The Grove Burnings - Revision history

Wvaske: Add map section: the ledger sites on the Sword Coast and North maps

2026-08-29T18:23:30Z

Add map section: the ledger sites on the Sword Coast and North maps

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			=== On the map ===
			The eight sites, as the Archives place them. Three lie on the [[Map of the Sword Coast\|Sword Coast]] and five in [[Map of the North\|the North]]; the ledger gives some only by region.

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			{{Map:The North\|filter=grove-burning\|layout=mini\|max-width=720}}

Wvaske: Link each culling site to its new page; the archives have dated the burning of Narthalas to 1447 DR

2026-08-18T21:35:29Z

Link each culling site to its new page; the archives have dated the burning of Narthalas to 1447 DR

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	! Survivors		! Survivors
	\|-		\|-
	\| '''Starspire Grove'''		\| '''[[Starspire Grove]]'''
	\| East of the High Moor, foothills of the Greypeak Mountains		\| East of the High Moor, foothills of the Greypeak Mountains
	\| 759 DR		\| 759 DR
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	\| None known		\| None known
	\|-		\|-
	\| '''The House of the Still Pool'''		\| '''[[The House of the Still Pool]]'''
	\| Near Silverymoon		\| Near Silverymoon
	\| 1132 DR		\| 1132 DR
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	\| None known		\| None known
	\|-		\|-
	\| '''The Drowned Sisters'''		\| '''[[The Drowned Sisters]]'''
	\| The Lizard Marsh, south of Daggerford		\| The Lizard Marsh, south of Daggerford
	\| 1201 DR		\| 1201 DR
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	\| None known		\| None known
	\|-		\|-
	\| '''Cloudcrown Vale'''		\| '''[[Cloudcrown Vale]]'''
	\| Foothills of the Spine of the World		\| Foothills of the Spine of the World
	\| 1264 DR		\| 1264 DR
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	\| None known		\| None known
	\|-		\|-
	\| '''Whitepetal Enclave'''		\| '''[[Whitepetal Enclave]]'''
	\| The coast north of Luskan		\| The coast north of Luskan
	\| 1310 DR		\| 1310 DR
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	\| None known		\| None known
	\|-		\|-
	\| '''The Dreaming Bower'''		\| '''[[The Dreaming Bower]]'''
	\| Neverwinter Wood		\| Neverwinter Wood
	\| 1359 DR		\| 1359 DR
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	\| None known		\| None known
	\|-		\|-
	\| '''Thornwild Court'''		\| '''[[Thornwild Court]]'''
	\| The Misty Forest		\| The Misty Forest
	\| 1402 DR		\| 1402 DR
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	\| None known		\| None known
	\|-		\|-
	\| '''Narthalas'''		\| '''[[Narthalas]]'''
	\| The Glimmerwood		\| The Glimmerwood
	\| ~~''unrecorded''~~		\| 1447 DR
	\| A village burned end to end; officially a rogue dragon's rampage. The files hold almost nothing — the fire was thorough.		\| A village burned end to end; officially a rogue dragon's rampage. The files hold almost nothing — the fire was thorough.
	\| None known		\| None known

Wvaske: Align Starspire Grove date with the canonical 759 DR assault (per Skarhald Clan history)

2026-08-18T21:20:30Z

Align Starspire Grove date with the canonical 759 DR assault (per Skarhald Clan history)

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	\| '''Starspire Grove'''		\| '''Starspire Grove'''
	\| East of the High Moor, foothills of the Greypeak Mountains		\| East of the High Moor, foothills of the Greypeak Mountains
	\| ~~c. 750~~ DR		\| 759 DR
	\| The holy grove of the Skarhald orc clan burned in a single night; the clan eradicated in the seasons that followed. Accounts of the era name '''Balagos the Flame Tyrant'''.		\| The holy grove of the Skarhald orc clan burned in a single night; the clan eradicated in the seasons that followed. Accounts of the era name '''Balagos the Flame Tyrant'''.
	\| None known		\| None known

Wvaske: New player-facing page: Harper intelligence on seven centuries of dragon attacks on fey-touched sites, delivered via Gootcha's Harper intelligence book. All entries: no known survivors.

2026-08-09T13:47:47Z

New player-facing page: Harper intelligence on seven centuries of dragon attacks on fey-touched sites, delivered via Gootcha's Harper intelligence book. All entries: no known survivors.

New page

== The Grove Burnings ==
''The following intelligence has appeared in [[Gootcha]]'s Harper book — the magical volume given to her on the road from the Wyrmwood ([[Session 38 - Now We Have a Hoard|Session 38]]), which receives findings from the [[Harpers|Harper]] spy network as they are made.''

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''To the bearer —''

''Your inquiries touching the [[Prophecy of the Thorn-Born Star]] have reopened files most of us hoped were closed. What follows is every attack in our archives that fits the shape: a dragon, a site touched by the fey or keeping old foretellings, and nothing taken that a dragon should want. Each was recorded in its day as a rampage, a flood, a storm, a hard winter. Read together, they are none of those things. They are precise.''

''We are researching every one of these anew, alongside the wizards of the [[Arcane Brotherhood]]. More will appear in these pages as we find it.''

''— the Archives, on behalf of the Ways Harp''

=== The Ledger ===
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"
! Site
! Region
! Year
! What the records say
! Survivors
|-
| '''Starspire Grove'''
| East of the High Moor, foothills of the Greypeak Mountains
| c. 750 DR
| The holy grove of the Skarhald orc clan burned in a single night; the clan eradicated in the seasons that followed. Accounts of the era name '''Balagos the Flame Tyrant'''.
| None known
|-
| '''The House of the Still Pool'''
| Near Silverymoon
| 1132 DR
| An elven scriptorium and seer-house — keepers of transcribed visions — burned so hot the stone glazed. Nothing of its library was ever recovered; one salvager's inventory suggests some writings left the house ''before'' the fire.
| None known
|-
| '''The Drowned Sisters'''
| The Lizard Marsh, south of Daggerford
| 1201 DR
| Three fey-touched druid circles and their grove-temple swallowed by black water in a night. Recorded as a flood. The field agent's note reads: ''"the water burned — the stones are scarred as if by acid."''
| None known
|-
| '''Cloudcrown Vale'''
| Foothills of the Spine of the World
| 1264 DR
| A vale of sky-watchers who read the stars and kept star-charts of things to come, destroyed by a storm out of a clear sky. The treants that warded them were found split by lightning.
| None known
|-
| '''Whitepetal Enclave'''
| The coast north of Luskan
| 1310 DR
| An enclave tending a warm-spring glade that never froze — frozen solid in a single midsummer night, every soul within.
| None known
|-
| '''The Dreaming Bower'''
| Neverwinter Wood
| 1359 DR
| A circle of dream-seers found dead without a mark on them, the bower withered to spore-dust. The agent who filed the report noted a lingering ''"taste of pine sap and rot"'' — and that those who later slept near the ruin did not wake.
| None known
|-
| '''Thornwild Court'''
| The Misty Forest
| 1402 DR
| A fey crossing and the court that kept it, burned end to end. Hunting parties that season reported ''"wings against the moon"'' — no dragon was ever identified.
| None known
|-
| '''Narthalas'''
| The Glimmerwood
| ''unrecorded''
| A village burned end to end; officially a rogue dragon's rampage. The files hold almost nothing — the fire was thorough.
| None known
|}

=== The Archives' Assessment ===
* Seven centuries, one shape: every site was '''fey-touched, prophecy-keeping, or home to seers'''. Nothing was taken — no hoard, no ransom, no territory held. These were not rampages. They were '''cullings'''.
* '''Five killing methods recur''': fire, corrosive water, storm, cold, and a poison that kills through sleep. We do not think this is coincidence.
* Every file closes with the same line: ''no known survivors''. We are no longer certain every file is right. If any survivor exists, we will find them.

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