The Silent Wood

The Silent Wood is a large forest that covers a swath of land in the Holy Empire of Denarr that gets its name from a type of mushroom that causes a field of sound-dampening around it. Large fields of these mushrooms can render whole areas completely soundless. The mushrooms are harvested by some of the locals from neighboring Weldas where they grind them into salt which is highly addictive but damaging to voices and leads to muteness.

The Western Silent Wood is home to the Faux Kingdom of Kobolds while the Eastern Silent Wood is home to Ancient Elven Catacombs and The Pool of Learning which is locked within a mystical cavern.