The Greenwood is the largest single expanse of forestland. It covers a large proportion of the lands west of Mercinae. It is, as ancient lore would have it, a province of the God of Life, a bitter irony, for within the obscurity of its thickly laden boughs abide many creatures that seek to pervert its creator's ideals. It is a dense forest that stretches from the Uruk Road (which lies in the west of the continent), right through to the north where it meets the mountains, and then towards the east where it meets the boundaries of the ancient Chetwood forest and Mercinae's city walls. Waged within this tenebrous province are recurrent battles between various factions, not least between the Goblins who intend to overrun it and the guild of Rangers, good human-folk who live for the forest and its stability.
Not all that lives within the Greenwood, you must remember, aims to do battle. Other legends of this vast wooded mass include the presence of a benevolent mannish folk in the far north; the tale of the Stone Cross; the hidden retreat of the great seer Orestes; and the fabled lost library of Alessandria. Dangerous, beautiful and intriguing, the Greenwood epitomises the territory of a true adventurer.
