Hidden Lake

Hidden Lake is an unusual saltwater lake south of the Hidden Forest, in a bowl between the Lodestar Mountains to the east, and the Shinantra Mountains to the west. Its saltwaters have led many to believe that somehow there is a passage underneath the lake that connects many hundreds of miles to the north to the Narrow Sea, but such has never been verified.
The cities around Hidden Lake once attempted to make a living exporting cut wood, but a number of conflicts with the pixies and sylphs in the forest made the humans in the five cities think twice of this venture. They only cut the wood they needed to survive, and they spent their time fishing and growing crops in the fields between the forest and the lake.

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The southeastern shores of Hidden Lake, composed of a series of caves, were the home of a number of packs of saltwater trolls who occasionally attacked fisherman, adventurers, explorers, and others in the area. They were rooted out a number of times, but the trolls always returned in a few years. Until the fall of Netheril‚ when they were believed killed by the lack of water, the trolls harassed any creatures that strayed too close to their lairs.

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Lake