Longwood
Longwood is a village in Northwest Faerûn in the Neverwinter Region.
Demographics
Longwood is a bustling, multicultural settlement with a large gnome population.
Infrastructure
Longwood is a lush area with houses nestled under trees and a multilevel network of roads and paths above the ground level. There are also caves built into tree roots in the surrounding area.
History
The history of Longwood is tied to the history of Golden Coast College. Before the founding of the college, the location was sparesely populated by families of forest gnomes.
For more information, visit the History section of the Golden Coast College page.
Geography
Longwood is bordered by coastal terrain to the west and mountainous and then desert terrain to the east.
Natural Resources
In Longwood and the surrounding area, the Weave of magic acts in a unique way due to an unusually-high amount of nearby crossings into the Feywild.
Gravity-defying arch shapes form naturally in certain locations. These star arches are made from spokes of natural materials that float in an arch shape, with a precise inner curve and a rough and irregular outer arch. They can stand straight or lie at an angle, and they can be small or enormous, whole or broken, grown over or mysteriously clean. Their irregular spokes evoke the radiating lines of a shining star.
The star arches are a mystery. In most cases, the arches simply float inexplicably; they're silent, immovable and inert. Despite this, many people report seeing an arch appear to them at a critical juncture in their lives, helping them understand a lesson or answer a burning question in their mind. Some scholars believe each arch marks a place of great magic, such as the site of a great mage’s birth or the location of a time-lost spell. Other folk believe these arches are connected with the colossal Fey creatures called "archaics" in some way. Some residents have even seen an arch come to life with magic in an archaic’s presence.
In other nearby locations, the Weave of magic can itself become knotted and tangled, creating a phenomenon called "snarls." At these places, spells can be amplified or distorted in unpredictable ways. This phenomenon matters for Golden Coast College because a luminous snarl is situated in the Hall of Oracles in the university’s monumental library, the Biblioplex.
Both snarls and star arches are subjects of magical research for students and faculty who study wild and dead magic zones, floating earth motes, and other weird locales.
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