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=Heloraen Vosilea (The Water Forest)=

Better known as the Water Forest, Heloraen Vosilea is truly one of the great wonders of the world.

At a latitude where one would expect to find scrub pine or wasteland there is instead a jungle. One that stretches for hundreds of miles, a vast interconnected grove of mangroves and other plants, filled with bubbling hot springs, mud pits and smoldering volcanoes. Somehow the ecosystem traps and recycles every erg of energy, creating an almost obscene riot of growth and foliage.

The Water Forest would be the number one top tourist attraction in the world, except that to enter it is to surrender yourself to madness and death. The Water Forest is filled with toxins, poisons, hallucinogens, noxious fumes bubbling up from the earth, deadly fauna and even-more deadly flora. It has persisted for thousands of years, with every species locked in a tight evolutionary race for supremacy. In this literally hot-house environment the inhabitants have developed talents unseen anywhere else in the natural world. Only the cautious and careful can survive where the water can be filled with LSD, which many plants use to ward off insects.

Inhabitants of Heloraen Vosilea include insanity, death, dryadic tree-spirits with mescaline blood, giant water striders, other insect predators too horrible to mention, snake-like creatures called nagas that are actually ambulatory fungi who prey via seduction, crazed adventurers from lost expeditions, shrieking eels, dumped Vanawil experiments in creating the perfect predator and just about every other nightmare you've had.

Naturally such a horrible place contains vast riches. Magicians, alchemists, gourmands, scientists, drug-dealers, and a host of others will pay vast sums to whoever will brave the Water Forest and bring back useful specimens. Vanawil's northern cities have a cottage industry hosting the daring adventurers who brave this jungle. While many never return, those that do are well rewarded for their bravery, ensuring a steady supply of customers buying 10' poles and 50' of rope.

Scientists (still a novelty in the Unified Setting) have studied Heloraen Vosilea for years now and have a problem. According to their math, there is no way there is enough energy to support the ecosystem. Their conclusion is that their is a vast magical power-source somewhere at the center of the jungle. Whether it is a lost draconian city, a creation of the gods or something else, the Water Forest must be tapping its power. Volcanic ash settling over Zirnitraog seem to confirm the theory as it has a tendency to mutate animals into killing machines. Several expeditions have been sent to test this theory and gain the riches if it turns out to be true. None have returned.