| Category | Forests |
| Continent | Brucrumus |
| Region | Northern Hordelands |
| Map | Zyrath |
The Linga-Mal is a labyrinthine, thorny forest situated west of the Kanorthak mountains. This uncanny place is blighted by its numerous feywild fuses - portals connecting it to the distant realm of Kriav.
In the Lith-Crillion Era, the Wolfspirits, a Gnoll tribe that have long inhabited this region, named the forest after a colossal battlebriar. This witch-spawned entity, unrestrained and uncontrolled, hunted out of both need and amusement. The tribe gained deference for the creature when, after igniting its lair, Linga-Mal pursued them back to their encampments, decimating a tribe of four hundred to a mere remnant through its rampage, then tracking and eliminating the survivors for weeks on end.
The towering battlebriar, Linga-Mal, is said to have met its demise years later while engaging in combat with Apocaleen. Displeased with the red dragon's hunting activities within its domain, the two combatants clashed with fervor. After narrowly avoiding the loss of a limb, Apocaleen took to the skies. The battlebriar then turned to luring its adversary westward towards the yawning chasm of Gebs Cradle.
Linga-Mal, enraged and wounded, plunged into this abyss, vanishing from all accounts. Some claim that Linga-Mal did not perish, for only a deity could slay a being of such terrifying might.
Quengaldo, the venerable treant of the Einglach forest, recounts the "Legend of Linga-Mal"
The people of the region claim that venerable, potent sylvan spirits haunt this woodland. Utilizing fey sorcery, they conjure fearsome forest titans akin to the battlebriars, selling them to empires and those affluent enough to procure them.