Gloomed Jungles

The Gloomed Jungles, often called the Gloomed Jungles of Aeshanadoor, are a jungle in southeastern Marquet.

Description
The Gloomed Jungles are separated from the Hellcatch Valley and Taloned Highlands (both are territories of the Stratos Throne) by the Kaal Mountains. They are also surrounded by a massive gorge. As seen from above, the dense jungle canopy is mostly white and gray, with some patches of red, blue, and purple. Rivers and swamps run through the jungle, and scattered mountain peaks break through the trees. Parts of the jungle, notably the swampy areas, are blanketed in heavy mist. While the jungle is indeed gloomy and chilly in the mist, it is also full of thriving wildlife.

The Chalkstep Road leads from Yios through the jungle to the Hellcatch Valley. Along the road, there is an abandoned military outpost with stone watchtowers that had been ruined during an assault and overgrown towards its base.

Flora and fauna
Twilight tigers, sometimes reaching twenty feet in length, inhabit the jungles. They are muscular and slightly damp tigers with dark black-gray in color.

When Chetney smelled the jungle, in addition to the usual earthy scents, there was a strong smell of something fungal, and Bells Hells noticed that many of the trees have bleached-looking white bark with patches of darker reddish-brown bark on top. Mushrooms are painted in reds and oranges and can be poisonous, when consumed by a humanoid creature.

The portion of the fauna around Zha'Vrollo is unique to this area of the Gloomed Jungles and difficult to grow elsewhere. The fauna is softer, the trees truncks deep maroon trunks, vaguely reminding Fearne of the Feywild. Some of fungi growing here reached six feet in hight, jet-black or purple in coloration.

Notable locations

 * Barinak, the hidden village of the Gorgynei.
 * Zha'Vrollo, a temple to Sahyaadon, Keeper of the Savage Heart.

Society
The Gorgynei, a society of lycanthropes who manage their curse, live in the small village of Barinak within the Gloomed Jungles.

Campaign 3: Bells Hells
Bells Hells approached the Gloomed Jungles by skyship on their way to Yios when a heavy rainstorm hit, leading Xandis to bring the Silver Sun low near the canopy. Fearne noticed a broken, abandoned stone watchtower, likely a relic of the Apex War, and the party decided to investigate and to go into the jungles to contact the Gorgynei. As instructed to by Ajit Dayal, Chetney, and later the entire party, howled for the Gorgynei. They were met by them, and after a brief conversation, taken via an indirect route to Barinak. On the next day after a breakfast, the party and a group of Gorgynei (Annaline, Uther, and Fresceo) set off toward Zha'Vrollo for Chetney's trial. During their journey, Fearne ate brightly colored, hallucinogenic mushroom, poisoning her for the rest of the day, and encountered a family of twilight tigers, intimidated away by the lycanthropes transforming in their hybrid forms.