Whispering Woods

The Whispering Woods are the largest forest complex on Gernon, and covers thousands of square miles in the northeast of the continent.
==Geography and Nature==
The Woods are a forest beyond imagining. It is bounded by the Antax Mountains in the west, Lake Kumota in the southwest, the lands only known on maps by inscriptions of "Here Be Ice Giants" in the far north, extends over a hundred miles south of Lake Valros, and the Great Plains in the east. It is primarily a coniferous forest, especially in the subarctic lands north of Lake Valros, but deciduous forest can be found further south and west.
==History==
The Whispering Woods are one of the longest continually habited regions of civilizations in Gernon, though older nomadic populations did exist in the warmer climates of Gernon for much longer. The forest has been the home to a mainly elven population for over a millenium, with records dating the first settlement to approximately 1300 b.s.r. As is expected of them, the elvish society in the Woods has changed little in the thousand years, staying very conservative and living simply. Much of the society lives around or near Lake Valros, but villages or lone elves can be found at any point in the woods. In 390 b.s.r., a major exodus of elves who believed in much more liberal philosophies than the majority of their brethren left the woods and eventually settled in the Silver Tree Forest. The current civilization is referred as the North Elves to distinguish them from the South Elves in the Silver Tree Forest. The area was brought under control of the Western and Eastern Scientarian Unions in the years following the Scientarian Revolution, but as a more autonomous holding of the Empire. Its massive scale and elvish population saved it from direct warfare.
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