Wilderness provides the bulk of the horror in Cozy horror.
The wilderness is dangerous and scary. When characters are in the wilderness they can never let their guard down.
For Marloth stories, the horror of Cozy horror should largely be Survival horror.
The ingredients of a cozy horror wilderness setting are:
The wilderness is only dangerous to characters inside it.
In order to be inside the wilderness, characters must leave their sanctuaries.
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There are various motivations that cause characters to enter the wilderness.
Provisioning is a core motivation.
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Sanctuaries are isolated by wilderness.
Often, characters must travel from one sanctuary to another.
Sometimes characters must perform activities within the wilderness.
In those cases, the character isn’t so much traveling between sanctuaries as traveling to a site, working there, then returning to a sanctuary.
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The longer the duration of the work activity, the greater the danger.
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