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For low-level characters: Local folklore speaks of a spec-
tral young woman sometimes appearing along the road
through the forest, sobbing and leading men deeper into
the Bramblewood to never be seen again. While these
tales are generally considered childish ghost stories, a
mining crew was recently found dead near the fabled spot,
unwounded and with looks of terror stretched across their
lifeless faces. Depending on character level, the spirit may
be a specter or a banshee.
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For low-level characters: A sacred grove sits in the heart
of the western Bramblewood, tended to by three solitary
druids who claim to keep the spirits of the forest at peace.
However, loggers have made claims of the trees them-
selves uprooting (animated trees) to slaughter them, and
blame the druids for the attacks. The PCs are asked to join
a mob of angry workers to bringing the druids to justice—
but the trio urges them to stay away, claiming a corrupting
force has newly made the woods its home. Are they just
trying to avoid justice, or is there truly a supernatural evil
at work in the Bramblewood?
Foramere Basin
This great lake was once the ice fortress of Errevon the
Rimelord, the elemental behemoth that nearly toppled
the fledgling realm of Tal’Dorei. It was here that the
combined forces of Kraghammer, Syngorn, Tal’Dorei,
and the Ashari hurled the Rimelord back into the Frost-
fell and brought an end to the Icelost Years. The massive
lake left behind by Errevon’s melted citadel is now the
largest source of fresh water in central Tal’Dorei.
Foramere Basin’s shores are peppered with tiny huts and
fishing communities, many of which trade back-and-forth
with Kymal or Westruun. Fed by the running waters of the
Tundrun and Byhills Rivers, the waters eventually spill into
the Owlset Bay via the Foramere Waterway. Some of these
fishing villages are home to the descendants of the warriors
that warred against the Rimelord’s tyranny, many of them
dwarves and even elves. The bad blood between Syngorn
and Kraghammer has no bearing on the relationships of
elves and dwarves in Foramere. Some Syngornian elves
and exiled half-elves find refuge here, discontent with their
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a niGhtMare before Winter’s crest
For mid-level characters: The festival of Winter’s Crest
celebrates the anniversary of the Rimelord’s defeat and
the fall of Foramere Citadel. The PCs, far from home
on the holiday, are not only witness to the fishing com-
munities who gather on the banks of the basin gather to
celebrate Winter’s Crest, but the grim sight of Foramere’s
waters surging upward from the basin. The water has
begun to freeze into towers of ice—someone or some-
thing is recreating the domain of Errevon the Rimelord
and will not stop until all of Tal’Dorei is buried in ice.