The Thicket is a dense and tangled wood that covers the entirety of the peninsula that extends below the cities of Aber and Aurian of the Eastern Plains region. The Thicket region includes the peninsula and the small island of Aber Rock off its southeast coast.
The Thicket has always been strangely resistant to the encroachment of the peoples of Hibaria. Crumbling and abandoned ruins are scattered throughout the hilly forest, the scant remnants of failed and forgotten kingdoms laid low by the power that permeates the bramble and branch of the Thicket. One such ruin is Sophie’s Tower that stands on the eastern heel of the peninsula.
A new kingdom is being established in the shadowy wood, however. The Storm left many of the children on the eastern coast of Hibaria without parents, and a number of these orphans have found a new home in the Thicket. What was once a ragged band of children is now a growing tribe that roams and hunts, and, in its own way, rules the wood. The forest has not swallowed them. It has not pushed them from its borders. But the children of this tribe are not unchanged by their new home…
