Session 54
Recap
- Defeated the creature in the well
- Received a reward for dealing with this
- Continued with your travel
- Arrived at Rosemount, noticed that the statues were broken
- Brief chat in the tavern and rested
Plot Points
- Waking up in Rosemount
- Reaching the Abnoba Forest - an hour or so by cart
- Necromancer + frogs
Abnoba Forest
As you follow the narrow, winding trail deeper into the Abnoba Forest, the canopy thickens overhead, blotting out much of the sun. The air grows cool and damp, laced with the scent of wet earth and distant flowers—but something underneath it carries rot, like fruit left too long in the shadows.
Eventually, your guide halts and gestures upward.
High above, nearly lost among the treetops, you catch glimpses of Leth’Taelar—a village suspended between ancient trees of impossible size. Bridges of braided silverleaf vine connect platforms and structures that spiral around colossal trunks. Homes shaped from living wood shimmer faintly with natural enchantment, their forms both elegant and organic. It's like the forest itself chose to grow a village here, long before any tools were ever raised.
But then you notice it—the southern edge of the village is different. The trees there sag and lean, their bark splitting open in blackened cracks. Leaves droop, twisted and veined with sickly crimson. What should be birdsong is instead silence, broken only by the occasional creak—like something breathing just out of sight.
As you're led across one of the rope bridges, a low fog coils through the lower boughs. Below, the forest floor churns with unnatural growths—fungus that pulses faintly, vines that twitch at the edges of your vision, and strange, skeletal creatures moving just beneath the underbrush.
Your guide’s voice is hushed. “The blight reached us two moons ago,” they say, not meeting your eyes. “We’ve held it here, barely. But it learns... and it waits.”
Welcome to Leth’Taelar—a village suspended above a forest turning against itself.
