Verdant Hollow

Verdant Hollow

The Verdant Hollow is a place where the concept of a forest reaches its absolute apex, then transcends it. It is not a woodland, but a single, ancient, planetary-scale organism wearing the guise of trees, moss, and stone. Here, time doesn't just slow—it loops. The air thrums with a deep, resonant hum, the sound of living wood growing, shifting, and dreaming.

Beneath the cathedral-like canopy of impossibly large trees lies a world within a world: the Rootbound Labyrinth. This is not a system of caves, but the forest's vascular network—a vast, living underworld of caverns glowing with phosphorescent flora, sustained by the slow, rhythmic pulse of an underground river. The very walls are woven from petrified roots and responsive, sentient mycelium.

The creatures here are not inhabitants; they are extensions. From the swift, reactive Entlings of the forest floor, to the powerful, conscious Forest Guardians patrolling the high canopies and cavern entrances, to the legendary Treebeards—living monuments slumbering by the subterranean river—each is a limb, an instinct, or a thought of the Hollow itself.

And deeper still, in the geocentric heart where root, stone, and water become one, legends whisper of the Terrea Protectoris. It is said to be the first seed, the primordial will that shaped this living edifice, sleeping in a chamber of crystallized sap and bedrock. To disturb the Hollow is to risk awakening not just its guardians, but the very conscience of the earth. 

Creatures

• Entling

• Forest Guardian

• Treebeard

Notable loot