Frostwood
| Frostwood | |
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Map of the Frostwood (0.4.24) | |
| Level range | 4+ |
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| Neutral Hub |
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The Frostwood is the region between the Wayfort and the Winter City. Like much of the Frost Marches it is ancestral land of the Boreal Elves, however following the Godswar the remnants have largely retreated with their city walls. Far from idle, the Frostwood has come to be inhabited by exiled Old Wyld loyalists, Kitsune colonials, the enigmatic Lady Evergreen, as well as demonic invaders.
The approach from the Wayfort is a neutral zone leading to Oxana's Mansion. Heading north, the red zone travels northwest towards the Winter City, the blue zone leads northeast to the Temple of Terrestrial Fire, while the green zone contains the Kurokawa Kitsune Den and the gates to the Winter City. Etheryn has a number of comments about Frostwood landmarks and history as you travel through the area.
Locations
Neutral Area
Oxana's Mansion
You've passed beneath the strange redwood arch on the path, which has wound its way through the woods towards a small clearing. Somebody's built a rather large stone house here, what you'd probably call a manor if it sat on a proper plot of land — but aside from a rather large garden flanking the path up to the solid wood door, the forest seems to end mere feet from the house itself. Branches overhang the arched roof, covered with the same thin gloss of frost and snow as the rest of the forest. The house has actual glass windows along its upper floors, and you can see lights glowing from inside through thick curtains.
Lady Evergreen has erected a barricade to shield Oxana's Mansion from the dangers lurking to the north. You'll need to see her to gain access to the woods beyond. Don't worry, you can trust her.
Zone 1 (Red)
Frost Pupper's Cave
You're at the bottom of a rocky, snow covered cliff face. Ice and compacted snow occasionally falls from the cliff and surrounding trees, thumping onto the ground below. There's a cave nearby, it's large entrance casting a visible fire-light glow outward. If your memory serves, it's the cave that belongs to that giantess half-lupine you met before... maybe she's home.
If you take the Frost Pupper for Walkies, she leads you back to her lovely domicile.
Zone 2 (Blue)
Lyla's Campfire
It’s not long before you find the source of the light. You see a small campfire burning atop some well ordered stones, making company to a woman who sits just in the outer circle of light and warmth, resting her back against a tree while sharpening a sword. Her brown eyes focus on the weapon as she runs the stone across the blade, freeing a metallic sound that resonates through the camp. She then licks her thumb and rubs it against a tiny dirtied spot, too absorbed by her task to notice you.
Once you've cleared Winter City, Lyla appears at her campfire at night.
Temple of Terrestrial Fire
Before you is a towering hill, covered in craggy stone and thick moss. The snow that's otherwise ever-present in the Frostwood succeeds from the hill as if by magic, forming an almost perfectly circular line fifty feet from the start of the rise. A number of particularly large and ancient-seeming trees grow roots in the soil on the hillside, though their trunks seem blackened in places as if ravaged by fire.
There is a cave entrance not far from where you stand, clearly man-made. Large oblong stones stand in two rows leading away from the entrance, like primitive arches. They're all covered with strange red symbols, and while you cannot decipher the language, you can clearly see pictograms that can only possibly represent fire repeated several times on each.
North-east of the Wayfort, the Temple of Terrestrial Fire is the home of the Hellhound and potentially Agnimitra, as well as offering a new set for Brienne and an upgrade to your Summon Flame Spirit ability.
Zone 3 (Green)
Kurokawa Kitsune Den
This massive tree stands tall above the rest of the Frostwood, towering far above the canopy with its branches stretching outwards in every direction. With roots that are as thick as you are tall, the growth of this thing has been very clearly influenced or directed in some fashion — even the elven druids' wyld trees of old didn't get to these obscenely gargantuan proportions. To be quite honest, it feels more like a living artifact than a mere plant, if you could put such a sensation into words. A circle of empty space rings the tree itself, as if it's holding back the rest of the forest by sheer dint of its presence, a foreign entity in this land.
This gargantuan greenery is the base for Kitsune colonials in the Frost Marches, and is key to freeing Kiyoko and meeting many, many other floofs.
Winter City Gates
Not long after you broke out of the treeline, the massive spires of a distant city broke through the hazy mist. Now you can see a great ravine plunging down just before the towering stone walls of the city, bridged by an ancient stone archway. The sheer wall of an icy-blue glacier rises up towards the clouds beyond the rift, casting its vast shadow across the plains as you advance.
Until you've cleared Winter City, Gytha is posted here to keep intruders like you from entering the city. Once you've driven off Queen Alissa, Gytha becomes a roaming encounter.
Encounter Tables
As of 0.4.23, encounters are split between Priority, Combat, and Other. If you click 'Explore', you are more likely to get an Other encounter, if you click 'Pick A Fight' you are guaranteed to get a Combat encounter, and Priority encounters will generally trigger regardless.
Priority Encounters
- Anal Probing: Happy April Foolsiversary! (seasonal event, March 20-April 11)
- Sara's Picnic: A familiar looking witch wants to get to know you. (seasonal event, October 1-November 30)
- Vari pregnancy announcement and birth announcement: If you knock up Vari, she'll seek you out to give you the good news.
- Vatia missing: Once you've cleared Winter City, you get a notice that Vatia has moved on. However, you might see her again if you set up camp. (one time, post Winter City)
Combat Encounters
- Drider Queen: Trade offer. She receives a place to put her eggs. You receive many many eggs.
- Frostwood Kitsune: Looking for a meal. Can be deterred if you're a Kitsune or you have Kiyoko with you.
- Goblin Succubus: A roaming foe with a bad end if she defeats you several times in a row. (post Winter City)
- Gytha: Once Winter City has a change in leadership, Gytha sets out to try and find Queen Alissa. (post Winter City)
- Imps: They just need a hug. Press Surrender, I'm sure it'll be fine.
- Meira: She wants to steal your dick. Don't worry, she'll just take a bit off the top. (prior to completing Den of Foxes)
- Kurako: She's very bored and you look like you'd be fun to fight. (Zones 1 and 3, becomes Other after defeating her enough times, or becoming a Kitsune)
- Painted Demon: Demon with a paint-job. Shows up pretty much everywhere around Hawkethorne. (post Winter City)
Other Encounters
- Gianna's Caravan: Rain or shine, Gianna and her crew will be there.
- Elven Arbor 1: Hey, free item. (gives one of Winterstem, Blood Iris, Remedy, or Vulnerary)
- Elven Arbor 2: Hey, free item again.(gives one of Fox Berry, Grottato, Ring Peach, Root of Man, or Frostleaf)
- Frost Pupper: A good girl who needs a walk. (prior to doing Walkies with her)
- Hatsumomo: She's a hardworking lumberjack who also wants to play hard. (if day)
- Ice Rose: For if you want to look like a Boreal Elf.(Zone 3, gives Ice Rose)
- Strange Lights: Strange things are afoot.(if night)
- Tanglevines: You run into some spiky tangling vines. It's inconvenient.
- Valencia: A bratty lady having trouble with some Imps. Maybe she'll lighten up if you help her... you know, eventually. (one-time)
- Vatia: A hibernating snake-lady who needs help keeping warm. (prior to completing Winter City)
- Vari: A gatherer for her village. If you seem fun maybe she'll bring you back to meet some more of her people.
Quest Related
Cat Call
Lady Evergreen will happily tell you where Cait's father is... for a price.
Den of Foxes
If you'd be willing to do another favour for her, Lady Evergreen needs someone to help her with a matter with the tricky foxes in their big tree.
In Her Footsteps
When you first enter the Frostwood, Kasyrra is waiting for you with an ambush. Afterwards, you need to progress through the Frostwood to confront her in the Winter City.
Inheriter of the Idols
Lady Evergreen helping you out again by unlocking fast travel. She's so helpful and not at all evil.