Floe Wood
The southern foothills of the Gologian Range empty to the flourishing Floe Lake. This lake trickles out and feeds the surrounding basin, culminating to the eastern swamp and, most notably, the Floe Wood.
The wood is fed by these mountain glacier waters. The rejuvenating water empowers the soil for tree growth. The lake drains into the roots of the trees and empowers them. The trees here grow healthily and verdant. Their bark is hard as iron, giving rise to the other name "Ironbark Forest." The trees provide a covering canopy over the floor so that sunlight filters through the leaf-laden branches. The air is surprisingly warm, held in like a greenhouse due to the large leaves. This causes the plant life to flourish.
Surrounding the trunks of the trees and in some spaces between the ferns and gentle shrubs abound. They grow like skirts around the trees, drinking from the same water the trees do, but not stealing from its supply. In these bushes dwell plentiful birds, happily chirping or throbbing their songs that swing gracefully between the tree trunks. Dark colored flowers thrive in these patches of green among the orange and brown fallen leaves. Their stubborn stems are difficult to cut and resist trampling. Hives of bees, hanging on the lower branches of the trees, buzz merrily, busy at work. The fungus that cleans up the dead branches flowers beautifully in yellow and azure, sometimes red and violet.
Most animals that reside here peacefully hop or lope along, eating what they need and relaxing in the forest. Some evil creatures do patrol, and the further to the lake one gets, the more menacing it becomes. Some of the creatures one can find are giant spiders, trolls and hill giants, bugbears, goblins and orcs, and so on. While the picture just painted of the forest is peaceable, since the supposed death of Manaron it has been anything but. Shortly after his death was announced, the Order of the Gauntlet went through to the swamp of the east. A Hunter of the Raven named Farondar dispatched giant spiders that plagued the western shore of Floe Lake.
Floe Lake
The most prominent feature of the lake is the vast amounts of pumice stones that feature on the northern shore. The northern shore and the slopes it touches are remnants from an ancient lava floe, hence the name Floe Lake. The lake is the deepest in Evoria, though not as consistently deep as Lake Tambux. Its deepest point is 1,100 feet, a dizzyingly deep depth that was only explored once by a aquamage.
Alternative Name(s)
Ironbark Forest
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