New characters walk here: the portal at the end of the Newbie School opens on Solace Square, and recall brings you back to it. From further away, a carriage or an airship will set you down at the station outside the village.
Solace
The village in the vallenwood trees, where most adventurers take their first steps.
- Levels
- All levels: a town, and a safe place to start
- Next to
- Crystalmir Lake, The Infected Forest, Otik's Cellar, The Red Moon Festival, Road East of Solace, The Road South of Solace, Solace Training Pit, Woodland Grove
- Size
- About 140 rooms
- Built by
- Eldrad, Hiddukel, Reorx, Page, Dalamar, Shell, Shelly, Zeph, Sithicus, Sargonnas, Tanis
Solace is built in the branches of its vallenwoods. The houses, the shops and the inn sit some fifty feet up, joined by the wooden bridge-walks the village is known for, and spiral staircases wind down from them to the ground.
Down below it is a plain place. Solace Square is mostly bare dirt with a few round stones laid against the mud, and Vallenwood Lane is the only cobbled road, running from the north edge of the village to the south. The stables, the blacksmith and the Master's Hut, where skills and spells are practised, are on the ground.
The Inn of the Last Home is up in one of the largest trees. Otik keeps the rooms and Tika keeps the bar, and it is where travellers sit down to eat, hear the news and find company for the road.
Getting there
What you see when you arrive:
Solace Square For the center of the village, Solace Square is not a very big place. A few round stones have been placed to try and alleviate the problem of mud, but they are scattered and the ground is mostly plain dirt. A few people are here enjoying the day and talking of times when Krynn was peaceful. [ Exits: n e s w ]
Before you go
- The inn, the bank and the post office are all up on the bridge-walks. If you can't find something on the ground, climb a spiral staircase.
- Buy food and drink before you leave. The grocery and the bread pantry are up in the trees, and the blacksmith's weapon and armor shops are on the ground.
- For a first fight, the Solace Training Pit and Woodland Grove suit levels 1 to 4. Crystalmir Lake, to the west, comes after that.
- The boards at the trading post on the bridge-walks carry notices, trades and news. Read them when you arrive.
In the game's words
Solace is a small village nestled high in Vallenwood trees.
From help zone solace in game.
Map of Solace
The village in the vallenwood trees, where the Newbie School's portal and recall bring you. The inn, the bank and the post office are up on the bridge-walks; the lettered stairs join the two maps.
Point at or tap a room to see its name.
- Streets and open ground
- Indoors
- Fields
- Stairs to the other map, the same letter at each end
- A way out, and where it leads
- A place, listed below
- More rooms of the same place
Rest and money
- 1Inn Otik, The Guestcheckrent a room to keep your things while you're away
- 2Bank Dorian, Dorian's Depository
- 3Post office Grizzt, A Small Mail Roomsend and collect mail
Shops
- 4Weapons Kren, The Blacksmith Weapon Emporium
- 5Armor Durer, The Blacksmith Armor Emporium
- 6Food and drink Tika, The Bar
- 7Food and drink Arnold, The Solace Bread Pantry
- 8Magic Mordeth, A Mystical Treetop Home
- 9General goods Omar, Omar's Grocery
- 10General goods a small boy selling newspapers, The Library of Solace
- 11General goods Hurist, Hurist's Treasures and Oddities
Training
- 12Guildmaster Brime, The Master's Hutpractice your skills and spells
- 13Smith Jindrik, a black-bearded hill dwarf, The Solace Blacksmithenhance your weapons and armor
Boards
- 14Boards A Small Trading Post, The Solace Crime Board, General Notices, News From Other Worlds, The Policy Board, The Bug Board
Stairs between the maps
- AUp from At the Bottom of a Spiral Staircase to Atop a Spiral Staircase
- BUp from At the Bottom of a Spiral Staircase to Atop a Spiral Staircase
- CUp from The Bottom of a Rope to The Kitchen
- DUp from At The Bottom of a Large Vallenwood Tree to The Landing Before the Inn
- EUp from At the Bottom of a Spiral Staircase to Atop a Spiral Staircase
- FUp from At the Bottom of a Spiral Staircase to Atop a Spiral Staircase
- GUp from The Solace Blacksmith to Atop a Spiral Staircase