Stardeep Canyon

The eastern-most territory, these deep forests have grown up in a massive canyon, the result of a meteor crash long ago. The trees that grow here are hundreds of feet tall and blot out the sun completely in many areas. Only a twilight glow reaches the ground for a few hours. The rest of the time, the forest glows with moss, fungi, and insects that have a bio-luminescence. The dirla here make their homes in the labyrinthine passages made by the roots of the most massive species of trees, the skywood, or make platform houses up the trunks. These dirla make a living with hunting (mostly cyprus lizards) and trapping, collecting of dyes and medicines, or making the beautiful, glowing cores of star lanterns.

There are two towns in Stardeep: Eptsesm and Timrak.

Eptsesm, to the north, is a meandering town, wide in range but lower in population than you might think. It is the farthest north in the canyon that anyone has settled, as it only gets darker and wilder from there. Strange things lurk in the north.

Timrak, on the other hand, is more densely packed but greater in population. They get consistent twilight throughout the day and some places even get direct sunlight. A lot of processing of raw materials from the forest is done here, then traded off to their nearest sister town of Phasia in Maya's Cradle.

The Lantern River flows out of the very north end of the canyon and moves swiftly through its rocky course to Gemscatter. Odd things tend to wash out of it.