Rune-Midgarts

Umbala

the tree at the end of the path

  • umbala
  • rainforest, north of Comodo

A village of drums and smoke in a forest so thick the sky is a rumour.

There is a legend about a forgotten path north of Comodo that ends at a giant tree, and about what waits at the top of it: "Men ruled by avarice will obtain treasure. But men who are not will be led to a new world." For years the bards sang it as a story about a lost kingdom. Scholars now believe the Tree of Umbala may be part of Yggdrasil itself — the world tree — and that the "new world" was never a metaphor.

Umbala
Umbala

Threads

  • the tribal traditions here sit outside the kingdom's guilds
  • Kalala Swamp and the forest depths
  • the tree climb, the treasure that is not treasure

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