Location

Old Noctis Forest

Created by Willows Seether

Shrouded in perpetual mist that clings to the undergrowth like a living thing, the Old Noctis Forest sprawls across the desolate margins beyond Noctis Prime, its towering timber sentinels rising nearly thirty feet toward an obscured sky. The forest floor is a maze of crumbling foundations and deteriorating structures—remnants of a settlement long reclaimed by nature and decay—their corroded metal frames jutting through tangles of overgrown vegetation like skeletal fingers. A thick haze of ash and condensation hangs between the gnarled trunks, casting everything in shades of grey and sickly neon bioluminescence from scattered technological debris half-buried in moss and soil. The landscape bears the deep scars of an ancient conflict: scorched earth, overturned vehicles fused with rust, and blast craters now pooling with stagnant water that reflects the dim ambient glow of defunct neon signage still flickering weakly in abandoned structures. No maintained pathways exist here; movement through the forest requires navigating treacherous debris fields and navigating between warped metal frameworks that once housed residents now long vanished. The few signs of life are minimal—bioluminescent fungi coating dead wood, and the occasional movement of scavengers drawn to this forsaken place by hunger or desperation. Those who venture into Old Noctis Forest do so knowing they enter a graveyard of civilization, where every shadow conceals potential danger and the fog obscures what may lurk between the trees. The oppressive atmosphere suggests that whatever catastrophe befell this place, its wounds remain unhealed and its ghosts remain restless.