Editing Wodesville (section)

== Wodesville Fog & The Crystal ==
The city is best known for its strange unseen force field, sometimes known as the "fighting fog," which prevented anyone inside Wodesville's borders from physically harming anyone else. Whenever someone attempted physical harm on themselves or another, their mind became filled with a "fog" which made them forget what they were doing, or, at worst, caused them to fall unconscious. Accidental harm, such as stubbing your toe, can still occur, as can mental or emotional harm, such as verbal abuse, as the abuse does not actually injure the target; a spell like ''vicious mockery'', for example, would cause the caster to succumb to the effects of the fog.

Surrounding the city on the ground is a two-inch thick pewter circle, which acted as a physical representation of the end of the magical field's reach. The field was roughly spherical in three-dimensional shape. Because of this natural boundary, Wodesville is a very tight, compact city, built largely upwards, with the center being the tallest point due to the nature of the spherical dome of protection. The only major openings are the five roads into town and the central plaza, which is also fairly small in comparison to other cities' plazas.

In the middle of the central plaza was a large, rose-colored quartz crystal jutting out of the ground at a 28 degree angle toward the west-northwest, about ten feet high and two feet wide at the base, tapering off to a tip about one and a half feet wide at the top. No one is sure of its origin, though in the early 800s of the 5th era it was discovered that there were a network of caverns below the city, and that the crystal could be found protruding through the earth to a distance of up to 1000ft. Notable adventurers from the Redfang Guild known as the Feywild Four traversed these caverns in early 4082 VR (5e 807) and discovered a village of sorts containing firenewts and a large ooze known as a magmaloth, which they dispatched. Moreover, they found that the crystal protruded this far down. The crystal was originally thought to be the magically enchanted power source for the force field. During the Alrennean War, the crystal cracked deeply, leaving thousands terrified that the force field had or was going to stop working. This caused many people to flee the city as Alrenn's forces approached, which was the primary cause of the Massacre at Stonnet Fields. Over the following three decades, the crystal cracked several more times, and eventually in 4108 VR, the crystal exploded completely, revealing that the magical field was actually keeping a sleeping tarrasque at bay. (See History for more.)

Surrounding the crystal at a 20ft radius was a low marble wall, anywhere from 0ft to 8ft tall. This wall was the ruins of the Ivory Tower, an ancient building that predates Wodesville's founding by thousands of years. The only people with any knowledge of the tower were the elder wood elves of Diomed, and they refused to talk about it, other than to accept that a tower made of white marble existed there and that it was very powerful. Redfang Guild founder Peggy Redfang sought to collect pieces of the tower that were strewn around Dorian, and when she died in 4084 VR, the wall was dismantled to construct the mausoleum that holds her body.