Forests

The area is one of the most thickly-wooded nations in the world. In the northern parts, pine forests cover the mountain slopes and the hillsides. The further south you get, the more hardwoods -- oak especially -- you see; in the southernmost parts of the Dymrak Forest in the east, all you see are ancient oaks towering into the sky.
There are three great tracts of forests.
Farthest west, near the border, is a thick forest area variously called the Riverfork Woods and the Achelos Woods; these woods are largely unexplored, uninhabited by humans (except for the lucky soldiers garrisoned at Riverfork Keep), and very ominous.
In the central region is the Radlebb Wood, a forest inhabited by the majority of Callarii elves. It's a little less dark and ominous than the western tract...but still has its dangerous wild animals.
In the southeast is the greatest of the Duchy's woods, the Dymrak Forest. It stretches all the way from the central rivers to the border of the Empire. It's a mighty hardwood forest, and home to numerous nonhuman tribes -- mostly violent nonhumans, plus the Vyalia elves.
Most of the remainder of the land consists of flatland areas with patches of clear terrain (suitable for pasturage and tillage) and patches of forest; it is in these areas that humans settle most comfortably.

Type

Forest