Grey Woods
The Grey Woods were an elf-controlled forest on the Great Continent.
History
| Stories have been passed down for generations warning against it. Supposedly the place is haunted by lost souls who hunger for the living, and anyone who dies there is doomed to join them. |
| —Arvith describes rumours surrounding the Grey Woods. |
The Grey Woods were a forest on the Great Continent. To the north lay Carcyn and the Great River; to the northwest, Halstead; to the distant west, the Great Ocean; to the southeast, Aldril and the Bay of Pearls; to the southeast, the Brown Hills; to the east, Gryphon Mountain.[1] It belonged to the elves, and centuries before the humans arrived at the Great Continent, it was the location of a dramatic civil war, and was resultantly littered with old fortresses and unburied bodies.[2]
It was also one of the locations where the Ka'lian would meet. Shortly before one such meeting, Prince Haldric landed at the Bay of Pearls, bringing with him refugees from the Green Isle.[3] He was brought by Ka'lian councilwoman Lady Dionli to the Grey Woods to negotiate his people's place in the land. It was decided that the refugees would be given various places to settle, including the plains surrounding the Grey Woods.[4]
Various saurians led by Krissaz came to settle in the ruins of the civil war, relying on the nagas for protection.[5] On the ninth day of the fourth month of the year 23W, Ras-Tabahn arranged for Ardonna to travel along an elf road to the Grey Woods and raise the elvish skeletons left from the civil war as ghosts.[2] She arrived at the forest two days later, and despite resistance from the saurians and nagas, she succeeded in her mission.[5] On the seventeenth day of the month, she was intercepted traveling further north along the road through the Grey Woods by Isthiniel, who summoned woses of the forest to attack Ardonna.[6] With the help of the ghosts, she was able to avoid being taken by the woses, and escape to the north.[7]