@Afina Here's what I've thought up for the setting. Got any input?
The world has been consumed by the forest. Few know that there was even a world where one could leave the forest, and fewer still remember what that world was like. The forest in dark, merciless and perpetually hungry, consuming the foolish who do not know its ways. Pockets of humans survive in small communities, hiding from the beasts of the wild in great underground caves left behind by the ancients or in the few glades of relative safety found within. Of these humans, two specific groups have arisen in power, not before thought capable, the witches and the druids.
The druids, one with nature have learned the ways of the forest and seek to protect the world from further damage. Each druid has aligned themselves with a wild animal and can shift between the form of man or beast at will. There are 8 known druids, 1 for each of the following animals: deer, fox, wolf, moose, squirrel, owl, rabbit and bear. The druids sequester themselves away from the world, isolated from even each other so they can see that nature is properly attended to.
The witches were rediscovered when the forest took over. Rare, unaging individuals with the ability to alter the fabric of reality through the concoction of potions and brews, the witches have an agenda of their own, but nobody can be quite sure of what exactly theirs is. It is known that the witches travel through the woods on foot, and it is theorized that they have a single place in which they congregate, but such a place has been a tightly kept secret.
Legend tells of the three greatest sources of power in the forest, hidden from even the eyes of the witches. Great pools of condensed magic, each corresponding to a portion of a man, body, mind and soul. Tale goes that once a man was able to drink from all three of these pools and become a god among men who ruled for a millenia, and the druids and witches have a tiny portion of his blood in them, granting them their amazing powers. But as far as the common folk can tell, is just a tale. And, clever as they are, these pools have been dubbed the Three Great Soups.
The world has been consumed by the forest. Few know that there was even a world where one could leave the forest, and fewer still remember what that world was like. The forest in dark, merciless and perpetually hungry, consuming the foolish who do not know its ways. Pockets of humans survive in small communities, hiding from the beasts of the wild in great underground caves left behind by the ancients or in the few glades of relative safety found within. Of these humans, two specific groups have arisen in power, not before thought capable, the witches and the druids.
The druids, one with nature have learned the ways of the forest and seek to protect the world from further damage. Each druid has aligned themselves with a wild animal and can shift between the form of man or beast at will. There are 8 known druids, 1 for each of the following animals: deer, fox, wolf, moose, squirrel, owl, rabbit and bear. The druids sequester themselves away from the world, isolated from even each other so they can see that nature is properly attended to.
The witches were rediscovered when the forest took over. Rare, unaging individuals with the ability to alter the fabric of reality through the concoction of potions and brews, the witches have an agenda of their own, but nobody can be quite sure of what exactly theirs is. It is known that the witches travel through the woods on foot, and it is theorized that they have a single place in which they congregate, but such a place has been a tightly kept secret.
Legend tells of the three greatest sources of power in the forest, hidden from even the eyes of the witches. Great pools of condensed magic, each corresponding to a portion of a man, body, mind and soul. Tale goes that once a man was able to drink from all three of these pools and become a god among men who ruled for a millenia, and the druids and witches have a tiny portion of his blood in them, granting them their amazing powers. But as far as the common folk can tell, is just a tale. And, clever as they are, these pools have been dubbed the Three Great Soups.