Editing Diomedes (section)

== History ==
The Diomedes has existed since long before prehistory, likely seeded by the ancient titan progenitors. The forest was once incredibly dense and difficult to navigate; accounts from Storybearers from the early Bronze Age describe it as a "triple day" journey--as in, for every day of travel takes three times as long in the forest.

Even by the Bronze Age, however, the forest was undergoing heavy deforestation, and over the millennia the size and density of Diomedes would grow and shrink several times. For most of the Bronze Age the forest shrank to nearly half of its original size before the first Circle of the Land druid groves were founded. The druids used their primal magics to increase the growth rate of the trees, pushing back against the deforestation, and during the Age of Magic the forest grew to a little larger than its current size, as construction and industry shifted from wood to stone and metal.

After the Catastrophe, the forest began shrinking again, but had held steady for most of the age thanks to the help of the druids.

During the Alrennean War, the southern portion of the Diomedes was destroyed by massive blights caused by the undead hordes in and around Garrod. That part of the forest is now called the Deadwood, though it has also begun regrowing since the eradication of the undead by 4090 VR. The Pax Ultima has decreed that if the forest returns, it will be renamed Heroes Forest in honor of all those who died there defending against Alrenn.