While many elves will politely correct a person asking of the location of Taur-en-Atar to be <i>all</i> of the forests within Felfatheas, to the rest of the world, the name applies directly to the largest body of trees in the elven kingdom in the southeast, just below Islefield. The depths of this forest are known by only a select few, as the forest is full of dangers to those who do not dwell within it, and indeed, even sometimes to those who do. While there are many points of interest within these fabled forests, there are also monsters and almost alien races living here, disconnected from the civilized portions of the world who do not take lightly to intrusion.
Even the wood elves who make their home in Taur-en-Atar will warn that not all of the forest is not a friendly place, and they warn travelers to stay to the tended paths maintained by the rangers there, for many who stray off the paths never return.
Silif Aldar - The Moonlit Grove
Eithel Calar - The Springs of Silver Light
The moonlit grove, or Silif Aldar in the elven tongue, is a place of tranquil beauty that is said can only be found by light of the moon. It lies deep within the forest, surrounded by ancient oaks and sycamore trees. Concentric rings of stones are placed are various points in the earth, marked with elven runes, and when the silver light of the moon shines down upon them, each comes alight and shines with magical radiance. Elven clerics tend to the grove and the rangers protect it from harm, but how they come and go is a secret kept well guarded.
Garth of the Endless
This ancient tree farm is tended in tandem by elves and gentle treefolk, dryads and sylphs. Trees of every type imaginable, in every stage of life are to be found here, and new breeds are constantly being created as well. The garth is founded on the banks of a river named Aronoded, or Endless, and thus the name.
Eithel Calar, or Springs of Silver Light, is another well-tended location in the forest. Here springs of the purest water rise up amidst an inexplicable ring of boulders buried deep in the woods, forming small pockets and pools of water. When sun or moonlight filters down through the canopy of trees overhead, the water shines with light, leading many to claim the water has magical properties, and perhaps it does. Visitors are welcomed to drink their fill, but are limited in how much they may carry away.
Inn of the Eldest Tree
It is said that all of the forest paths in Taur-en-Atar begin and end at the inn of the Eldest Tree, but that obviously must have some strange meaning beyond the literal explanation, for roads span throughout much of those forests and lead to many places, but the inn is revered by all elves with a love of the forest. Built into, onto, and under a massive silver-leaved oak, the Inn of the Eldest Tree has a great number of rooms inside and is claimed to never be full. Elder Hammond, an old wood elf nearly seven feet tall, runs the inn with his large family of sons, daughters, and grandchildren. Not a single piece of wood has been cut, nor a single nail used to create the inn, only love, magic, and elven knowledge.