Amber Road

The Amber Road, also known as the Golden Road, is a road that leads through Wildemount, featured in Campaign 2.

Trostenwald to Alfield
The Amber Road connects Trostenwald to Zadash, approximately two hundred miles northward. Along the way, it passes through Alfield, a city slightly smaller than Trostenwald. This section of the road is a well-packed, ten-foot-wide, dirt roadway. It is too narrow for two carts to travel abreast along it. By foot, the trip from Trostenwald to Alfield could be completed in two full days of travel at a quick pace.

Flora
When the Campaign 2 adventuring party journeyed from Trostenwald to Alfield, the central portion of the Marrow Valley along the Amber Road was filled with rolling hills covered in high grasses, wheats, grains, wild weeds, and bright, white wildflowers. Three hundred to six hundred feet from the road, tree clusters and small wooded areas dotted the landscape.

Fauna
In, the party saw the forms of three thick, muscular, large-horned, quadrupedal, buffalo-like creatures roaming the grasslands. Easily spooked, the creatures fled when one of the party members stepped on a field frog, which then croaked loudly. Fjord had not seen this type of creature near the port towns.

Travelers
The Campaign 2 adventuring party left Trostenwald after resolving troubles with the local law officials. The party set out on the Amber Road toward Zadash with a small carnival cart and a single horse. They discussed the safety of the road, both in the context of robbing other travelers and of being robbed themselves. They took caution against bandits and slept in shifts.

After traveling approximately fifty miles on the Amber Road, the party passed a southbound trade caravan of six heavy wagons, each being pulled by a trio of horses. These covered wagons were varied in their sizes and contents, carrying tall bundles. At the front of each of the wagons with the reins was a figure in long robes, an ornate silk mantle, and a thick scarf tossed over the shoulder obscuring part of the face. The three rear wagons were taller and carried the traveling families with goods. The last cart contained a pair of children, an older girl and her brother, both of whom seemed younger than ten years of age. The boy had tangled, black hair that poofed outward, deep brown skin, and bright, blue eyes; he was captivated by Mollymauk Tealeaf's passing sword tricks. Hailing from the Menagerie Coast, the trade caravan was making its way back to Port Zuun by way of Nicodranas. The caravan had stopped briefly in Zadash to sell wares and purchase goods to take back home.

Trivia

 * Matthew Mercer referred to the Amber Road as the "Golden Road" in the recap at the beginning of .  Since this is the only time the northward road was referred to as the Golden Road, this article assumes that the official name is the "Amber Road" and the "Golden Road" is a nickname.