Lor’Sha’Une

The Lor’Sha’Une is the great forest that fills the northwest of the Land of Song and is the ancestral home of the Celeste. Its trees are enormous — as tall as mountains — and into and among them the Celeste grew an ancient kingdom, living in towns, villages, and cities for thousands of years beneath a canopy called the Canopy Sky, through which the sun reaches them.

The name

In the Celeste tongue, lor means “great,” sha “home tree,” and the -'une suffix marks the plural: the Lor’Sha’Une is “the great home trees.” The giant trees themselves are the sha’ene, “the immortal trees.” Sha was the first word spoken by Niðrerir.

A deadly wilderness

Beyond the Celeste holds, the Lor’Sha’Une is a vast, dangerous, monster- infested place — nearly unsurvivable for anyone who cannot fly. By the Dungeon Master’s reckoning an adventurer would be safer spitting in a red dragon’s eye than taking a stroll through it. The extended campaign is likely to lead into it.

The forest and the exiles

After the war the forest became unreachable to the exiles of the Schism at Saudient, who can see it from the gray peaks of Saudient but cannot cross the battlefields between, and whom the Celeste who remained would not receive. There is a fear among the Celeste that those cracked and blood-stained by the war would foul the forest if they returned.