My young trader character is thinking of spending some time in the Shard area. I noticed on some maps that there is are grass eels to hunt west of Shard; what are some of the pros and cons to this area? I noticed they're right next to pards and such (quite a threat to me, I would think), and I was wondering if the eel area was separate from the other, nastier beasts of the area?

Player of Kardlo

They're not exactly separate -- pards sometimes wander in to the eels area, but only very rarely. Basically, you won't generate pards if you stay in the eel area, from what I remember, so you only really have to worry about pards if someone is actually hunting and generating pards in the pards area. Which, during the month or two that my commoner hunted in down there, only happened once. She was never killed by any of the pards.

It's a great area -- somewhat bigger than the eels area up in Crossing. It also has a nice swimming stream and a climbing stone, for training foraging (fishing), climbing and swimming.

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