Welcome to Legends of Adventress. I'm Mikey Gilder and you're listening to Uprooted.

The woodland is at war. Oh shit. You all are denizens of the dim wood. The home that most of you have known your entire lives,

and a place that has been at war for as long as you can remember, as long as most denizens and critters of all kinds can remember.

For centuries, this entire land had been ruled by the Great Erie, an aristocracy of birds that placed the birds in their treetop homes above all other animals gave them special rights and brought

civilization to the wood that had once been so savage filled with lurking monsters bears boars deer

gigantic insects and arachnids and other horrors that only exist in folklore.

However, such a bloated aristocracy cannot last, and there was a great civil war,

where two factions within the Eerie effectively tore themselves to pieces and much of the dim wood

with it.

In a period of lawlessness that followed, there was less strife than the great civil war,

but life still wasn't safe. It wasn't secure.

Then that's when the Marquis de Katt arrived.

A distant empire called the Mond de Katt had been not interested in the dimwood being as far as it was,

but an enterprising noble named,

or rather an enterprising noble known only as the Marquis de Cat, decided to stake a claim

and rise to her own, her own sense of grandeur and power and a great army of cats and some dogs and other animals

that they conscripted into their army marched upon the dim wood and conquered it very quickly.

They helped establish industry, order.

Where people had been starving,

there was more plentiful bounty.

There was far more trade.

Even new pathways in this treacherous woodland

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