any lore you could share about monasteries located on high mountaintops, or on top of large tree’s where elves train somwhere in Faerun? Or someplace similar? Thank you sir! 1) Sure! Most monasteries are by nature remote and kept private (that is, not spoken of, outside clergies), so “the wider Realms” learns little about them, and slowly. By “remote,” I mean mountaintops in Sossal, atop crags in the Rauvin Mountains and near Turnstone Pass.
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 19, 2018
2) Candlekeep is of course the best-known monastery, and an exception to both the “difficult terrain” and “remote and inaccessible” prevalence of such establishments. Almost unknown to most folk of Faerun are a cluster of monasteries, each dedicated to a different deity,..
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 19, 2018
3)…that stand atop tors or nestled into steep, exposed-bedrock hillsides around the headwaters of the Delimibyr, where that river is about to flow out of the hills northeast of Hellgate Keep. On Mike Schley’s superb map of the Silver Marches region, for the War of Everlasting…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 19, 2018
4)…Darkness 2012 D&D Encounters, most of them are east of the last “s” in “Turnstone Pass” on both sides of the river, down to about where the square for “Stream” is, in the map legend. They (and prospecting) are the reasons for the existence of the road running from…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 19, 2018
5)…Sundabar that seems to dead-end in the middle of nowhere (in fact, it turns from something wagons can traverse to a web of mule-pack-trails fanning out through the hills, and ending at mines or miners’ camps, or at monasteries). Another cluster of monasteries can be found…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 19, 2018
6)…in the Cloven Mountains near Thornwood. And far better-known are the monasteries on the slopes of the Aphrunn Mountains associated with the Emerald Enclave. However, if you’re specifically looking just for treetop elven holy communities, these tend to be small, VERY “secret,”
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 19, 2018
7)…and found in such places as Shilmista (at the south end of the forest, just north of Riatavin); the southernmost point of the western half of the Gulthmere Forest (where it juts into a bight in the mountain range bordering it to the south); in the heart of the Reaching Woods
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 19, 2018
8)…(at about the midpoint of the east-of-the-River-Reaching portion, not far from the river itself); in the High Forest on the east bank of the river that runs from the Star Mounts east and south to join the Delimbiyr upriver of Loudwater, about a day’s travel (by experienced…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 19, 2018
9)…foresters) north from trees-edge; and deep in the heart of the Yuirwood, at about its east-west midpoint. There are many others, but they are smaller or not in the part of Faerun most covered in print so far. Hope this helps!
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 19, 2018
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