Cloak Wood

Cloak Wood, also stylized as Cloakwood, was an ancient, thickly grown forest in the Western Heartlands region on the south end of the Sword Coast.

Description
Cloak Wood was a thickly overgrown ancient forest. The forest was full of elm, beech, felsul, and hiexel trees. The forest had a rugged landscape with many stream-cut ravines shaded by tall specimens of beech, elm, and white pine.

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

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

History
In 1376 DR, Cloak Wood was the base of operations of the Red Fang Marauders. It also housed their main base, Felldane Manor. Due to its sheer size, it was also the home to Zarad's Clocktower, the place where Ysuran Auondril learned his necromantic spells. It is also the place where Ysuran became a Shadow Adept after killing Zarad Duskmarrow.

Inhabitants
Cloak Wood was known to be full of beasts, monsters, and vicious fey, causing most folks avoid the forest.