| Category | Forests |
| Continent | Brucrumus |
| Region | Lands of Purity, Northern Hordelands |
| Map | Kuli-Cir Forest |
The Kuli-Cir is a vast evergreen forest stretching from the ridges and valleys of the Storsalds into the highlands of Fros Idar. The towering trees of the forest feature roads and paths built along branches and fallen trunks spanning a hundred feet in diameter. This shadowy place serves as a haven for gnolls, giant spiders, displacer beasts, shadows, vampires, werewolves, su-monsters, and a tribe of Theegan Shades, among numerous other potential threats. In bygone eras, the forest maintained a more serene disposition.
In 1545 HE, githzerai refugees from the Incarsabec Rebellion (1531 HE - 1544 HE) found their way to this tangled forest. Guided purportedly by their deity Ptah, they reoccupied eight monasteries that had once trained Covenant soldiers in the Way of the Mind. By the conclusion of the Horgon Era, these githzerai had rendered Ara'rya, Osar'ged, and the other significant monasteries cleared and habitable.
In the First Epoch, the Theegans advanced southward into the Northern Hordelands. They were compelled westward by gnolls claiming the plains of Tadab-Hal and eastward for hundreds of miles. The expansive region of Kuli-Cir became home to dozens of Theegan tribes alongside eight grand monasteries. Each of these monasteries had the population of a respectable village, all Githzerai, and unless engaged in training, did not interact with those beyond their imposing walls. The Theegans relished trade with them, finding amusement in their way of life, enlightenment, learning, and physical betterment through discipline and strength.
In 738, the Witch Horde was established. This empire unified the Theegan tribes of the region. Those who once lived in scattered villages, once friendly to the githzerai, eventually turned against them, doing their part to please and gain favor with Incubus's vain witch leaders. Over the next three decades, the githzerai were driven from most of their redoubts, leaving their thousand-year homeland for the heights of Achamâz, holy ground, where they built the settlement of Ithilmar. To this day, they wage a low-level conflict with the Witch Horde, stirring up tensions and preventing others from trying to gain a foothold in Kuli-Cir's southwestern tracts. The githzerai monasteries in the east resisted encroachment, never falling or being drawn into the conflicts around them.
For centuries before law and order reached the forest's southern edge, the Theegans raided the numerous settlements emerging along the northern shores of Galathien. When pursued, these raiders retreated to the safety of Kuli-Cir, vanishing into the tangles, the shadows, or one of the area's dozen forest mazes that once served as training grounds for monks. When the Divine Empire rose to power in 1829, they dedicated substantial efforts to stabilizing the tracts surrounding Osar'ged, near their expanding territory. The most perilous of these hostile elements, the so-called "insurgents," is the Grimyat. As people of the shadows, they wage a guerrilla war against the Divine Empire, just as they did against the Farinteens (1017 - 1486), the Witch Horde, and all the gnoll empires that have emerged since the time of Yagamph.