The Shade Forest

As you approach the forest your realise that what you thought were trees are in fact giant mushrooms. The air smells of rot as you approach, and the grass around the edges of the forest is dry and blackening, with small mushroom heads nosing through the dead earth beneath. Even from the outskirts of the forest, the air is thick and you can see spores dancing in the few beams of light which penetrate this dark, fungal forest...

The Shade Forest is a dark mushroom forest which lies north of Bellinger's Landing. Stackwatch Fort is surrounded on three sides by the forest, and can just be made out high on the cliff to the north.
The forest is populated with magically infused fungus that has mutated both the flora (mushrooms) and the fauna (creatues of the forest) within its borders.

Fauna & Flora

First visitors to the forest will be distracted by the giant mushrooms, which throw up clouds of spores when they are knocked into. However, they'll soon notice that many of the animals look familiar, yet somehow mutated by fungal growths. Crows, rats and other creatures all burdened with these repulsive protruberances scurry out of sight as soon as the light falls on them.