang from the branches and bodies of the treants, riding through the forest as if on gigantic unguidable ships.
• The above-mentioned Jungle Goblins which live in villages hanging from the migratory treants. They have a wide-ranging culture based around hunting, gathering, and trading, staying hidden from predators, and keeping a form of stewardship over the northern jungle. They carefully watch the western border (they occasionally will trade with the dwarfs but are wary of humans seeking to disturb the jungle through logging as this tends to anger the treants) and warily observe the river out of fear for the much more aggressively-minded walking plants they have observed across the water.
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  Living mostly hidden in dark underground places, away from the eyes of larger creatures, Fungifolk are rarely seen except when fleeing danger or occasionally foraging for expired plant matter. Appearing quite like large mobile mushrooms, the fungifolk cultivate caverns full of glowing plants and other fungus, communicating with each other through the flow of spores carried upon the air. They are almost entirely harmless to most creatures and content to maintain their communities underground in the jungle.
• A caste of Elves migrated to the jungle after the Dragonscourge, feeling that they would be protected by dusty haze that lay over the southern lands after the meteor strike. Over the centuries, however, the effects of the magical residue imbuing the region began to show as the elves mutated. They gradually took on the shape of some of the plant life around them, becoming wild creatures with barely-elven bodies sprouting leaves, tendrils, and root-like growths. These elves now have a bare semblance of society, barely able to communicate with each other, and will attack and attempt to kill any outsider entering their domains within the Jungle. These plant-elves mostly lay claim to the southern half of the jungle; the waters of thee river seem to be anathema to them.

Landmarks

Ruins from pre-Dragonscourge settlements dot the Jungle. Pre-scourge lumber harvest had significantly cut the jungle back from the north before the meteor made the land uninhabitable and allowed it to grow back; those willing to brave the extremely dangerous land could find artifacts of that near-mythical time.

Threats

Those living in or exploring the forest have a number of dangers to watch out for, aside from gaining the enmity of the treants or goblins (and the elves of the southern forest are hostile to everybody).

• The treants are not the only walking plants in the jungle. Occasionally the latent magic will cause the animation of smaller trees , bushes, or even just tangled masses of fallen branches. Such creatures are infused with a predatory and aggressive will, though they generally exist as solitary creatures, rarely coexisting even with their own kind.
• Though not native to the jungle, a common threat is a hive of Coleovids , large insects that primarily exist in burrows around the northern edge of the jungle, dug into the side of The Great Plateau and the neighboring mountains. Small hunting parties will occasionally travel into the forest to gather prey; the Fungifolk are a frequent target of these raids but they will also attack Goblins and pose a threat to larger beings as well - though in the case of adventurers they're more likely to desire your weapons than your meat.

Type

Forest, Jungle (Tropical)