Cloak Wood

Cloak Wood is an ancient, thickly grown forest on the south end of the Sword Coast. The forest has a rugged relief with many stream-cut ravines shaded by tall specimens of beech, elm, and white pine.

Unlike the cliffs to the north, the Cloak Wood's shoreline theoretically allows a ship to moor and send a small boat to shore for water and supplies. In practice, only desperate mariners dare the wood's population of giant spiders, quicklings, satyrs, stirges, Korred, Hangman trees and other uncommon creatures.

The sages of nearby Candlekeep assert that Cloak Wood contains portals to several other parts of the cosmos. As of 1479 DR however, these portals are believed to be defunct.

Inhabitants
The Cloakwood is known to be full of beasts, monsters and vicious fey, causing most folks avoid the forest.