Forest People [1] are a people that live in the Toxic Jungle. Worm Handlers hold them in high esteem and call them "honored ones".
Forest People intervene when a squad of Dorok-backed Worm Handers encounter the unconscious bodies of Yupa, Asbel and Ketcha [2]. The Forest People rescued Yupa, Asbel and Ketcha, preserving them from the Toxic Jungle [3].
History[]
The Forest People are descended from survivors from the Kingdom of Eftal who followed the "Blue-Clad One" into the Toxic Jungle after the Daikaisho that destroyed Eftal 300 years ago [4]. They follow the teachings of the Blue-Clad One.
Yupa muses whether the Blue-Clad One of the Forest People and the Doroks is "a hope passed down by the aboriginal Dorok religions, based on a historical person...or are they real people, created by the very lifeforce of our spiecies, reaching across space and time in our moment of need" [5].
Technology[]
The Forest People use different "technology" than other peoples.
- tents made of foam from insect fluids,
- water turbines to filter
- suits and boats from insect membranes and eating insect eggs for sustenance[6].
References[]
a See Page Conversions Between Editions to convert Deluxe Edition volume 1 (DE1) to other editions