Cloakwood Forest

Cloakwood Forest(Sword Coast)
Area
Other names	Cloak Wood
Type	Forest
Requirements
Chapter	Four
Inhabitants
People	Aldeth Sashenstar Amarande Centeol Davaeorn Hareishan Seniyad
Companions	Coran Eldoth Faldorn Yeslick
Items
Treasure	Fallorain's Plate Mighty Oak Robe of the Evil Archmagi Spider's Bane The Paws of the Cheetah
Related quests
Quests	A Hidden Base in the Cloakwood Gurke's Cloak Spiders in the Cloakwood
Notable
Notable	first encounter with Wyverns
Transitions
Areas within	Cloakwood Lodge Cloakwood Nest Cloakwood Druids Cloakwood Wyverns Cloakwood Mines
Other information
Area code	AR1600 (Druids) AR1700 (Wyverns) AR1800 (Mines) AR2100 (Nest) AR2100 (Lodge)

The Cloakwood Forest, otherwise known as The Cloakwood or simply Cloak Wood, is a relatively small forest due south of the city Baldur's Gate, or directly north-east of the citadel Candlekeep. During the game Baldur's Gate, the forest is composed of five areas on the World Map which cannot be explored by Gorion's Ward prior to Chapter Four, and must then be subsequently traversed in order to advance the main story-line. Many side quests may be discovered and completed while making this journey.

The first area is entered by heading west from the Friendly Arm Inn, with each subsequent area only reachable from the previous area; there are no shortcuts once the areas are fully explored, and upon reaching the 'heart' of the forest, one must travel back the way they came. Thus, a single one-way trip takes 64 hours, and is seldom completed without being interrupted at least once by a waylaid encounter.

Individual areas

• First Cloakwood — A woodland with a hunting lodge; spiders and wolves and bears.
• Second Cloakwood — A nest of Spiders; complete with Web traps.
• Third Cloakwood — A druid grove; pointedly made up of fanatical Shadow Druids.
• Fourth Cloakwood — A Wyvern cave; the deepest depths of the forest.
• Cloakwood Mine — An Iron Throne base; ancient iron mine.

Companions

Four potential companions can be found within the Cloakwood:

• Coran; Elf, Fighter / Thief, Chaotic-Good, found in the first area, excels at archery, with a side quest.
• Eldoth; Human, Bard, Neutral-Evil, found in the third area, who is required for recruiting Skie.
• Faldorn; Human, Druid, True-Neutral, also found in the third area, as she's a Shadow Druid.
• Yeslick; Dwarf, Fighter / Cleric, Lawful-Good, found on Cloakwood Mine level 2.

Gallery

Branwen casts Chaos of Battle during a waylay. Party members get combat bonuses (yellow), while the three Ettercaps in range get combat penalties (purple). (BG:EE)

Coran finds a trap the last second before the party steps on it (but the Ettercaps had already been defeated thankfully) (BG:EE)

A Wyvern attacking during a waylay in Cloakwood

External links

• Cloak Wood on the Forgotten Realms Wiki, a wiki for the Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting Forgotten Realms.