Baifa Monü Zhuan
Name: Itaku Forest
Planet: Mountains of Shri-Ta
Nexus Alignment: Other
Nexus Effects: Heightened Paranoia and perception with a sense of unease and cold spot. Visual and Auditory hallucinations, to force sensitives visual wraiths in the form of the Don-Gai.
Size: Region
Development Threads:
The Yovshin's Blade
Description:
Heaven's Shrine: The ancient shrine and alter constructed under the lagoon of the western region just off the main river going through the forest. A large chamber with a golden alter that resonates with the force energies trapping within it the souls of those wo were killed on it. Twisted and turned with time into dangerous and violent wraiths that roam the forest and are kept within the its borders through the markers that resonate with the crystals.
Northern Region: One of the few areas where the canopy is less dense and the fog feels not as thick. Sometimes light is able to stream through onto the floor of the forest and reveal areas of it casting golden light all around the forest floor and attracting creatures.
Southern Region: Near the large mountain and palace, the southern regions fo the forest are mostly in the mountains shadows and littered with caves as well as formations. The thick roots of the trees. Caves litter the area closer to the mountains and the markers are built into small sections fo the mountain with alcoves.
Western Region: A small fork of the river leads to this mainly open section. Where thick canopy and fog persist across the forest are not as present but the waters of a small pond/lake are there. Not very deep but a place few others come to given the danger's of going through the forest to get to it.
Eastern Region: Largely unexplored now with less paths that went through it. The region of forest covers a large section and also the largest within the forest. It is thick with most of the ground in shadows that obscure the vines. The higher mountains show signs of old ruins and other projects that were from attempts to build over the years but they are mostly abandoned.
Image Source: Yakushima Island Google Search
Points of Interest: (Submissions coming soon)
Origins/History: Not much is officially known about what happened in the forest or what made it so dangers but the first initial reports of sightings came near one hundred years after a darkside cult arrived within the forest itself. Before them there had been the normal people in the woods claiming spirits. Notably near areas where crystals had formed that resonated with the force. Strange feelings and this attracted other species and people.
One group was worshipers of the darkside and they stole children away from the village within the forest. Eventually the villagers figured it out and tracked them down dispensing justice for their lost children the only way they knew how. They burned the cultists within the temples they had made and left it all buried in the forest. Their memories and their thoughts going to the children who were lost and killed but they needed to move on.
Nearly a century past with the temples ruins being said to have dangerous and dark feelings around it. Force beings saying that the area had been corrupted with something dark and tainted. As things started to happen afterwards the descendants of the villagers started being attacked by things in the woods. Their elders working with the ancient jedi in the twilight sepulcher to create the barrier markers that would contain the forest creatures.
A second set was made around the village to protect it from what was in the forest and coming from the temple. It was not as impressive but the ancient markers could and would hopefully withstand the test of time containing the spirits so that the villagers could look to find a way they could put their loved ones to rest. As the village continued to live and then was attacked it brought about the abandonment of the surrounding area.
The valley, mountains and area all over proved a danger for others and eventually the people left the area. Leaving it abandoned where just a number of people knew. Real estate was cheap and development projects were there to try and cultivate the region once again but they were within the forest for its beauty and area. They kept a number of things there which led to dangerous outcomes resulting in them being abandoned.
Eventually the jedi came to the world and they worked to rebuild the area outside the forest. The village, the palace, the different things that they had all set up. The new jedi didn't know what was going on within the forest but they prepared different expeditions. Inspired by the works that were going on around the area another company worked to build an orphanage within the forest. The results of the endeavor was not good.
The orphanage lost contact with the others around it, something happening on the comlink that was there but there was a problem and a jedi team nearby that could go and investigate. What they found was what might have been at the others and what had happened to them in the different areas of the forest itself. THe Don-Gai came after the people there in time when one of them was brought in and force sensitive.
What happened:
Intent: To expand the lore and add something unique and special to the world.
Links:
Planet: Mountains of Shri-Ta
Nexus Alignment: Other
Nexus Effects: Heightened Paranoia and perception with a sense of unease and cold spot. Visual and Auditory hallucinations, to force sensitives visual wraiths in the form of the Don-Gai.
Size: Region
- Region - Isolated to the forest and tied to the ancient shrine in the center of it that has become overgrown and lost to most maps. The Wraiths of the forest still cling to life at the alter and are bound within the forest itself leaving it with a thick fog.
Development Threads:
The Yovshin's Blade
Description:
Heaven's Shrine: The ancient shrine and alter constructed under the lagoon of the western region just off the main river going through the forest. A large chamber with a golden alter that resonates with the force energies trapping within it the souls of those wo were killed on it. Twisted and turned with time into dangerous and violent wraiths that roam the forest and are kept within the its borders through the markers that resonate with the crystals.
Northern Region: One of the few areas where the canopy is less dense and the fog feels not as thick. Sometimes light is able to stream through onto the floor of the forest and reveal areas of it casting golden light all around the forest floor and attracting creatures.
Southern Region: Near the large mountain and palace, the southern regions fo the forest are mostly in the mountains shadows and littered with caves as well as formations. The thick roots of the trees. Caves litter the area closer to the mountains and the markers are built into small sections fo the mountain with alcoves.
Western Region: A small fork of the river leads to this mainly open section. Where thick canopy and fog persist across the forest are not as present but the waters of a small pond/lake are there. Not very deep but a place few others come to given the danger's of going through the forest to get to it.
Eastern Region: Largely unexplored now with less paths that went through it. The region of forest covers a large section and also the largest within the forest. It is thick with most of the ground in shadows that obscure the vines. The higher mountains show signs of old ruins and other projects that were from attempts to build over the years but they are mostly abandoned.
Image Source: Yakushima Island Google Search
Points of Interest: (Submissions coming soon)
- The Village: The only village built within the forest itself, older then most of the others and showing signs that it has been falling apart.
- The Orphanage: An attempt by another group to set up on the planet, they found an area in the forest and built the orphanage for children whose parents had been lost in war. It shows signs of something happening.
- The Temple: The ancient temple where the alter of the darkside is kept, the small expedition has been from the palace overseeing the forest to the alter on accident but there is not much information about it.
- The Resort: An abandoned construction project someone tried to bring to the forest for a rich peoples getaway. Horrors came to the resort and it has been sitting there silent.
- The Amusement Park: Another attemtp at construction efforts, a small amusement park that was meant to be on the edge of the forest but talks of it being haunted at first brought attention and then there were many deaths.
- The Caves: Around the forest there are dozens of small out fo the way caves that have been used in the past but now sit abandoned and long forgotten.
Origins/History: Not much is officially known about what happened in the forest or what made it so dangers but the first initial reports of sightings came near one hundred years after a darkside cult arrived within the forest itself. Before them there had been the normal people in the woods claiming spirits. Notably near areas where crystals had formed that resonated with the force. Strange feelings and this attracted other species and people.
One group was worshipers of the darkside and they stole children away from the village within the forest. Eventually the villagers figured it out and tracked them down dispensing justice for their lost children the only way they knew how. They burned the cultists within the temples they had made and left it all buried in the forest. Their memories and their thoughts going to the children who were lost and killed but they needed to move on.
Nearly a century past with the temples ruins being said to have dangerous and dark feelings around it. Force beings saying that the area had been corrupted with something dark and tainted. As things started to happen afterwards the descendants of the villagers started being attacked by things in the woods. Their elders working with the ancient jedi in the twilight sepulcher to create the barrier markers that would contain the forest creatures.
A second set was made around the village to protect it from what was in the forest and coming from the temple. It was not as impressive but the ancient markers could and would hopefully withstand the test of time containing the spirits so that the villagers could look to find a way they could put their loved ones to rest. As the village continued to live and then was attacked it brought about the abandonment of the surrounding area.
The valley, mountains and area all over proved a danger for others and eventually the people left the area. Leaving it abandoned where just a number of people knew. Real estate was cheap and development projects were there to try and cultivate the region once again but they were within the forest for its beauty and area. They kept a number of things there which led to dangerous outcomes resulting in them being abandoned.
Eventually the jedi came to the world and they worked to rebuild the area outside the forest. The village, the palace, the different things that they had all set up. The new jedi didn't know what was going on within the forest but they prepared different expeditions. Inspired by the works that were going on around the area another company worked to build an orphanage within the forest. The results of the endeavor was not good.
The orphanage lost contact with the others around it, something happening on the comlink that was there but there was a problem and a jedi team nearby that could go and investigate. What they found was what might have been at the others and what had happened to them in the different areas of the forest itself. THe Don-Gai came after the people there in time when one of them was brought in and force sensitive.
What happened:
The darkside cult used the children as innocent blood in arcane alchemical rituals to work and try to summon other darksiders to the planet. As they failed the alter itself was used to bind the souls of their victims so that it would have power and allow them to survive after death. Which they did, they became wraiths able to remain conscious and haunt the forest as well as the world until they realized something else had survived.
The souls of their vicitims they had bound to the alter to make it strong and ccontain them were alive as well and they fed off of the cultists. Getting revenge on them in death where they couldn't in life. Over time their frustration drove them to anger and madness as they started taking vengeance out on others they found. other force users who came into the forest and in their own village.
The souls of their vicitims they had bound to the alter to make it strong and ccontain them were alive as well and they fed off of the cultists. Getting revenge on them in death where they couldn't in life. Over time their frustration drove them to anger and madness as they started taking vengeance out on others they found. other force users who came into the forest and in their own village.
Intent: To expand the lore and add something unique and special to the world.
Links:
