<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=259433.msg12842791#msg12842791">Quote from: LuckyLukin on 15-12-2016, 15:51:09</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I was also curious about the physical terrain of the place. Flora/fauna of Neverwinter Wood, where do the Elves live in it? And what is with the ruins on the southern part, between Neverwinter and the Wood.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>The Sword Coast in general is very European in terms of flora and fauna, and Neverwinter Wood in particular is a boreal forest full of pine trees and giant elk and such. The elves have most of Neverwinter Wood to themselves and are especially concentrated in the central region where there's lots of rivers. The eastern and southern edges, near Triboar Trail and the Starmetal Hills, are still controlled by goblinoids, the hills surrounding Mt. Hotenow are overrun by tribes of hill barbarians, and Mt. Hotenow itself is primarily controlled by the dwarven colony of Gauntlgrym, although pockets of resistance from fire elementals and dark elves do remain.<br/><br/>There aren't any particularly important ruins in Neverwinter Wood, though. Gauntlgrym<em>was</em>a major ruin in the area, but then the dwarves moved back in and spruced the place up. The particular ruin you might be thinking of is Thundertree, which was a minor town before Mt. Hotenow erupted and wiped it out. A bunch of zombies took up residence there, but they crumbled to dust about ten years ago and now the place is just empty. Occasionally some nasty like a goblin warlord or whatever will come along and hole up there for a few weeks or months, but no one's put down any permanent roots there. Conyberry, Old Owl Well, and Leilan weren't destroyed by Mt. Hotenow specifically, but it's the same basic story there. The whole Neverwinter region went to Hell when Hotenow erupted and the lynchpin of trade and military protection was half-razed, and a lot of the smaller outlying villages got sacked. Neverwinter has only recently been rebuilt, and most of the old villages in its hinterland are still abandoned ruins.