'Mairi's' Lake
From SCross
There has always been a sizable lake a little ways within the borders of the forest, fed by a river leading in from the South and surrounded by grassy banks and sandy shores, however the lake has perhaps seen more change than any other part of the forest, for both good and ill.
The original lake is said to have existed since the time of the legendary first Esper Thraxius Thistleborne, and the forming of the Esper Forest. However, this lake was completely destroyed by the most cataclysmic explosion the forest has ever known, and has never been able to explain; an explosion that robbed the forest of one of its most innovative minds.
After this, with the coming of the Half-Esper of Ice and Water Mairi to the forest just prior to the time of her father, the Esper of Nightmares Phobetor's rule, the blast crater left by the explosion began to fill once more. This was due solely to the efforts of the young Mairi, having been promised by the faerie council that she would be made a full Esper as reward for her work, if it was solely by her own power. For several years she almost never left her place by the lakeside, calling down a continuous downpour of rain solely over the crater, until finally it was once again full and efforts could begin to discover the reason for the loss of water from the southern river. This was eventually linked to the existence of a strange, undead plant which, after a short engagement with several members of the Court, was destroyed and the river's feed of water to the lake restored. By her efforts, to most of the forest the until then unnamed lake has come to be known as 'Mairi's Lake'. A couple of years later however, during a faerie expedition to the far North, Mairi disappeared. She quite simply did not return with the adventuring party.
There was one more incident which compromised the lake, the appearance of a WEAPON from its center to attack the nearby Imperial Capitol, however the river having been restored, Mairi's Lake soon recovered to its former size.
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