Maela Bog and it's mysteries (May-La Bog)

Maela bog is an area east of Snow Lake where the lake overflowed into a low area full of dead trees and stumps. Cranberry Creek flows into the bog from the north and at one point in time, they are looked to be dry. Near the center of the circular wetlands, sat the Beaver holy site where Sallah Silkas or Sephora Silkas depending on who's telling the story, most just call it the Hanto Holy Site. On the banks of Cranberry creek on the outskirts of the bog sits the Silkas Hanto Monastery. The path from the monastery to Hanto was said to be in the exact steps Sallah Silkas and Aiwei Stormbringer as they awakened the local creatures from their inner slumber so they could be self-aware. All quaked the fear in the presence of the great and terrible Aiwei, an elven looking creature who could change form at will and glowed with an inner light. But Salleh held alight the Rose Scepter and told of the covenant between the godlike Aiwei and the animals and small creatures of the planet of Mohn.
The Holy site is a good 5 km from the Monastery but is better approached via boat, though it was said in the day of the awakening, the bog didn't exist. Legend said when Aiwei's creatures swayed away from his teachings and took to greed and murder, did the area become submerged. As the people have found their way back, the holy site is now partially visible in the water. Hanto Holy Site is essentially an ancient crumble of large boulder with a hemlock tree growing out of what was the center of it. Nobody knows how a tree can split its way through granite, but the boulder is destroyed and the tree remains six meters across and 30 meters in the air.
Maela bog itself is a marshland filled with birds and insect and teeming with sentient creatures who prefer their older more instinctual existence. The Silkas sect takes care of them as well as any other more educated species.
Frogs, beavers, otters, muskrat, moose, as well as many other animals, inhabit the bog and area around Snow Lake. all live in a harmony with each other.
Around the holy area of the swamp, the air has a different feel. The dead and twisting logs found predominantly everywhere else are curiously absent the closer you reach Hanto. The air is still, the birds reverent and silent to the graces of what the site endows on many spirits. Near the center is where the magic happens. Clouds of butterflies, dragonflies, bees and other flying insects surround the holy tree, named Anathaes. The tree rises up from the bog in two massive 5 meter trunks and remnants of the rock formation it grew out of. The Silkas have a name, a secret name for these giant monolithic soap bar shaped granite blocks, the locals just call them boulders. The Silkas name for them is Zyan'te a curious word of unknown origin.

Type

Bodden