Shademurk Forest

The Shademurk Forest, previously known as Shademurk Bog while suffering the corruption of Saundor, is a thick and colorful woodland growing in the Feywild and encircled by the rapid water flow of the Gilded Run.

Description
The Shademurk forest is dense and shaded woodland, where most of the trees have blue and purple leaves, wide and triangular in shape.

The Shademurk Bog had thick trunks with sagging canopies like weeping willows. Black, sticky, tar-like ichor coated the vegetation and seeped into the ground, impeding foot travel. Dryads, protectors of forests and trees, turned "foul and shadowed". Other took their best effort to leave the bog.

History
The unnamed forest soon-to-be-named Shademurk, was oncebeautiful. Powered by "the fountain heart" of the Gilded Run that bisected the entire region with series of rivers. However, centuries before the Divergence, an Archfey spurned by his beloved, grew spiteful, filling himself with wrath, rage, and vengeful thoughts that turned his heart black. His thoughts began to take material form, spilling as a black ichor into the fen around him and corrupting the land. The only barrier for spread of the corruption are the raging currents of the Gilded Run, the rapids. After this grim transformation, the place became known as the Shademurk.

After Vex fatally shot Saundor, the black ichor that seeped out of the plants of the Shademurk Bog ceased flowing and started hardening like amber. Using Commune with Nature, Keyleth confirmed that the surrounding plants of the bog began to relax upon Saundor's demise.

When Vox Machina returned to the Feywild about a year later in Exandrian time, they found that the corruption had entirely receded. The area looked like a normal forest by Feywild standards. The Shademurk Forest seemed to have some level of intelligence and recognized the people who freed it from Saundor's influence. As Vox Machina were making camp for the night, one of the trees bent its branches in a certain way to make sleeping more comfortable.