Abyssal Forest

Danger: Very High

On the floor of Shatterock Caldera lies a massive forest, The Abyssal Forest. The trees of this ominous place are more massive than normal and very dense. The reason for this is that the Lydronite in the area was also deposited underground was well as the sky. Quantities of Lydronite are absorbed by the through the tree’s roots over time from the Lydronite deposits underground. The Lydronite concentrates the innate healing magic of Felarya, causing the trees to grow much faster and bigger than normal. Parts of the forest that extend up the caldera cliffs and around the caldera itself also grow larger than normal, although not to the extent that the trees in the caldera floor do, as the amount of Lydronite in the trees and ground rapidly decreases further away from the main deposits in the caldera floor by the point where the Abyssal forest has merged with the southern parts Driddler Forest the trees are ‘normal’ Felaryan size.. When the trees die, a trace amount of Lydronite is dispersed into the air. This airborne Lydronite is very sparse and only found in any real quantity in the caldera floor. As the name might imply, the creatures that populate the Abyssal forest are “Abyssal” in size. That is, they are huge variants of normally much smaller creatures. It is thought (but not for certain) that the reason for this is that these creatures inhale the airborne Lydronite and like the trees in the forest around them are caused to grow much larger by its effect. Some of these creatures have escaped the confines of the caldera via a dangerous series of tunnels and caves dug over time by tunnelling abyssal creatures. These escapees then move into the Driddler forest, where they do battle with the driddlers that live there. This is in part is what has influenced the Driddlers to become so aggressive. As stated before, a series of caves and tunnels lead up from the caldera floor to the land above. These caves are very large, being dug for the most part by Abyssal creatures. These caves are very unstable; anyone looking to venture down into caldera or up to the surrounding lands through them would face many falling rocks, tunnel collapses and pitfalls. A lot of the caves also contain plants from the forest and many other plants found only in these caves (although it is thought by some that you may find similar plants in Evernight Forest as, the tunnels and Evernight have similar conditions).