In ye olden days, the Lost Woods were home to The Fair Folk, the Wicked Witch and the Solitary Sorceress, the Savage Wolf, The Marvelous Deer (which might lead you astray), the Unicorn, and the occasional tree out to kill you. In any setting, it may be home to a Tree Top Town or Hidden Elf Village.

If you are forced to enter, it's best to lower your axe or else risk the attention of the Ents.īesides your usual forest creatures, all manner of strange things lurk in the shadows.

Especially if there's people living in them.) Nature has run wild, and man is not welcome here. (Whatever size they are, it's probably not a good idea to eat them. The trees themselves seem to leer and scowl and even normally tiny mushrooms are huge and imposing. Their canopies cover the sky, leaving only shafts of sunlight streaming between the branches.

They are a vast old-growth forest where the trees reach into the heavens.