Woods

The woods are the main area of the Shrinking Woods, as well as the place of residency of the Witches. They consist of a large area covered by various densities of trees, surrounding many small glades and lakes throughout the large forest.

The woods are usually considered as the most dangerous place because of the risks of being attacked there. In the absence of any cohesion or authority, nobody is indeed guaranteed to not fall victim to robbery or capture in this place. Knights and Villagers are regularly assaulted by powerful witches who live in these woods, and Witches are often attacked inside their own homes by knights hoping to capture them easily when they don't expect it.

The average density of trees and vegetation also makes it difficult to travel through the woods, out of a few paths like the Road to iron mines. It also makes Witches buildings very difficult to find in the middle of the trees for a Knight or another witch.

Social structure
Unlike Caerville, the social structure of the woods is quite simple. It is actually not a society, but hundreds of small Witches societies and single beings spread out in the forests and their glades.

When they don't consist of a single witch, these micro-societies that can reach up to 50 members have a wide variety of political organisations. Some of them are equalitarian systems with the witches deciding everything collectively and putting in common all the resources they can gather. Some others are hierarchical systems built around a single witch who mostly makes the other ones serve her and downgrades the ones who threaten her power by taking their size away.

The woods are also the residency of villagers and knights who left Caerville, either as a protest against the way Knights rule the town or because they were wanted after having committed an offence.