Falseheart Wilds

The **Falseheart Wilds** was a forest near Zhitovar, and is the birthplace of the new Aur forest.

## Appears in

Major canon:

*The Ice Plague: Book 3 - The Ice Plague*

## Description

Davix said that the Falseheart Wilds was a place 'where worlds have nearly perished before. [A forest] fraught with unfurled foxglove magics. . . . [It] ate history whole, opening [its maw] in massive ways, annihilating, ending all. Then [it] continued. Forests and plains. Cold country. A very cold country.'

Gwyn heard it's a 'very eldritch forest'. Lalik said it 'is cursed and blessed'. Gwyn noted that the energy in the Falseheart Wilds was strong when last he was near it, and there were 'rumours that a Mage had taken ownership of it, and [he] didn’t want to incur. Mages do not suffer incursions the way other fae do.’

By the time of the battle with Olphix, it was a 'blackened wasteland' where nothing grew. Olphix's camp included a 'strange domed tent in the middle of all that emptiness.' Earthquakes were continuous. Part of the area was a 'void. A place where nothing lived.' The area stank and the soil was very black. 'There were no trees left, even the rocks had vanished'.

After Olphix and Davix died, Mosk Manytrees and Julvia Dubna Vajat combined their powers with the magic Mosk had taken from Olphix and Davix, and used their connection to the Aur and the Dubna to create a new Aur forest. Rain began to fall, 'the ground gained a greener smell, blades of grass trembling upwards, saplings pushing up from the earth as far as the eye could see, as an energy enfolded him gently and lovingly, the world around them rippling into a life beyond the life of any forest Eran had ever walked through before.' The forest continued to change as time passed, resembling the Aur forest of old.

## Residents

* Eran Iliakambar
* Lalik (original and secondary residence)
* Mosk Manytrees

Former

* Julvia Dubna Vajat
* Olphix (deceased)== Trivia ==

* When Mosk Manytrees spoke with Davix in Zhitovar, Davix noted that Olphix always said that the Falseheart Wilds 'would be an apt place to end the world.’
* It's Lalik's birthplace.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 3 - The Ice Plague.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 17 March 2022. https://archiveofourown.org/works/26266345/chapters/94345423. Chapter 28: Family.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 3 - The Ice Plague.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 3 August 2022. https://archiveofourown.org/works/26266345/chapters/102149304. Chapter 39: Impossible Things.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 3 - The Ice Plague.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 7 July 2022. https://archiveofourown.org/works/26266345/chapters/100527858. Chapter 36: The Light Fades.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 3 - The Ice Plague.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 1 August 2022. https://archiveofourown.org/works/26266345/chapters/102025632. Chapter 38: Olphix, Alone.
5. ↑ not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 3 - The Ice Plague.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 5 August 2022. https://archiveofourown.org/works/26266345/chapters/102269367. Chapter 40: A New Season.