Following the passage of Volothamp Geddarm through the area, the forest received more visitors than it had in decades, disturbing a number of treants and blights. Geographical Features Ī portion of Kryptgarden south of Phandalin was known as the Crooked Forest because some of the trees there had been bent by ancient creatures that dwelled there to indicate paths through the forest. The forest contained many ruins of bygone dwarven civilizations. Parts of the wood had an unexplained reddish hue about the forest floor and the bases of the trees in the late 1400s DR. Kryptgarden was a hilly woodland was covered in a thick layer of foul-smelling fog. It was an old-growth forest and local humans knew little of what lay within as of the mid-1300s DR. It lay just west of the Long Road and the village of Westbridge and north of Waterdeep. It was located east of the Sword Mountains. Geography Ī map of the Sword Coast North showing the Kryptgarden Forest. The name also seemed to originate in the orc realm called Uruth Ukrypt, meaning "Home of Uruth" in Orcish, that rose in the Sword Mountains in the 10 th century DR. The forest was itself sometimes called Southkrypt Garden. The name 'Kryptgarden' arose from the dwarfhold known as Southkrypt Garden, which stood in the north.
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