Where the woods are at their thickest, and the trees are their oldest, you are outside of the realm of men. Kodai no Mori, the Forest of the Ancients, is a sacred grove within the heart of the primeval wildwood, where the trees are so old that they are encased in moss and lichen, and bow to deformities, their trunks unable to support them.
Some of these ancients are so vast in girth it would take thirty men with their arms linked to encircle them, and each of the trees is believed to possess a personality of its own, its thoughts capable of worming their way into the minds of those who enter the boundaries of their grove. Though it is said these woods are haunted, if there are ghosts, they are not the ghosts of people. Instead, elemental spirits, conjured from the ache of the forests themselves, remember all that has been lost, every tree felled or fallen to rot and ruin.