Avani's Garden
Weeping Woods
How do you handle the thought of living in the shadow of your creator's corpse?
By understanding she is as living as the forests she feeds.
What remains of the Titan Avani is a forest landscape flowing with her Blood, creating an unique habitat home to plantlife not seen elsewhere in Silva. Known as Avani's Garden, it is the resting place for one of the first gods and home to the Elvir.
Forest of the Fallen
Found around the northeastern side of the Silvian map, the forest extends several miles of vegetation scattered across several mountains, rivers and more. At its center lies the remains of Avani, referred to as the Mother Mountain Range by locals.
Only a few roads break through these luscious woods, as anywhere else the trees grow too thick for wagons to travel. Going off-road is an often dangerous act, as many try to find a way back only to end up deeper into the forest. Going above the tree tops is no help either, becoming a sea of leaves only distinguisable from high above by its rivers and mountains.
God-Given Life
Centuries of decomposition caused Titan's Blood to leak through every bit of soil across the land, making it contaminated beyond seperation. Avani's influence is so potent, it creates an ecosystem not seen elsewhere on Sichelan, home to almost alien plantlife with unique properties.
There are over a thousand unique species that call this place home, possibly more unknown by researchers. Evolved from the Titan's flesh, forming symbiotic relationships with the plants around them for protection, from bark-like camouflage to hide upon the trees to a poisonous bite caused by the fruits they eat, if not the reanimated life known as the Elvir themselves.
Fae-Touched Woods
If the Blood of a Titan was not enough, the garden is also home to many Fae who settled down amongst the woods. Seclusive places where their part of the Faelands leaks in, making the deeper regions of the forest only more dangerous to navigate without a guide.
With it comes also the presence of many Fae species, such as the Fairy hives that build their colonies here or numerous plants invasive to the territory. Fae plants also show up, often invasive and causing oddities in local wildlife, such as enhanced magic or greater sentience.
The local population tries to hinder the invasive growth where possible, but their trickery makes it difficult for anything to stick. The only advice is not to go off the beaten path.Enhanced Soil
Not only does the blood and flesh of Avani allow plants to mutate into something grand, the very soil has become potent with her essence. Anything planted within grows to great sizes, bearing rich fruits in the progress.
This makes it sought after as soil for crops, providing rich harvests even from a single plant. Most of the outskirts got converted into farmland for nearby settlements to use, providing a third of Silva's yearly harvests.
Expansion is difficult however, as an abundance of Fae activity, religious protections and even the very woods fighting back make it hard to expand further in. Instead, some people take dirt from the forests to use in personal gardens, if not sell it to collectors for a hefty price.
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