Sunthief Forest

The Sunthief forest is a former forest lordship centered around the Caly lordship. The forest is best described as a drop of green in orange, being surrounded by barren wastes in western Highgaroth.
There are several forests that compose the sunthief region, with forest lords serving as its rulers. The region is atop an aquifer that fuels the lordships, but water levels frequently lack, causing devastating fires across the lordships. Why the barren lands around the forests couldn't bear vegetation isn't clear, but most lordships wanted to expand their territories inward, to ensure their own water independance.
===== History of the Sunthief Forest =====
King Caly was a lord of the central forest lordships, and being surrounded by progressively desperate lordships, decided to expand its territory by force.
King Caly created a powerful Hamadree which caused a rapid expansion of oak forests in a matter of days, creating the modern day Caly lordships. The consequence of the Hamadree was that the undercanopy was covered in total darkness, due to the massive oaks shadowing the entire area.
The legend is that the event caused the neighbouring lords to threaten violence against Caly, who went into exile as a result. Caly's Hama was uprooted and transported by his retinue to an unknown destination, never to be seen again. This is false, in reality the Calydryads became the ruling class of the forests, conquering the other forests, and exiling all the other lordships out to die in the suffocating wastes.
===== Calydryads =====
Calydryads are a Floric Dryad faction that serve Caly Sunthief, a forest lord whose quest to return previously barren lands to green ended in tragic success and the creation of the Sunthief forest.
They are giant sized oak dryads due to the power of their respective Oak tree Hamas.
They are powerful fighters due to their constant fight for survival against kleptoplastids that inhabit the forests.
===== The Sunthief Forest Hamadree =====
The evapotranspiration from the massive trees increased the humidity and oxygen ratio of the forest, causing near constant thunderstorms and gigantism in the local wildlife in a few generations.
The sunthief forest is now a fascinating microcosm where all creatures are obligate kleptoplastids. Meaning the animals survive by vampirizing sources of photosynthesis from other plants (as the oaks leaf cover engulfs the entire area, soaking up all the sunlight). The forests today are larger, but the Kleptoplastids cannot leave the area, otherwise they suffocate.
===== Kleptoplastids of the Sunthief forest =====
Dande: Lion with a dandelion mane and a mature dandelion as its tail tuft.
Crocolog: Crocodile that pretends to be a log to get near its prey.
Onion spider: uses its tearful chemicals to capture prey.
Hippomelon:
Octoshroom: catches fliers with its appendages.
Cactipisson: Cactus hedgehog
Edge: Boar with leaf camouflage
Lettuce crab
Stem dragon
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