Forest of Magic

魔法の森 (まほうのもり) ; Forest of Magic; ma̠ho̞ː no̞ mo̞ɾi
	; The Forest of Magic, as seen in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody.
Location	On one side of the Human Village, Unknown
Residents	Marisa Kirisame; Alice Margatroid; Rinnosuke Morichika; Three Fairies of Light (Formerly); Mamizou Futatsuiwa; Shizuha Aki; Tsuchinoko(?); Narumi Yatadera; Eternity Larva;
Appearances
Official Games
	Immaterial and Missing Power (Stage Location); Imperishable Night (Prologue setting); Scarlet Weather Rhapsody (Stage Location); Touhou Hisoutensoku (Stage Location); Fairy Wars (Various Stage Locations); Double Dealing Character (Prologue setting); Hidden Star in Four Seasons (Prologue mention, Stage 4); Touhou Gouyoku Ibun (Stage 1);
Print Works
	Curiosities of Lotus Asia (Secondary Location); Eastern and Little Nature Deity (Minor location); Strange and Bright Nature Deity (Secondary location); Perfect Memento in Strict Sense (Article (Forest of Magic); Oriental Sacred Place (Minor Location); Wild and Horned Hermit (Secondary location); Forbidden Scrollery (Minor location);

The Forest of Magic (魔法の森, Mahou no Mori) is location name in Gensokyo that's a focal point for all things evil, ominous and repulsive, located not far from the Human Village. It's the home to both Marisa Kirisame and Alice Margatroid.

General Information

Since Gensokyo isn't a huge place, if you say "forest" (森, Mori), it refers to the Forest of Magic. It's called the "Forest of Magic" because of the wide number of hallucinogenic mushrooms that grow here. Many magicians live in this forest for the sake of increasing their magical powers with these hallucinogenic mushrooms. The forest has areas of ground where the sun never shines, thus making them dark and damp for mushrooms to endlessly grow there.

It's a place whose true nature is clouded by strange rumours and weird happenstance. The forest's environment is extremely hazardous to both humans and youkai and both kinds typically also find the place uncomfortable. The spores of monstrous mushrooms dance about in mid-air and a normal human's health would worsen simply by breathing here, putting aside the human-eating plants and inevitable, horrible misfortune that will surely befall all who even think of trespassing into the forest. However, if one could stand the noxious gases that the monstrous mushrooms emit, then it would be both a safe and secretive place to seclude oneself, or a fairly nice place to live for people who don't like to be disturbed.

Geography & People

Marisa and Alice's houses are located somewhere within the forest near to each other. Near both their houses is the tree where the Three Fairies of Light used to live, but they have now moved behind the Hakurei Shrine. Rounding out the main attractions is Kourindou, Rinnosuke Morichika's shop of odds and ends (including many objects from the outside world), which is found on the very border of the forest itself.

In Oriental Sacred Place Chapter 10, a radio tower that appeared in the forest from the outside world was converted into a fairy shrine by the Three Fairies of Light.

In Symposium of Post-mysticism, it is known that the forest is one of Mamizou Futatsuiwa's and Shizuha Aki's main places of activity.

Sub-Locations

Marisa's house, as seen in Immaterial and Missing Power

Alice's house, as seen in Immaterial and Missing Power

Marisa's House

Marisa Kirisame has her own home located in the forest that's used as her storage and filled with dangerous items and generally odd things due to Marisa's mania for collecting. Apparently her house doubles as the "Kirisame Magic Shop", which doesn't have many customers due to its location.

It's unknown how Marisa got her home, but she tells Tenshi Hinanawi that her "house wasn't built for earthquakes" and says in her Scarlet Weather Rhapsody ending that if her house is destroyed, she can always build a new one. There doesn't seem to be anything particularly special about her house and she was probably around when it was originally built. At the time of Curiosities of Lotus Asia Chapter 7, it was still new enough that Marisa referred to it as "my new house", at least in comparison to living with her parents.

Alice's House

Alice Margatroid also has her own home located in the in the forest filled with dolls. It's a white European-style building that's small in size. It's unknown how she got her home. If consistent with PC-98 canon, she lived in Makai before moving here.