[Maplore] Silverwoods

[AntiSociety 709]

 

The Silverwoods

The Island of Purity

Current Day

The Island of Silverwoods is nestled within the furthest South-East of Azuras. Secluded and surrounded by water, it is mainly untampered with by external forces. Leaving a unique and rare ecosystem to thrive unimpeded. One great peaking mountain range runs through the island, reaching great heights with rock and marble pure and white, accented with gray segments throughout. This range divides the forests into three, leaving one of the only options to either cross the mountains, or go around. The forests themselves are teeming with life, similarly colored a pure white with other trees being multiple shades of gray. This gray extends to the leaf color, though a cyan blue is more commonly found.

What occupies these lands you'll find are animals colored white, a certain albinism which seems to affect every being on the island itself. Most predatory creatures are lacking here, allowing a sprawling, peaceful, and mainly herbivorous species to exist. Pegasus exist to the peaks of the mountain and on heights which overlook the rest of the forests. The forests seem to teem with life and lights during the night, something innately calls to it to come about. Plant life illuminates the forest floor during these hours, vines and other unique flowers seem mainly responsible. So too are the animals most active at these times, though one would assume most creatures of this type to be the opposite. Somewhere on the island there is said to be a cave which inhabits a special kind of crystal, they offer dim light within the darkness of the ground and allow those who dwell within to see.

Past Tales

Not much is easily known of the region before it is now. However, evidence suggests that the island was not always as pure and white, colored in a unique way as it is now. There are skeletal remains and fossilized structures of predators which once inhabited the land, clearly different from the system of animals it perpetuates now. There is little to no proof that there was any successful or unsuccessful civilization which inhabited the region. The only thing left are odd stone carved remnants which stand in different parts of the island. Within the gem cave on the island, a certain mass of crystal is present and discolored from the typical makeup of the materials, it seemingly blocks a path which leads further within the system of caves.