Beyond the Golden Girdle, (The Golden Wood)

Lands of great sleepy hollows, places to lay in rest in.

Eldertrees live in this forest, unique to all others, as they were the oldest race of beings to ever live. They lived out their entire lives in peace and tranquility for many thousands of years. They planted the arch trees from when they were mere saplings. They once were planted all over Ascesis, but now they only still live in the Golden Wood, as the rest were cut down long ago. They can communicate through vibrations on their long root network. They can also whisper to Mera that live around them.

The whispers of the trees communicate in one of the oldest languages of all the world, in tones of love and compassion, about the primordial connection of the Earth, the skies, and the first rains to ever come to the world. The sense of gentle persistence and confidence in this process was embodied in these trees. The way that life was originally meant to positively grow in connection between the heavens and the Earth are embodied in them. The sense of renewal in the somatic body is also a feeling a person gets when they bask in the aura of the trees.

Butterflies and moths fly around the tree, feeding and sustaining the flowers of the tree. In the whispers of the wingbeats, they communicate secrets of all the universe. In later years, after innocence is sacrificed as previous conceptions of the tree were abandoned. The eddies and currents, and back flowing of time are perceived, when the sap is consumed in an mood of utter dedication to the truth.

There sap is sacred, and has limitless magical qualities. It has started to be stolen over time in latter days by witches that are using it as part of a cosmetics industry in latter days.

The Eldest Trees also live there, in sacred meadows and groves. Other names for them are grandmother trees, and grandfather trees. It is said that these trees serve as the personal guardians for the Elves that are born, sheltered under the trees.

Yet this sheltering has negative effects on those that lived under there care long enough. The culture began to stagnate and decline as the ages wore on.