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Description:

This is the headquarters of the park, the lifeblood of its operations, and the most popular tourist zones. Rangers hold classes on various park safety, rehabilitation, and ecological subjects. Others care for the variety of animals – between the temporary residents being rehabbed and permanent crew that cannot be returned to the wild, it’s always a full house.

Landmarks:

• Misae Sanctuary and Rehabilitation Centre - A multi building complex with open paddocks, a vet care building, rehabilitation building for animals with a grass roof, stables/kennels and farmland with various trees to support tokotas and other wildlife. There is a garden center to help grow and study rare flora, and just outside this building is a pond that is also divided for fish rehabilitation.

• Red Maple Rise - Commonly referred to as the Cranberry Bog by an expansive, overgrown cranberry and other red berry filled bog located in the chilly north.The waters are a manageable hot bathtub temperature - only because the area is located over a massive hot spring. The bog is surrounded by many large maple trees that turn the area brilliantly red during fall. Amidst the bog is a large rock formation with a tokota-sized opening. This opens into an underground spring with glowing mushrooms and steamy hot pools of mineral water.

• Cloudborne Mountains - A counterpart to Mount Mozz from the Scarred Plateau. Contrasting sharply with the other half of the mountain range, the Cloudbornes are filled with birch, aspen, and cedar foresting and the life that they contain. This mountain range has a unique feature – clouds hang low around the mountaintops, covering the peaks and making them seem as if they pierce the sky itself. The rangers of Misae have constructed numerous 50 foot tall watch towers so that they may see above the bulk of the forest to see any mischief or danger that may go on, such as wildfires or poaching.

• Giants Trail - A large swath of forest containing old growth Cedar, Douglas Fir, and Hemlock. Moss creeps up these old giants, wrapping their lower portions in shaded blankets of green. The rangers take any harm that comes to this portion of the forest extremely seriously – some of these trees are over 800 years old!

• Moonlight Cenote - Formerly dry land, over many years this valley flooded and is now a permanent lake with entrances to deeper underground sections of water. The whole area is flush with plant life – many unique species that used to live above water now thrive below. It got its name due to the reflection of the moon on its surface – when the moon is full and the water still, it looks like it rests on the surface of the lake.

• Spirit Tree - This is a smallish, bushy tree surrounded by a forest of multiple varieties of deciduous trees. In the spring it glows green, in the summer and fall it can glow from orange to a fiery red, in the fall it will glow a lovely golden yellow and in the winter it can glow blue to a deep purple depending on the temperature. No one’s quite sure of what causes the leaves to give off that enchanted glow - some say it may be a deity that makes the area its home, though some stand that it’s some sort of bioluminescent phenomenon.

Lore:

Original location inspiration by KankuranLupus, Keartiricty, KirasDarkLight & Misae Tribe