Super Secret Stuff about the Crying Woods

• The forest was sentient but it was not evil. In fact for many decades the drow lived in the forest along with the lizard folk. Then the forest began to reach out to attack the sentient species within its borders. As the lizard folk and drow investigated the truth of the Karkasan was kept from them. A solution was found by the drow enchanting crystals that would keep the forest at bay. An alliance was established based on this trade. The drow crafted these crystals that adorned many lizard folk and surrounded their cities, and the lizard folk supplied them with food and goods taken from the forest. This alliance lasted for many years as both drow and lizard folk empires flourished.

• The lizard folk turned on the Drow and seemed to be working with the forest and attacked the drow. A war ensued that lasted several years. The drow were defeated and had to return to the mountains.

• The Wyvaran Karkasan was obsessed with experimenting on reptilian races in an effort to build powerful servant races. Other wyvaran disapproved of his work after a few gruesome experiments got loose. Vowing to continue his work Karkasan ignored the command of the Wyvaran council. Those in power were at an impasse. They could not bear to let him continue his work but he had not committed an offense that would be punishable by death. Coming to an agreement that he was unsafe they decided to banish him. Finding that the very forest they lived had been imbued with power from a distant age, they used their magic to bind the evil Karkasan in the land beneath this forest that would be his keeper for all time.

• The Crying Woods as we know it today was birthed in that dark ritual. The pain of having such an evil creature inserted into the most sensitive aspect of it's sentience is the motivation behind the forests actions. Should the iron cage of Karkasan's prison have been removed early on there would have been a chance that the Crying Woods would have reverted to its natural state of calm awareness. The excruciating pain built up over thousands of years has permanently altered the forests outlook.

• The Wyvaran empire came after the Teucri were in the area. Their empire did not last long in terms of empires, only a few hundred years.

• Post Sargrass Crossover, the Crying Wood concentrated its power and has overcome any living creature’s attempts to hide themselves from its notice within its borders. All living creatures have been eradicated from the plateau, with one exception. All former potions, solvents, spells, and magical items various games used to prevent attack by the Wood no longer work, as they are not powerful enough. Again, with one exception.

• The exception is the village of Elvenguard. In the Crimson Shields game, the paladin Florin Jadenth sacrificed his mortal body to become the next spiritual protective power over the village (via use of a Teucri artifact). Florin had been combating the Crying Wood throughout its whole territory, and could, in places, prevent it from attacking living creatures. Upon the concentration of the Woods, however, Florin found it required all his strength to keep it from destroying Elvenguard. The area surrounding the village is now a constant battleground, as the Crying Wood and Florin, Protector of Elvenguard, unleash their powers against each other.