-  A gargantuan Forest surrounds the city of Rastaban in a dense, forbidding expanse. 
-  Those who touch the Forest or venture into it come back changed. Their blood made of sweet sap. Their actions strange and alien. 
-  Nor is the Forest content with keeping to its bounds. It is fast. It is constantly shifting and expanding.  
-  The Forest takes who it can. If left unchecked, it will take everyone.  
-  That is why we call it the Forest of Loss. 
-  To help manage the constant threat of the Forest, the Foresters Guild was founded. 
-  There are certain rare and ill-starred individuals who enter the Forest and emerge unscathed. These individuals are recruited into the Foresters Guild, safe from the fear and superstition of society.