The Abyssal Forest of Khaar is one of the more dangerous demiplanes within Khyber. The rainforest stretches for hundreds of miles, with high humidity and overbearing heat, and a malevolence permeats every part of it; the flora and the fauna, the smallest animals to the greatest beasts.
The plane is a gigantic jungle, with plants that are superficially similar to what might be found in Q'barra or Xen'drik, with trees growing up to 250 feet tall. The sky of the plane is a bruised purple, lit by two maroon suns that hang low in the sky above the forest, but most denizens cannot see it due to the thick canopy that blankets the top of the jungle. The entire demiplane smells sickeningly sweet, with an undertone of rot, due to the chemicals released by the various plant life.
Life in the Abyssal Forest is twisted and toxic. The animals are monstrous and alien, universally venomous and often poisonous as well. Everything, even animals that seem like familiar prey animals on Eberron, are carnivorous and cruel. The flora is arguably worse, resembling plants that can be found on Eberron but also universally hostile. Many of the plants are carnivorous, and even those that aren't are still malevolent, spouting toxic thorns, flowers that cloud the mind, caustic sap and sticky residues that paralyse prey.
The only humanoids that dwell within the Abyssal Forest are the Tripkee, who are adapted to the environment and resistant to the variety of toxins within it. Even so, their lives are dangerous and often short, and they've developed a multitude of methods to survive. Chiefly, they dwell in small treetop communities and do their best to avoid the notice of the demiplanes predators.
Expeditionary notes left by The Couriers (Orien Expedition No.2) mention plants that take on humanoid form, which were entirely malicious. These entities represented a greater threat, the same predatory nature exhibited by many of the demiplanes denizens combined with a greater intelligence.
The Ghaash'kala use the Abyssal Forest to make medicines and poisons. Often the difference between the two is dosage, and the Ghaash'kala have learned which substances can be useful and which should just be shunned.
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