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Originally Posted by Puck I would also use a race of men who like soltakss' elves were driven here (through the gate) years ago (only a couple hundred) and had to learn to survive the dangers of the green. I was thinking of calling these men the Freelings, but that is just a placeholder. The Freelings would be the basic tree people of the upper green (kind of elf or ranger like).
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Originally Posted by Soltakks: I'd think that new settlers would be found on the ground, unless there was a good reason for them to be up in the trees. If you want people living up in the trees then fair enough, but they'd have to have a good reason to live there. Perhaps the ground is too marshy for them to live on and the rivers flood to often for even stilt houses to be effective. Perhaps they were driven to the trees by predators.
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This is again exactly what I had in mind. I hadn’t got to it on the wiki, but the root-world, the land under the trees, would almost be impassible. Boats would have a hard time traversing it because of the maze of huge roots, shallow muddy areas and fallen branches and leaves. Roots would not always be close enough to jump from one to the other. Certain channels may exist, but they would often get clogged up and sometimes lead nowhere. It would be very dark and sticky. Lots of poisonous and nasty creature live hear too: snakes, crocodiles, worms and whatever else could crall into your bed at night for warmth ( I thought that the Mamprusi and crocodile goblins would be adapted enough to live in these areas) . Humans would have to learn to live in the massive tree limbs or on the river or perish. I think this aspect of the Green is what makes it so different. Everything is in channels: the limbs, the roots, the rivers. To go off these paths would be possible, but dangerous.
Close to the mountains are the sky steps. These I thought would be more solid ground where people could go to earth. The really trees would be slightly sparser here as well. As the Green nears the coast I thought it would break into a morass of mangroves and salt marshes, still very hard to navigate through.
Since the Green is so big, I was thinking of only taking the northern section, my original map had it stretching to the unknown south. That section could easily be quite different and allow people to explore other geographical features. We may need more that two rivers to do this. Hopefully the map can easily be changed when the time comes.