Lushgut Forest

The Lushgut Forest is an extensive woodland area on the west coast of Wildemount. It stretches north of the settled portions of the Menagerie Coast, and fills in all the low-lying territory between the Cyrios Mountains and the sea.

The deep woods of the Lushgut Forest are home to a civilization of goblins and bugbears known as the Vinewreathed Enclave. This druidic civilization is led by bugbears who broke the control which Bane, the Strife Emperor, holds over their westward goblin kin. They are devotees of Melora, the Wild Mother, whom they know as an-Melzidanye.

There are also yuan-ti who worship the Wild Mother near a sunken temple there.

History
During the Calamity, Zehir ambushed Melora near one of her shrines in the valley. The ambush poisoned and killed a great number of Melora's followers, and her anguished scream created the tortuous, thorny forest.