We’ll talk details, but for first let’s revisit my minimalist framework for my worldbuilding. Likewise the jungle, a rather skewed trope from colonial discourse, invokes a feeling of suffocation, tropes of human as beast, and beasts surpassing humanity.īut as we’ll see, forests have enough diversity within them to cover many moods and themes. And on the other, the foreboding, labrynthine, slow deadliness of the the forest primeval. On the one hand the benevolent woodlands, a natural cathedral, full of wisdom and contemplation.
In The Anatomy of Story (2007), John Truby identifies the Forest as a symbol reflecting a sort of binary archetype of awe and dread. Moist Coniferous & Evergreen Broadleaf Forest Tropical & Subtropical Coniferous Forests Tropical & Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf / Seasonal / Semi-Evergreen / Monsoon Rainforest Snag Forest / Complex Early Seral Forest
Part 5: Snag, Old Growth, Secondary Growth
Part 0: Mythic Ecology For Fantasy Worldbuilding & Storytelling
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