Caliban's End

 

The Stone Forest

The Stone Forest is the Myr's largest forest, so vast that it is it is difficult to fully comprehend its size.  It runs from Cessair's south-eastern border all the way to Brigantia on the eastern coast of Tethra.  Its northern boundary lies flat against the steep escarpments that mark the Ganesa Plateau.  It runs all the way across Tethra's lowlands until it meets the rolling green pastures that hug Tethra's southern coastline to the east of Corra.

 

Whilst called a forest, no tree can be found across the sprawling area the Stone Forest occupies.  It is filled with tall plinths of granite that are actually the nests of stonemites.  It is believed that there are more stonemites in Tethra than there are grains of sand in Kheperan deserts.  The stonemite is not the only inhabitant of the Stone Forest.  Strange birds known as durnodaws sweep down from the Ganesa Plateau to feed on the stonemites.  Flocks of swiggu can sometimes be seen ungracefully making their ways through Tethran skies hoping to elude the blood-beaked ostra that prey upon them.  The most notorious creature dwelling in the Stone Forest is the carnopod, a vicious three-legged behemoth that is unstoppable when aroused.

 

A path called the Brigand Road runs through the northern reaches of the forest under the shadow of the plateau above.  Whilst this is the easiest route to take through the forest, it is not the safest.  Local thugs monitor the road and will think nothing of slitting the throat of any unwary traveller.  Most of these criminals stalk the area in the hope of acquiring scraps of metal which the Tethrans famously decorate their bodies with.

 

The floor of the forest is covered in sharp, flat shingles making it difficult for snorses to traverse.  It is an inhospitable environment that few Myrrans venture into.  Most people travelling from Brigantia to Cessair - a common route taken by visitors from the eastern continent - stick to the Ganesa Plateau where the great Colossi wander across the red rock they have called home for countless millennia.