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The Great Forest (also called the Old Forest) is an immensely forested region north of the city of Oar. It features a wandering, fast-moving river called the Great Tragic River, which empties into a rarely-mentioned sea.

Before Croaker's Annals[]

The White Rose, who led the successful rebellion against the Dominator's empire, commanded her forces in the Great Forest. The final battle was fought when the Great Comet was at its closest approach in the sky over the forest. After the White Rose's victory, she imprisoned the Dominator, his wife the Lady, and the Ten Who Were Taken alive (but immobile) inside the Barrowland, a fortified and magically-guarded burial ground within the Great Forest. The Eternal Guard was established as the permanent garrison for the Barrowland, and a small town would develop around them, tucked away within the dense woodland.

The Books of the North[]

The Great Forest was visited by the Black Company in Shadows Linger, while they were in the service of the Lady's Empire. Some Company men visited the place again at least 6 years later in The White Rose, now enemies of the Empire, in service to the New White Rose Rebellion.

The remote human tribes native to the Great Forest suffered badly when Toadkiller Dog forced them to serve the Dominator during the Battle of the Barrowland

The Silver Spike[]

The Great Forest was a prominent location in The Silver Spike. The four spike thieves spent many weeks there during their quest to steal the silver spike. The tribes of the Forest suffered again when Toadkiller Dog forced them to serve the Limper (the "wicker man"). They marched south, sacking the reduced Eternal Guard camp, and exited the Forest into Oar where the bloodshed continued. Later, the spike thieves left the forest and entered the ruins of Oar.

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