Editing General Setting Information (section)

==== The Woods ====
To Karteria's West lies increasingly dense forests—creatively nicknamed "the woods". They're the only woods around, and the old habit of referring to them as such simply... stuck. While fragments of trails (and even parts of an attempted road network) remain, they have ''ravenously'' been reclaimed by nature. There's even the occasional campsite, or lonely cabin—but with no human visitors in decades, the conditions of either is questionable. Wild deer, boar, even bears can be found rooting about in the forests' undergrowth, protected from the sun by a thick canopy. Small predators also exist, such as foxes, stoats, and similar.

The terrain is rocky, even hilly, and natural outcroppings of Katalyth can be found as clusters upon boulders, or hidden in crevices. Their growth is not restricted to rock, however, and infestations of it have been found to wrap around the trunks of trees, bark melded into crystal. This direct contact ''does'' warp and kill the plant in question, and the sight of any dead or dying plant life is a sign to be cautious. Is this a normal blight, or is Katalyth about?
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|Patho-Gen & the Council '''STRONGLY''' encourage all citizens and Augmented to '''inform them immediately''' on coming across even small amounts of Katalyth in the wild! Clearing them up may not cure the world-wide pollution, but it might help everyone's immediate surroundings.

On encountering Katalyth, Patho-Gen asks all Augmented to use their Syntrofos to report it. For their convenience, the location of the character's Syntrofos will be transmitted automatically, and while there is also a field where characters are encouraged to write down any notable features of the sighting, the process is made as painless and simple as possible.

In addition, characters will receive some amount of money in return for each unique verified sighting.
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Some old adventurers swear that they've seen trees move, that the borders of the forest are changing on their own. Considering that hallucinations are one feature of arcane poisoning, their accounts aren't taken terribly seriously. One thing that ''is'' largely agreed on is that the composition of these forests is changing, and not necessarily in a positive direction. Though there's plenty of life, the mutations are a worrying trend, and who knows where they'll stop?