Bacu Forest

Bacu Forest is a remote portion of the Amazon Rainforest known for unusual natural amati patterns. These patterns have been documented to result in a significantly higher rate of true dreams by dalar spending time in the area. The vegetation growth in the area is also notable, with trees growing in arcs and at angles otherwise seen in the movement and interaction of amati.

Bacu Forest was discovered in 1747 CE by Tuanmali explorers, in the area as part of the South American Tuanmali expansion. Their goal was to identify ideal locations for enclaves based on available natural resources, high levels of natural amati, and various other features. Following local stories of a part of the forest "where nightmares come true", the group spent the night in a piece of unusually well-ordered jungle. The same night, six out of the eight members of the party experienced true dreams of a series of waterfalls, a location that was later chosen as the site of UNNAMED, today the largest Tuanmali enclave in South America.

Despite the fascinating nature of Bacu Forest, no enclave has ever been created there and no dalar have lived permanently in the area for more than a few weeks. While short-term stays appear safe, and the site is a popular (if extremely difficult to access) pilgrimage site for Brazilian Tuanmali, all dalar spending more than a few days in the area report feelings of intense dread and paranoia, in particular an aversion to harming or even touching the trees of the grove. It is notable that there has never been evidence of human habitation found for dozens of miles surrounding the site, and while modern local humans appear to have largely forgotten the site, the legends reported by the expedition team indicate it was considered dangerous.

Due to the difficulty of long-term studies, most analysis of the site is based on reports by pilgrims and short-term stays by a rotating group of researchers. The most widely-accepted hypothesis for the site's origin is an amati storm sometime between 1600 and 1700 CE. According to this theory, the storm altered the vegetation in the area to feed off of--and feed into--the local amati field, resulting in a feedback loop that causes the trees to grow in a specific arrangement, then, in turn, reorient the amati field to flow in a consistent pattern. This pattern appears to reinforce the natural dalar ability of prescience, yielding a much higher number of true dreams than dalar would experience under ordinary circumstances.