The dark wood on the northern shore of Lake Brey is called the Harrowcrowns. At the birth of Galifar, one great forest stretched from the Blackcaps to Scions Sound, including the woods now called the Greenhaunt, the Imistil Forest, and the Thornwood as well as the Harrowcrowns. Settlers through the ages have cleared most of the land for farming, and several small Thrane villages now surround the Harrowcrowns, despite the monsters that periodically seem to erupt from the forest and ravage the countryside for miles around.
Savage goblins raided out from the Harrowcrowns in 465 YK, leading eventually to the discovery of an ancient Dhakaani ruin in the heart of the forest. A team of scholars from Flamekeep never returned from its exploration of the ruins, and the ruins’ location has since been lost.
Ettercaps and giant spiders, crazed dryads and treants, bloodthirsty gnolls, and twisted foulspawn are among the monsters that have emerged from the forest to ravage the surrounding villages. Some have speculated that a planar connection—to Thelanis or Dolurrh, or perhaps the mad realm of Xoriat—is responsible for the plague of monsters, but it seems more likely that these creatures are native to the forest itself.