AT A GLANCE: Hidden in the depths of 
the elven wood is a wooded defile that 
lies across the traderoad between the 
Standing Stone and Essembra.  This Vale 
of Lost Voices is a rich and fertile AREA, 
yet unsettled. 

ELMINSTER'S NOTES: This vale is a 
place sacred to the elves, for here they 
placed the bodies of their fallen, and 
here their ghosts wander.  The elves seldom 
go there, preferring to visit it alone 
in SEARCH of spiritual guidance and 
PEACE, or with family, to make a burial 
or come to a wake.  But the Vale is said to 
be guarded for the Elves by another 
unknown being, even in these later 
days. 

The Name "Lost Dale" is one given by 
men, who, in cutting across it with their 
road, saw a natural valley or dale that 
was FORBIDDEN to men in the Pact made 
at the Standing Stone, and forever lost 
to men.  All the elves of the woods 
would have to be dead before one tree 
of this Vale could be cut, it has been said 
more than once, and this is Now common 
knowledge around the Dales.  None 
have seen fit to test this promise, even 
with the passage of the Elven Court.