Bluebell Forest
Named for the lavender, white, pink, and of course blue flowers that fill the meadows and line the streams of the forest, the Bluebell is home to wide stretches of open oak forest, interlaced with meadows of long grass and stands of cottonwood. These last floras make spring in the bluebell seem like a warm winter, the white pollen from the cottonwoods blanketing everything in sight. The open understory, filled with ferns, makes it a natural home to large herbivores. Herds of zebra and elephants often spend their early summers amongst the trees, dining on the greenery before spending the drier months on the Galkin Plain. They return in the fall to strip trees of chestnuts and apples, competing with armies of squirrels and chipmunks that work the higher branches of the trees for the same bounty. With these larger animals natural come larger predators and several prides of lions and packs of hyenas make their homes amongst the trees, the latter bold enough to require the farms around Penstrin - at least those west of the Syntix, to require tall stakewalls to protect livestock and farmers alike. Once upon a time it is said that even greater predators - wolves the size of small horses and bears with the heads of owls - made these forests home. The past centuries of Human habitation, however, seem to have driven off such monstrosities and they now live on only in tales told by the flicker of campfire light.
Bluebell Forest, near the Pendril River
Type
Forest, Temperate (Seasonal)
Location under
Owning Organization