Forest of Ash

The air is thick, hot but dry. All around there are flakes floating in the air lost on the slow wind. Land is cracked and chard like a deserts rock. Yet, there are roots burrowing into the ground stubbornly clinging to the dead land. The trees there are mostly an ash color, bark seeming to peal away and add to the ash in the air though they never seemed to full disappear. A few trees scattered here and there are chard black, veins of heat pulsing still with the calamity that had occurred here. It is desolate, and eerily quiet.

Geography

Located at the base of a mountain the land used to be a lush forest. Now though it is demolished, the mountain having become a volcano through magical means. It became a flash fire where the trees were instantly burned, becoming ash trees. No longer living but never disappearing either. The creeks and lake that had been there was now filled with boiling water where lava is constantly trying the churn at the bottom.

Close to the base of the mountain in a small clearing where there was a giant tree at least 8 feet thick and un-measruably tall. Now though it is hollow, were the area habitable a human could probably live in it. The ground around the tree is thick with ash, causing foot falls to create billows of dusty ash to form with each step.

Fauna & Flora

There are no living flora in the area, it is all dead and just petrified.
For animals there are ash spiders that live in the areas where the ashes have piled up and skitter about attacking anything that comes into the area. They aren't easy to kill, even when hit and turned to ash they reassemble close by to continue attacking. Their biggest weakness is extreme anything either fire or cold where it holds them in place or incinerates them.

Alternative Name(s)

Land of Ash, Adriel's Forest, Adriel's Sorrow

Type

Forest