The edges of the roofs are burnt and the candies that decorate the house are sweaty and melting. Large pools of sticky goo gathers in a multicolored moat around the house. tastes of mint and orange mingle when you slide your finger in the puddles and press it to your tongue. Long slow moving trickles of sugary goo drip down the roof and walls giving the whole thing the effect of melting before your eyes. What was once crispy cookie like walls is becoming soft like bread. The entire town is suffering from the effects of the climate change. Candyland was always a temperate and very dry region.
The gingerbread men must burrow down to where it is dry.
In the Subterranean Candy Worlds you can see things like candy stalagmites that have been growing for hundreds of years. Since they have found a place where the candy can last for inordinate amounts of time they have developed much detail.
The Candy Art Vaults are immense. Vast walls of carved out rock candy. Carved and melted. Poured and set in place. The depictions of the myths and stories of the Creator of the Gingerbread Man are truly fascinating.
The Dwarve Wars
When the Drarves first encountered the Ginger Bread Men and their Candy Kingdoms there were intense contests of warfare in which many gingerbread men were eated and their candy edifices consumed wholesale with no regard to story or artistic appreciation.
Terrible sugar binges would drive the stone cutters into insane rages.