Wizardsbane Forest
The home of the Magic Eating Beetles of Tempricida. Named Wizardsbane Forest due to the many Wizards and others who rely upon magic who lost their lives attempting to go through the forest.
Even for those with no inate magic, the forest is teaming with dangerous monsters and beasts, making traversal incredibly rare and deadly.
There is supposedly a large, eerily calm lake somewhere within, thought to house unique aquatic life just as there are some unique animals on the land of the forest.
Based on old records and maps of Tempricida, there used to be a town named Isvyco located in the space this forest now occupies, records suggest it was home to a cult of Necromancers which collapsed due to the migration of Magic Eating Beetles into the area (Though people who have braved the forest have found some evidence of a surviving sealed crypt, along with several, still wandering undead despite the beetles devouring most magic inside the forest.)
Isvyco was recorded as the birthplace of the infamous Necromancer Azrail Bobson.
Some historians theorise that, rather than a natural disaster, the migration of the beetles into the area was a purposeful act of Ecological Damage, brought by a rivalling cult, the Heralds of Death.
Climate
A mild, slightly warmer climate, rain is as frequent here as it is for most of Southern Tempricida.
Fauna & Flora
The Main Fauna associated with the Wizardbane Forest is the Magic Eating Beetles, a species that burrows into a spellcaster's skin to devour their magic at the source, causing immense pain to the host and eventually eating them from the inside if left unhealed. The only known way to remove the beetles is to draw them back out using spells nearby the afflicted party.
However, non-magical creatures, bears, Grungs, and other beasts also live in the Wizardbane forest, hunting and killing those who the beetles have weakened. Owlbears in particular are strangely common, in spite of being theorised to have originally been beasts with magical origins.
History
Long ago, the Wizardbane Forest held a town named Isvyco, Isvyco was a town worshipping The God Of Necromancy.
It's people believed that through Undeath, their loved ones would be saved from an unpleasant afterlife and brought back to continue living amongst their family and friends.
What few cultural practices and beliefs are still known of the people of Isvyco are mostly taken from the surviving writings of one Sir Azrail Bobson and his Husband Omann, a Wizard and Ranger previously exiled from Isvyco for some unknown reason.
Type
Forest
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