Confluence:The Nightwood (A creative thing)
On the edges of the furthest farm fields of Abbeywall, past Old Blackbury’s and across the river, there lies a forest that the townsfolk called the Nightwood. It is a twisting maze of barrens, thickets, and tall eternally barren trees, and lit only by bioluminescent fungi, bathing the forest in bright greens, blues, and purples. The Nightwood is a forest known to have been tainted by insidious magic well before the Confluence occurred, and has only worsened since. Legends of talking trees, mischievous fairies, and fierce goblin tribes of old gave way to more recent and terrifying tales. Newer stories of adventurers and merchants traversing the Nightwood describe shadow people who steal your voice, walking poisonous mushrooms, rotting undead trees stuffed with corpses, enormous toads that snapped up hapless hirelings in a single bite, and living masses of brambles and thickets that drag you beneath the earth to a fate unknown. Several expeditions to explore the former village of Sca...