GM Post: The settlement of Cloak Wood was built in a cleared expanse, surrounded by forests and bordered to the southeast by a high rocky cliff overlooking a natural deep water harbor. From the warehouses in the middle of the town, a wide shaft had been excavated that led strait down into a small complex of halls and chambers in the rock. This complex opened in three places on the cliff face, perhaps ten feet above the high tide mark. Two large ships were currently pulled up alongside two of these openings, and ramps bridged the gap between them.
The excavated stone from the underground complex, had been used to build a mage tower on the northwest perimeter of where the town's structures stood. This tower rose six stories from the ground and was capped by a smooth, polished
dome. It overlooked the well kept crop fields, which had been cleared of any obstructions out to a distance of at least half a mile from the edge of town's perimeter. These fields bordered the town on all but its southwest side, where the rock that made the cliff gradually became visible.
The road they had come in on, had lain within several yards of the cliff as they approached the town from the southwest, until it had turned north to enter the town from its southern side. Most of the buildings around the perimeter of town, consited of two stories, where archers could be seen haunting their upper windows. There was no wall about the any of the buildings themselves, although masses of brambles and briars filled the spaces under the trees of the forest beyond the fields, providing them with a natural defense that could not be burned away by typical means without the town watch seeing the light of the flames or the smoke they produced.
