Verdant Expanse

East of the Stormcrest Mountains, hundreds of miles of massive, unbridled forest shroud the landscape in mystery and shadow. This dense greenwood was for centuries traversed by few but the elves of Tal’Dorei, for it was known to be their domain, and theirs alone. Even in the time of Zan Tal’Dorei, when her rebels and their elven allies saved the realm from tyranny, it was understood that the coasts were humanity’s domain, and the woods were that of elvenkind. Times have changed, however. The alliances formed to oppose Thordak the Cinder King united virtually all of Tal’Dorei’s disparate peoples, and many more than simply elves now walk the shaded paths of the Verdant Expanse. Even so, much of the Expanse is protected by the watchful eyes of the Wardens of Syngorn, as it has been for hundreds of years. Merchants travel from Emon to Syngorn along roads sanctioned for trade, hunters both human and elven alike seek glory in tracking the wild beasts that roam the untamed wilderness, and bands of dark elf raiders from Ruhn-Shak prowl the forest under cover of night. This enchanted wood holds the decay of the seasons at bay, and its trees are green year-round. The Verdant Expanse is sustained by a massive confluence of ley lines—rivers of magical power that flow through the earth—after the devastation of the Calamity shifted the flow of magic across the world. The region is saturated with magic. Magical creatures flock to the forest’s supernaturally vibrant boughs, including wayward fey, unicorns, unusual arcane monstrosities like owlbears, and displaced aberrations that call the darker groves their home.

Locations

• The Gladepools

• The Mirescar

• The Shifting Keep

• Syngorn

• Tormor Falls

• Vues’dal Waters

• Bladeshimmer Shoreline

• Daggerbay

• Daggerbay Mountains

• Emerald Outpost

• Emon, the City of Fellowship

• Crystalfen Caverns

• Ruins of Salar

• Scar of the Cinder King

• Ruins of O’Noa New O’Noa

• Seashale Mountains

• The Shalesteps

• Visa Isle