Mourning woods

The mourning woods are located in the northern part of the forgotten realms, east to the sword coast, this danger filled forest is also the home of the Acemus people, this forest has very rough and unequal terrain going down from the mountainy terrain to the plains, the grand trees of the forest mixed with small and bushy trees is one of the defining aspects of this forest.

Geography

The region has rough mountainous and snowy terrain whith giant red trees sprouting from the snowy soil, the peak is located at 2345 meters with what is commonly refered as "the elder tree" a giant semi metalical tree with an impressive 346 meters up to its name, there are also numerous hot springs and geysers located throughout the forest, finally there is the great cascade coming right from the elder tree down to the plains in one giant flow.

Ecosystem

Contrary to first looks this region is extremly dangerous due to well everything, an ecosystem???? forget about that, here its consume or be consumed, almost everything wants to consume every other thing, even the herbivores wont say no to some meat if its not too hard to get, the food chain ressembles more of circle with lines conecting the various species.

Ecosystem Cycles

In summer most of the fauna and flora have accumulated enough food to just chill all summer and graze in the sunlight until autumn, when autumn comes however every single living thing enters a frenzy to gather as much nutrients as possible for the winter, sacrificing self preservation for food is very common in autumn and spring, when the winter arrives the plants start to "burrow" themselves deep in the soil and consume their stocked nutrients until spring, for the fauna most of it doesent hibernate and must still gather a little bit of food outside of their lair, this is of course the perfect moments for the unknowable horrors that are the Mourning woods apex predators to come out of their slumber and hunt some scatered prey, when spring finally comes every single one of these starved buggers enters (again) a frenzy to gather food, the winter predators go back to sleep and the cycle continues.

Climate

The Mourning woods is a very very cold place, snowstorms hapen on a quite frequent basis, except in summer, and the forest is coverd with snow except a few days of summer, when the winter comes its blizzards for the whole season until the start of spring when it calms to snowing every day until summer.

Alternative Name(s)

The terror woods

Type

Forest, Boreal (Coniferous)

Location under

Faerûn

Included Organizations

• Acemus

Ruling/Owning Rank

Supreme general

Owning Organization

Acemus