Gwyrdd Mawr
The Gwyrdd Mawr (big green) has many names and descriptions based on all the cultures and people that experience it. The outsiders call it a forest, the densely packed trees that block out the light so the shades of green get darker and darker until they’re black. A forest in these terms is not something to be explored, it’s a dark dangerous place full of wild animals and people that harness the elements to live uncivilised lives.
To those who aren’t outsiders is a woodland, a beautiful place covered with trees and shrubs that guide you and sing you songs of nature and earth.
In actuality both of these people are describing the same place, is can both be a dark and dangerous place and a light wonderous experience. The trees themselves don’t change, they will always be standing tall reaching for the light to soak it all up in hopes to grow taller curling and weaving around all the others that are stretching up for the same hopes. Whilst most trees are of all the same family there are patches when they stop and let the giant oak trees grow, knowing that should they start reaching for their sunlight they would lose the fight. Not everyone walks around looking into the sky and the underside of the treetops, those who look down will find a hive of activity in the shrubs and bushes that are littering the floor. These unlike the trees are a mishmash of all different types of plants some with beautiful flowers, tantalising smells or sharp thorns and stingers to warn you away. Should you look further to the floor there are the animals and bugs, evidence of them is everywhere from the hum of the bees and flying insects to the prints and homes of the rabbits and deer.
To walk into the big green means that you are embarking on a journey that many have started but often stopped early. The settlements rest on the border of the woodland as the travellers who embarked on the journey decided to stay there to prepare until they didn’t feel a need to travel through it. To walk from the widest point through to the other side it’s a 3-4-day journey assuming you stop for only food and rest and keep up the standard walking pace on all the different terrains and inclines.
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