The northern isle of Talmont is home to a biome of deciduous jungle, long cut off from the rest of the world while it was developing. It has many unique, dangerous, and bizarre species, including its sentient tree denizens. With its entirety claimed as the domain of this or that Talmontese tribe, it is a lethal place to visit if you haven't been granted the proper sanctions. Botanists, alchemists, healers, and game hunters might brave the dangers regardless for a chance at collecting the precious specimens found nowhere else in Ul-Zaorith.

The Talmontese are an anthropomorphic nocturnal species of tree that have long baffled biologists and botanists throughout the world. They make their homes up in the trees to protect themselves from their numerous natural predators and to prevent themselves from rooting during the day as they sleep. Their females impregnate their males, they grow stiffer and more rigid as they age, and in "death" they root and become part of the forest, joining with their massive ancestral tree formations. They are extremely territorial; the policy of "shoot on sight" is nearly universal. You have been warned!