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.
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Zone 1
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.
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Zone 2
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.
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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.
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Zone 3
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.
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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.
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Encounter Tables
Priority Encounters
- Anal Probing: (seasonal event, March 20-April 11)
- Kara's Picnic: (seasonal event, October 1-November 30)
- Vari pregnancy announcement and birth announcement (requires impregnating Vari)
- Vatia missing (one time, post Winter City)
Combat Encounters
- Drider Queen
- Frostwood Kitsune
- Goblin Succubus: (post Winter City)
- Gytha: (post Winter City)
- Meira: (prior to completing Den of Foxes)
- Kurako: (becomes non-hostile after defeating her enough times, or becoming a Kitsune)
- Painted Demon: (post Winter City)
Other Encounters
- Gianna's Caravan
- Hatsumomo
- Ice Rose (Zone 3)
- Valencia: (one-time)
- Vatia: (prior to completing Winter City)
- Vari
Quest Related
Cat Call
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Den of Foxes
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In Her Footsteps
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Inheriter of the Idols
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