Labyrinth

The Labyrinth is an ancient Underdark maze.

What was once a series of small caves in the upper and middle Northdark are now a 50 by 100 mile area of twisting tunnels built by an ancient minotaur civilisation. The minotaurs remain, now led by baphitaurs, but their civilisation has been long forgotten and they have regressed to a much more bestial culture. The maze itself is a haven for hermits and those not wishing to be found (in fact, until House Jaelre used portals from Blingdenstone to reach Cormanthor, their main encampment was located in the Labyrinth).

Several rents in the earth create unknowably deep chasms in some tunnels thereby restricting access to the other side but otherwise, the maze is remarkably intact. A few routes through the Labyrinth have been mapped and are relatively safe for travellers & merchants to pass through (as safe as anywhere else in the Underdark at least) on their way to or from Skullport and its environs towards the rest of the Northdark. If travellers deviate from these paths it is almost certain that they will run into a tribe of minotaurs or get themselves hopelessly lost.