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Jeon tossed up another nut from a little sack and caught it in his mouth as Penumbra and their party finished off the last of the bandits. That had been an exciting little encounter, and though he was a touch disappointed in the elves for going down that path, well, they were dead now. So who cared.

Not him certainly. What he cared about was what would happen next on the [champion]’s little adventure. So much so that he decided to scout ahead and spoil himself a bit on what was coming next, only to come up disappointed.

“What? Did no one work on this bit yet? Yeesh” the god complained from atop a mountain top as he looked down at the vast expanse of basically nothing set between the woods Penumbra was currently traversing and the next bit of interesting terrain they'd reach: a distant desert.

“Tisk tisk, well we can't have that now can we” he said, before cracking his knuckles and saying, “Well then, guess it falls to me to liven things up a bit” before pausing and thinking about what he’d want to do, stood atop one leg while the toe beans of the other tap tap tapped against the bare mountain stone.

“Hmmm, well, savana? Nah. swamps? Nah not that either hmmm” he pondered before saying to himself “well, maybe the elves need a bit more space and then they’ll stop doing a banditry? But bleh, just making more of the same forest? So lame”

“Well. There’s more way to grow trees and liven up the place soooo” the god concluded, before reaching into his nut bag and then tossing a torrent of seeds out of it that lashed out and then rained down on the soil as of yet untouched by godly hands.

Trees burst from it, surrounding the few denizens of the land with a forest in an instant, the canopy above smothering out the sun and leaving them in the dark. For a moment. Then, suddenly, there was light as a sea of glowing motes swept into the woods, following in the wake of the Prince of the Woods as he pranced through it at breakneck speed. Then he hit the center, where the moats coalesced and then burst out, suffusing the woods with their glow.

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“There we go, now that’s a nice aesthetic contrast” Jeon nodded to himself before thinking for a moment “and so I thiiiiiink I’ll just call these the Lightwoods. Simple enough. Now then, let’s spice things up a bit”

He pointed some fingers and made some base level creatures, your (water) bugs and birds, your Tonnikala. Simple enough. Toss in a few Nagna, a shoal of Gedhe’iwak and a Huwu’idang or two to keep the place growing nicely. The soil here was pretty nutrient poor, what with being next to a desert and all, and so the plants would need to feed. Thus in went some venus flytraps and pitcher plants.

Then he started adding some native forest-kin to the region. He pointed at a few of his new carnivorous plants, and caused them to uproot themselves and take to the sky as gulping [url=https://i.imgur.com/jDPzvU4.png]Toni-flora[/url]. He pointed at another larger one and it ripped itself out of the ground, the hulking [url=https://i.imgur.com/l2hOTn3.jpg]Dionera Rex[/url] roaring loudly before it began trudging through the forest, seeking prey. Smaller beasts of that ilk followed, shaped like other primordial beasts from petal feathered raptors to stegosaurus with leafy plates running across their backs and ankylosaurus with walnut-like armor casings.

As Jeon watched one of these herbivores then approached a towering seedpod looking plant that was the last of Jeon’s additions and took a precursory chomp, only for its glowing eyes to dim softly as poisons set in. Then vines lashed up from the earth, grappling the beast. As it struggled to escape it was then set upon by a pack of needle-toothed ape like Nagna, who ripped and tore at the sedated creature even as it managed to crush a few of their number till it fell, and its life juices fell around the plant.

The plant that the Nagna too had tried to drink the nectar of for sustenance. Now instead they ate a meager meal of part of their kill, and then began tearing the rest apart, strewing its parts around to their new master, the Cortex Flower, which had enthralled their minds to its will.  

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The herbivore dealt with, the plant split its manila thralls into two packs, one to stay and remain in ambush around, the others to roam out and hunt for more prey or thralls for their master.

“Perfect” Jeon declared as the biggest threat in the forest began to claim its domain. The biggest threat, and the biggest prize, for if harvested correctly, the mind controlling plant’s parts and poisons could have all sorts of uses that could open the mind to new power, induce euphoric highs or seal it shut and leave a victim complaint. 

“Now that, should make for an interesting second leg of their journey, I think” the god declared, before skipping off to see how the [champion] handled this next leg of her journey.

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Jeon has been stalking, I mean watching, Penumbra as the Umbra and her little party set out on their, to be, continent spanning adventure, when he realizes that a bit of that adventure will be going through the nowhere’s vill of the untouched land sat between the south continents central mountains and its mighty desert.

So he makes another forest over there, fills it with (water) bugs and birds, Tonnikkala, plant dinosaurs, some flying plant fish, and a type of plant called a Cortex Flower which can enthrall the minds of creatures that drink its nectar, bending them to its will and using them as defenders and hunters for fertilizer.
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Start 5mp,5ap
3 mp to unlock the Forests Aspect: More than just trees, a forest is a diverse and complex ecosystem, that, while yes, defined by its largest of residents, includes so much more than that. From vines growing on the trees, to caterpillars munchkin on the leaves and [s]birds[/s] tonikalla munching on the caterpillars, to the mushrooms munching on the rotting wood below, all are part of these great landscape defining realms.  

Forests are also more than just an ecosystem, they are ancient heartlands of terrestrial life, and hallmarks and symbols of nature itself, ones oh so often stood in opposition and contrast to the civilizations who fell them for timber and /or clear them for farmland. To those of the plains, forests are deep dark mysterious things, hiding dangers and terrors, things best gnawed at the edges of or briefly penetrated and plundered for treasure such as furs, fruits or fungus rather than a place any sane being would live.

Of course, people and forests are not incompatible, and to those who would live in harmony with the trees, or even encourage them to flourish in new and wonderful ways, forests can be a sanctuary from the harsh world beyond, and a wonder deserving of protection. From [druids] to [treeshapers] and [forest guardians], mortals who live in tandem with the forests can enter a symbiotic relationship that allows both forest and friends to prosper. 

2 ap (discount from 4 with forests) to make the lightwoods in the south west of the continent, between the mountains and the desert.

1 ap (discounted from 2) to make the Cortex Plant, a large growth which can 
End 2mp,1ap
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