Fairy Forest

**Fairy Forest** is a mythical forest located close to Magus Kingdom that is the ancestral home of the Forest Fairies.

## Characteristics

Fairy Forest follows the general structure and nature of the archetypal Enchanted Forest, as all the flora within the Fairy Forest has a corresponding humanoid sentient soul, an animo known as a Forest Fairy. As such, the forest is alive in more ways than one, not just in the typical sense of the term but also self-aware and functioning much like a human city but for fairies. The forest features tall trees and many forest flowers. The climate of the forest is that of a temperate deciduous type forest.

Fairy Forest features many brooks, streams, and even waterfalls. It also has many distinct zones. The Light Zone is the bright lighthearted part of the forest where children can play and where only small, peaceful animals exist. The sunlight streams through the sparse upper canopy and fairies here generally have a lighthearted nature. This region is found on the outskirts of the forest and is quite peaceful and often used for meditation.

Deeper into the forest is the Dark Zone, where scary large animals reside and where there is a more eerie vibe. Fairies in this zone are still civilized but generally more hostile to outsiders, and often dislike when outsiders journey into these parts. As such, they usually try to scare outsiders away by giving them eebie jeebies and even outright threatening them in some senses.

While Fairy Forest was initially located in Europe, over time parts of it have been transferred all over the world, causing many separate "Fairy Forests" to pop up all around the world. Each one is modeled generally after the original forest and features similar climate and flora and fauna, although adapted to that region of the world.

## History

### Part 1

Fairy Forest has been around for long stretches of time, but it rose to significance during the Magus Kingdom when it was often avoided by the men for fear of wild animals and bandits, which often used the forest as cover. It was often visited by Reimu who played in the Light Zone and often imagined the forest populated with fairies. This came to fruition in 1020 when, in Animogenesis, Reimu wished for the existence of fairies based on her childhood daydreams and her wish came to life.

Around this time, the kingdom began sending loggers to the forest to cut down the trees for more wood to supply the rapidly growing kingdom. However, little did the loggers know, but the forest soon came to be inhabited by the sentient components of the trees and flowers that lived there, the forest fairies. The loggers and fairies soon began fighting, requiring the intervention of the Ethyria Friends to resolve the conflict as part of their mission to mediate the animo crisis. Afterwards, the Fairy Forest was declared a Protected Zone by decree of the king as a sign of peace between the two kingdoms.

The forest was one of the many battle fronts during the Ethyria War. During the Pomufication crisis, the forest was burnt down by officers from the kingdom in revenge for the residents of the kingdom transforming into Pomus, thinking the fairies had betrayed humanity. The fairies were forced to flee the forest until the Ethyria Friends were able to put out the fire and save the forest. After defeating Pomu, the kingdom later apologized the the fairies for the damage.

### Without Fairies

For some time after the events of Part 1, the fairies continued to live in the forest, living secluded lives from humanity but occasionally interacting with them. Eventually, fairies left the Earth in a fairy exodus, and Fairy Forest was deserted. Parts of Fairy Forest were uprooted and planted around the world in subsequent centuries, even including the New World after it was discovered.

When the Veil was placed over humanity, the forest lived on in the collective unconscious of humanity and humanity's experience with the fairies and the forest provided the inspiration behind most of the famous and popular fairy tales. In other words, the enchanted forests in most fairy tales is actually based on Fairy Forest!

### Return to Fairy Forest

After the fairies were exiled from Heaven, they resettled back on Earth in their ancestral home, but found it split apart all across the world, and so settled all across the world. In order to remain one cohesive unit, fairies were early adapters of the internet technology and established Virtual Neverland, a virtual version of their old home in Heaven that would allow them to communicate with one another. While many fairies would continue to live in Fairy Forest at least part time, they took on human lives and often lived in human cities to be closer to their places of work.

In Story Reality, after the Veil is lifted, fairy society begins to reintegrate with human society. A lot of fairy organizations are created to work with humans and prevent deforestation across the planet to stop the destruction of Fairy Forest as well as all the other forests. In Stream Reality, fairies in their human forms and lives begin to accomplish similar tasks.