Chillwood

The wood is densely packed with some areas of forest being so packed with trees that you can, with one hand placed on the trunk of a tree, reach to another, touch it, and walk for miles. Chillwood's namesake comes from its climate -- the tops of the trees are often dusted with snow, and from far above it looks much the same as the white wastes in the far north of Kolburra. On closer inspection, however, one will see the bustle of daily life under the snowy canopies of the Kolburran Fir trees. Here and there will lie a Firbolg stronghold -- a village surrounded by a natural palisade of evergreen trees with timber linking their trunks. Elsewhere, the Tabaxi have built tree-houses above the forest floor, linking tree top to tree top with natural wooden bridges and ropes. Looking even closer we can see the myriad of creatures that live out their simple lives, blissfully unaware of politics and strife. But just as the life of the forest can be concealed by its treetops, so can its dangers: pitfalls hidden beneath sheets of ice, snow leopards lurking beneath shallow snowdrifts, and a thousand other perils lurking, often, just inches beneath the snow that crests the ground.

The primary natural resource oft extracted from this massive forest is, of course, its wood. It is well known that the Fir trees of Chillwood, as thick and sturdy as they are (many will grow to thirty feet in height and are four feet thick!), make the best logs for building barricades, homesteads, and fortresses. It is often the wood of Chillwood that is extracted for magical petrification and reinforcement to strengthen the already unbreakable wood. Or at least, it was extracted by the Nurnen before the Krik'tha flood and by the Uškayans before the Fall. Now, save for a few brave (or stupid) logging groups in the far north of the Ghostlands, Kolburran Fir logs are not collected by anyone, and they have become somewhat of a rarity.