Shorsai Forest

A remnant of the oldest forests in all of Akados, this primeval woodland once belonged to the Great Akadonian Forest in ancient times. A dense canopy of tightly-clustered deciduous trees keeps the forest immersed in twilight throughout the daytime hours while plunging the forest into pitch darkness when night falls. The tangle of protruding tree limbs, branches, and undergrowth covering the forest floor greatly impede travel through the woodland. Once, long ago, the ancestors of the elves, newly arrived in the world, lived in this area. While there may be remains in the deep forest of the elven domain, today the forest is given over entirely to evil humanoids and patches of forest haunted by dark things that even frighten the orcs and goblins.
Throughout the forest, various humanoid tribes, including bands of orcs and gnolls, vie for supremacy over their small fiefdoms. Recently, however, envoys from Acregor arrived in the forest seeking to bring the tribes under the banner of Aranost.
A small, 50-foot-wide waterway meanders through the Shorsai Forest from the Dragon Hills. It is never a swift stream, and it breaks into many small distributaries before finally reaching the shores of the Gulf of Akados in a boggy area of forest.

Type

Forest