Lotusden Greenwood

The Lotusden Greenwood is a vast, leafy forest along the southern portion of the Ashkeeper Peaks on the eastern (Xhorhasian) side of the mountains. It is surrounded by swampland.

Description
The Lotusden is a darkened wood, unlike those of the more arid regions of northern Xhorhas. The woods are dense, fertile, and misty, filled with carnivorous plants and enormous creatures. There is an ancient druidic fane buried within the forest that has caused some of this unnatural growth.

The forest is considered to be dangerous. Myths and tales speak of regions of it that are home of uncontrolled, corrupted fey magic, and sections of it that are cursed, where the woods themselves move and shift without notice.

Notable locations
In the center of the Mouldered Grove, there is a region of leafless deadwoods, where a Wraithroot Tree guarded the heart of Jourrael. When Caduceus communed with The Wildmother, she told him to "beware the bark that bites". The adventure hook Mother's Milk in the Explorer's Guide to Wildemount implies this may be the location of the lair of a coven of hags.

At its northern edge lies the druidic enclave of Charis, a city of Lotusden halflings and the more recently arrived dragonborn refugees who fled the destruction of Draconia.