Post by Bunhash on Oct 30, 2010 15:24:57 GMT -8
The Black Forest, Territory of the Mornaquenta
From every place where the edge of the land meets its neighbors inward, the Black Forest is as if cursed into a state of pitch blackness, that like a moonless, starless night or in the state of ever-twilight. There is no land like it anywhere else in Terrastra. It's said the black lands are altogether evil and is so dark and accursed, even the gods are locked out.
The land was enchanted years back, before most of the books of men were written and by a powerful mage of the Mornaquenta people; those who rule these lands. By hate of the outer world, this powerful mage, their king, set upon the land an eternal enchantment that caused the sky to be blotched out by dark. From the outside, the forest seems like any other. A traveler could walk the borders of the Black Forest, unknowingly to its devilish dark until he passed the line of the territory. With even a single step inward, the traveler would be instantly engulfed in a darkness so black he could not see his hands an inch from his nose. And this blackness would extend into the land for fifty miles without a reprieve.
And that would not be all the traveler would meet. Within the borders of the Black Forest there are numerous beasts, evil creatures who hunt on those who would come into the lands. Hounds and creatures of all kinds bred especially for those who venture into the lands uninvited. The land itself is uneven and full of ravines and rocks and densely packed with Belora Trees, a tree that grows only in the darkness of the Black Forest.
But the land does not stay in total darkness. After the fifty miles of black, the sky lightens enough to see just slightly. The light creeps in more and more as one moves closer to the middle of the territory until nearly another fifty miles later, the trees begin to thin and the land grows even. At the center of the Forest is the main city and home of all Mornaquenta. This part of the forest is lit enough to seem like twilight.
Because the Black Forest is a closed territory, the Mornaquenta have guard towers all over the forest, hidden, and manned by warriors.
1. Morsida, Kingdom of the Black Forest, the center of the territory. The city is filled with stone homes and open lands and at its center is the enormous castle owner by the Mornaquenta King. The stones of the castle are entirely black and glitter like black water in the twilight hue of the land.
2. Black Forest, the densely forested land full of evil creatures of all kinds. This part of the land is entirely blackened by the enchantment of the Mornaquenta king. The forest starts at the edge of the territory on each side and goes inward for one hundred miles on every side (but only remains pitch black for the first fifty miles).
3. Ithil River, runs from north to south and is the western area of the land. It is freshwater and even is home to a few fish varieties.
4. Aeidal Creek, is a fresh water creek on the eastern side of the territory. Runs from north to south.
Lookout towers, are scatter across the land and stop almost all who don't belong from entering the lands.