Ash Forest

Once a forest so thick and dense that little could survive but the towering trees and fast growing shrubs, nature has recently punished it for its arrogant refusal to share space. Not three decades have withered since a fire tore through the place, gorging itself off dry leaves and low-lying bushes. Such massive destruction left piles upon piles of ash; most of which has been blown far from the place. Enough remains, however, that it still coats the forest floor, sparsely in some places, but in the depths of the forest the ash is occasionally found up to a foot deep. Most of the trees in this forest are young saplings, although charred and blackened giants are not too uncommon.