Digitos Mangroves

In zone betweeen forest and coast, this swampish area exists. Full of salt and hardy wood, the mangroves serve as a sieve between the mystery of the Forbidden Forest and the vast ocean areas of Levis. Tall red-brown trees bulk the main population with roots like fingers. Fig like plants spatter the landscape bringing frogs with small sharp teeth. Mosquitos and mud flies buzz the air and reeds make water travel long and slow.
Waves sweep from the ocean into this place, pushing between the roots to stir and churn the waters beneath in rhythmic lazy pulses. Life teems between the roots, while not as loud as the ecosystems of greater Levis, the swamp water breeds its own way of living.
Demon raiders love this place - both as a home base away from the prying eyes of the Foliad law, and the deep warm bubbling up from this moist place that reminds them of a wetter version of home. Floating islands have been created, their thick infernal runes like angry scars as they carry whole growing families through the swamp like atmosphere, while these islands move from bubbling mud spout to mud spout, to let the cold blooded demons bask in their subterrainian warmth.
The mangroves are also the end part of the Path of the broken way. and the Mangroves hold several smuggling spots for access to oceanus and the northern parts of Levis. Intricate patterns traced in circuit paint act as markers, allowing communication between enclaves of smugglers and neverdowells.
The midnight jetty exists as a stark reminder of human history in Levis, a long petrified thing that juts from the landscape, used by many but paid an ominous respect.
Glow-eyes caper it's surface, chittering and scattering should a captain make its way aboard. Kraken sleep in the deeper waters, mud and night hiding them from larger prey.

Ecosystem Cycles

The ecosystem of the mangroves is based on a cycle of flooding and drying, with the tide going right out for the whole of the 'dry' season of the mangroves and thick mossy like ground cover growing for this season. In this season worms that hide as eggs during the wet season hatch and burrow into the land to gorge themselves on the sea floor nutrients, becoming prey for long leg birds and ruddy salamanders.

Glow eyes are bioluminescent crustaceans lured to faint echoes of strange energies between realms. Their three thick claws act as defense, and their inset eyes swivel six times in dome shaped shells.

Type

Badlands

Inhabiting Species

• Trolls