A giant that, for some unknown reason, created a forest by stacking the debris of the ruined village of Orlbar.
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"Arriving in the abandoned village of Orlbar seemed like a pointless waste of time. Elminster’s teleportation abilities could have taken us straight to our final destination, I believe but then, as seems typical with the old wizard, it turned out he didn’t know our final destination. All he said was that we needed to be fast. There wasn’t any sign of the village when we arrived. Elminster said it had been leveled by stone giants many years before but that it held meaning for us. One of the giants was strange, Zorkh. He had stacked all the stones that remained in the location into a stone forest. Elminster demanded that Maran study the sculptures. I worked with Maran for what seemed like hours. We didn’t even know what we were looking for. Then, at the base of one of the structures, Maran pointed to a single rock bearing our family’s crest. Once he found that, he began scratching diagrams into the ground. Within a few moments, Vajra said she was able to read what he’d written. She relayed that there were certain sculptures that would lead us to our final destination. Maran continued to study and then ultimately led us to the northwest. Elminster cast some form of magic to allow us to travel faster as we followed Maran like a hunting dog." - Ander Blackwood, in a letter left behind before his death.