Description
Wandering Oak's Grove is a stand of towering oak trees amidst a wasteland. The Emerald Loop, running from Jigow in the north, ends here where it intersects the Hallowed Path, running from Asarius in the west into the Barbed Fields to the east. The entrance to the grove on the Emerald Loop is well worn by wagon wheels, and there is a wooden sign marked with the holy symbol of the Wildmother and the words "Emerald Loop Caravan Stop". From that entrance to the grove, smoke from the caravan stop's bonfire is visible.
The clearing for the caravan stop is about 125 feet (west to east) by 90 feet (north to south).
If one travels at a slow pace, the grove is ten days south of Jigow, and it takes another five days to travel east to Bazzoxan. At a normal travel pace, it's eight days from Jigow and another four days to Bazzoxan. At a fast pace, it's six days from Jigow, and another three to Bazzoxan.
Background
A treant named Wandering Oak planted this grove, and later she entrusted the care of the forest to Lanata and Robur, a pair of dryads known as the Acorn Sisters. By 686 PD the caravan stop within had become a respected refuge for travelers across the wastes, and by 836 PD had a reputation as a place where the best hunters sold their catches and a place to get the finest mastodon kor'rundl. The Acorn Sisters allowed only dead wood to be used as firewood.