Redwood Gap is an old-growth forest on the Utraean Peninsula, the multiplayer world in Dungeon Siege.
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Overview[]
Redwood Gap is a stage in the brutal trek from Lang to Quillrabe, connecting the Goblin Warrens and Lang Mire (north) with the Fury Den (south) and the hostile lands beyond it. Within the forest there are three additional points of interest: the Flooded Sanctuary, a Legion displacer that goes back to Lang, and the Pit of Despair.
History[]
The Redwood Gap is an enchanted forest covering the raised terrain between Lang Mire and the Iliarth River. It is inhabited by Fairies and various other magical, night-dwelling monsters including undead Wraiths, who find it easy to move about in the shadows of the giant redwoods. A similar old forest in Ehb was regarded by the people of that land as a death-trap, and Redwood Gap is cast in the same mold.
The magic forest appears to defend itself rather actively and vigorously against human incursion. For example, an effort to mine the area some time in the past failed utterly, and resulted only in the discovery of the sucking void known as the Pit of Despair.
Humans attempted to build a sanctuary in the middle of the region, and this, too, only made the place more dangerous when it devolved into a breeding ground for vicious water creatures. Between the unwelcoming swamplands and the absolute evil of the Furies, the forest remains protected on all fronts against civilization.
Gameplay[]
Redwood Gap is home to very efficient XP-to-damage ratios, in the form of Spiked Dwellers and Forest Phraks, and the difficult monsters in the Flooded Sanctuary also provides lots of XP. Beware, however, of the Fairy/Pixie-triggered Missing Terrain Glitch, as there are many of the creatures present. This can be dealt with preemptively by using AoE attacks on the sylphs before they give you your gamebreaking gift.
Inhabitants[]
- Legionaire Guard
- On patrol near the Goblin Warrens
- Rhod Emell
- Lost merchant NPC, camped out by the footbridge across the Gap
- Sanctuary Keeper
- (Begs the player to clear out the Flooded Sanctuary)
Swamp Area[]
Forest Proper[]
- Forest Phrak
- Spiked Dweller
- Black Wolf
- Dark Wolf
- Forest Darkling
- Larch
- Cyclops
- Wraith
- Wraith Archer
- Blue Drake