
In an attempt to attain the treants' favor, Tanthul gifted them with a shadowstorm seed to aid in the defense of the forest against the phaerimm and other threats. Here they were confronted by the local treants, represented by their ruler Fuorn, who denied them access to the woods as they found Tanthul's shadow magic unnatural. In the Year of the Unstrung Harp, 1371 DR, Melegaunt Tanthul and his associates entered the forest for the purpose of traveling through its shadow paths and thereby quickly visit the ruins of Dekanter. The immortal druid of Silvanus, Pheszeltan, inhabited the deepest reaches of the forest and only spoke to people capable of reaching him, but offered advice to those capable of doing so. įey creatures were believed to inhabit the forest, among them sprites, korreds, and unicorns. These treants, in turn, were aware of the nearby populations of phaerimm and knew of their continuous historic attempts to invade the forest. The forest was inhabited by a large population of treants, led by their "king" Fuorn, indeed believed to be the greatest collection of their kind in the North. The forest's shadows contained an easy area of access to the Plane of Shadow. The thick foliage of the forest was cast in continual shadow. The forest was made up of overgrown and ancient oak, walnut, and shadowtop trees.

The Marsh of Chelimber was south of the forest, and to the north were the Lonely Vale and the Graycloak Hills. The forest lay in a vale between Evereska's Shaeradim to the east, and the Graypeak Mountains forty miles to the west.
