So, this has been plaguing my mind for some time, and now that I'm writing up my fan fiction in this area of the game, I can't help but think about it again.
What's up with the Decrepit Village? Who lived there? When? Was it way back in 1372 when the drow fought with the Selunites? Was it more recent?
I originally thought that the deep gnomes lived there, and the duergar attacked them and took them as slaves, or maybe the drow did. But now, with Grymforge, that is not true. The deep gnomes are from Baldur's Gate, come to Grymforge for a special mission. The duergar took them as slaves after they also came to Grymforge.
The myconids obviously dwelled also along the shores, for when the duergar showed up to capture Thulla who was escaping from them, they killed a lot of myconids. Glut's circle was... um... where exactly? Was its circle also in the Decrepit Village? Was it across the lake somewhere and the duergar attacked it weeks or months earlier? When Glut talks about calling out to Spaw, it sounds like it was quite some time ago, so if the duergar were only attacking the myconids because they were trying to recapture Thulla, why did they kill Glut's circle and wipe it out previously? How long have those duergar been warring with the myconids and how long have they been in the area?
But who used to live in the village? I couldn't find anything that gave me any clues about this? Was it gnomes? Was it dwarves? Was it drow? Was it Selunites from 120 years earlier?
And how long has Blurg and Omeluum been with the myconids in the Underdark there? By the gods! They met Lenore and invited her to join the Society of Brilliance, but she hasn't been in that area for 11-12 years, and she was only there about 13-14 years ago in 1479. So have they been there in that particular Underdark area for 12+ years? Do they not go anywhere else ever? If they did, why didn't thy know that Lenore's been gone for 12 years?
And how the heck do Derryth, the dwarf lady, and her husband, get into the Underdark to pick mushrooms? We're having a hard time trying to find our way out, but they're just there, picking mushrooms, acting like they go there on a semi-regular basis to do so. Do they have some secret way in? If so, why can't we ask about it?
And why is there a Zhentarim stash in that area? How the flip do the Zhents get into that area? Is it supposed to be from their secret hideout near Waukeen's Rest? If so, that's east of the Temple of Selune, but the Temple of Selune's Underdark entrance is in the southeast corner of the Underdark map. So wouldn't that mean that the Zhent hideout is further east and wouldn't be north of the Selune Temple? And why are there minotaurs down there just roaming about? Are they purposely there to guard the Zhent stash?
And why is the phase spider lair a way into this particular area of the Underdark when it is east, also, of the temple? Yet you can drop down from the Whispering Depths into the Underdark area of the map.
And... um... the Festering Cove. It is UNDER Ebonlake and yet it has a big lake of its own, almost like an underground ocean,...with LIGHT at the end of the tunnel. A big gleaming sunlight on the horizon beyond. ???
And lastly, was the Spectator turning drow into statues back in 1372 or is that drow party recent? According to one of the documents you find, it mentions statues near the Selunite Outpost, and that was back in 1372. However, the only statues we come across are present-day drow on patrol who got attacked by the Spectator. So which is it? Has the Spectator been around for 120 years, or is he a recent addition, and did he turn people into statues back 120 years ago AND presently?
Nothing in the Underdark is making sense. Nothing.
