Tangleroot Gorge

''To the southwest of Stormreach lies the untamed Tangleroot Gorge. Home to many fierce hobgoblin and bugbear tribes, Tangleroot Gorge also contains the infamous Hobgoblin fortress of Splinterskull.''

Tangleroot Gorge is accessed via a caravan lead by Wransyl of Vedykar located in the northwest of House Phiarlan. This will take you to The One-Eared Bugbear Inn, which is the entrance to the Wilderness Adventure Area.

Tangleroot Gorge has a level 4 Wilderness Adventure Area, allowing characters from levels 2 through 7 full XP rewards.
 * Note that while any character can start the chain (with the Level 3 quests), characters must be minimum level 4 to enter the last two (Level 7) quests to complete the chain.

Points of Interest

 * The One-Eared Bugbear Inn
 * Moritt Hastigal the Barkeep provides food and refreshments
 * Brother de Buci the Spirit binder
 * Wransyl of Vedykar provides transport from Tangleroot Gorge back to House Phiarlan Enclave
 * Eremic Quall (Farshifter) gives the quest Seeking Chief Ungurz, precursor to Assault on Splinterskull. After completing the Seeking Chief Ungurz quest he will transport people directly to Chief Ungurz camp if asked.
 * Chief Ungurz's camp
 * Mouth of Splinterskull - quest entrance

NPCs

 * Chief Ungurz - questgiver for Assault on Splinterskull
 * Ungurz's Warrior
 * Jana - lost barmaid

Quests
The Assault on Splinterskull story arc of quests all take place in this zone, in addition to the Rare Encounter / Slayer / Explorer quests. This story arc is often just referred to as "Tangleroot" and rewards House Phiarlan favor.

Due to the wide range of quest levels in the chain, getting full XP in one run is extremely difficult.

Getting to the quests
The Tangleroot map can be a bit confusing at first, with lots of twists, and jungle and ravines splitting the map.

Stepping out of the inn, take a hard left turn and go up the stonework road. At the top turn left (north), onto a dirt path (the stone road itself leads right to a possible rare (wolf) encounter). Keep north on the path, through some guard posts, then follow it as it slowly turns left (west) and drops down to a hanging bridge (cut back before the bridge to your right for a possible rare spider encounter). Go over that bridge and then immediately turn right over another, fighting some guards.

(From the inn, you can also just drop down into the ravine and head north, fighting trogs and wolves, until you reach a flat stone and a fragment of a wall on your right, and go up that path directly to the two bridges. However, you risk a rare giant encounter on the way, across from the trail.)

At the end of the second bridge, take a left (northwest) and go through a heavier guard outpost, bearing generally left (west then southwest). At the second outpost (which may have a rare bugbear encounter), turn left (south) before entering it, and follow that path to Ungurz and the (one) entrance to all the quests.

Reward List
NOTE: Named items that can appear on this quest arc's end reward list will have a 100% chance of appearing on every third completion of the story arc.

Rare Encounters
Each Rare Encounter is worth 350 XP; the bonus for finding all of them is 1575 XP. Subsequent encounters will give 116 XP.
 * Slay Silkweave, spider queen
 * Slay Jarak, bugbear master assassin
 * Slay Xassak, troglodyte hero
 * Rescue Jana, the lost barmaid
 * Slay Kroksh, the wandering giant
 * Kill Clamor, the slayer of hunters
 * Slay Vilesting, the fiendish scorpion
 * Slay Kornak, the tribal mage
 * Slay Gharjat, Commander of Splinterskull

Slayer

 * The instance contains about 108 total mobs per reset/run.

Explorer
Each Explorer is worth 175 XP, the bonus for finding all of them is 568 XP.
 * Video Walkthrough

Lore

 * Find the far side of the broken bridge - Across the gorge you see the One-Eared Bugbear Inn and the other side of the broken bridge.
 * Find the temple ruins - Temple ruins rise out of the riverbed, remnants of some long forgotten civilization.
 * Discover the wolf hunter's fate - You see the grim remains of the wolf hunter, whose felled corpse rests trophy-like in the wolf den.
 * Find the hobgoblin scout post - This hobgoblin scout post is the first line of defense for keeping intruders out of Tangleroot.
 * Find the hobgoblin battle ram - This hobgoblin battle ram blasted open the gateways of many forts and towns, making way for merciless hobgoblin invaders.
 * Find Chief Ungurz' camp - The hobgoblins here do not seem hostile. In fact, their chief beckons you closer.
 * Find the sacrificial site - From the blood and the bones piled here, this is a sacred place to the troglodytes; a sacrificial site.

Dungeon Entrances

 * Find the overgrown fortress - An ancient fortress, half-overwhelmed by the jungle. The scratches and stains around it say bugbears dwell here.
 * Find the webbed caves - These ruins are overgrown with webs. A fetid stench wafts from within.
 * Find the lair of burning skulls - Something more than worgs lives in this cavern. The markings on the stone make that clear.
 * Find the bone-strewn lair - The bones and sloughed-off shells around this cave are sure signs of crawling menaces within.
 * Find the submerged grotto - The river flows from this grotto, as does a horrid stink, which can have only one source: troglodytes!
 * Find the mouth of Splinterskull - You have found the mouth of Splinterskull. The shouts of hobgoblins echo from within.

Collectables
Flowering Plant x 11
 * Before entering the Overgrown Fortress
 * NW corner behind hobgoblin outpost (north side of Gorge)
 * Behind the Battering Ram outpost, beside stairs to top of wall
 * On the path, just after the first Burning Skulls marker
 * Behind Chief Ungurz, beside the structure's door
 * x2 Inside the Submerged Grotto
 * At the northern split in the river
 * At the entrance to the Bone Strewn Lair
 * At the troglodyte Sacrificial Site
 * Alongside the wall of the fortress, across the Gorge from the Ruined Temple

- Adventurer's pack inside the bone-strewn lair