Corridor forest · Deepwood
The Black Colonnade
Thirty metres of trunk before the first branch, and then no sky at all. Whatever light gets down here comes in columns.
The Black Colonnade is a walkable stand of 121 blackspire trees in Deepwood, 196 m along its long axis, with the lowest crown 14.9 m overhead.
Measured
- Centre — x -662, z 599
- Ground height — 134.4 m
- Band — Deepwood
- Species — blackspire
- Trees — 121
- Solid pieces — 605
- Footprint — 196 m by 148 m
- Outer radius — 95.2 m
- Trunk height — 24 m to 30 m
- Lowest crown — 14.9 m
- Narrowest gap between trunks — 5.1 m
- Crown cover — 5.6× the ground beneath
- Nearest named place — Greenmarch, 432 m away
- From Landfall — 1545 m west
The trees
Conical crowns on long bare trunks — the silhouette of a forest you can see through.
121 trunks stand on a triangular lattice 11.2 m apart, each jittered up to 1.5 m off its cell so no two rows line up. Trunks run 24 m to 30 m, and the lowest 62% of one is bare — which is the whole reason you can see down a lane here instead of standing in a bush. The first crown starts 14.9 m above your head.
The narrowest passage this species can produce between two trunk colliders is 5.1 m, which is the floor for the entire stand: everything else in it is further apart than that.
Walking it
The footprint is 196 m by 148 m, turned on its own axis so it follows the land rather than the compass. A lane 6.4 m wide is kept clear along the long axis and a glade 11 m across sits at the heart of it — the two places in a closed forest where you can see the sky.
605 solid pieces in total: trunks, and the fallen logs you can stand on. Ground litter, light shafts and drifts are drawn but carry no collider.