Wait, WAIT…hold up. How does Conyberry, an insignificant backwater consisting of “around a dozen houses standing close to the eastern side of Neverwinter Wood,” find its way onto a map of the Sword Coast?

When writing Volo’s Guide To The North, Volothamp Geddarm saw fit to make an entry for Conyberry and include it on the map when most villages the size of Conyberry don’t even have a name, let alone a marker on the map.

Why in the world would anyone know about the village of Conyberry?

Well, settlements that are so small as to not have a name or a marker on the map likely don’t have anything as fascinating as a banshee serving as a guardian. Someone even wrote a book about Conyberry and its ghost. So, as far as villages go, I suppose Conyberry is in a category of its own. Even if it’s just a ruin.

I guess I’m pointing this out because there are probably thousands of villages like Conyberry throughout The North. Only, no one has ever heard of them or found them on a map because, unlike Conyberry, they don’t have an actual banshee as a mascot, and their small folk haven’t been murdered and/or carried off by a tribe of lycanthropic barbarians.

Just something to consider when the characters are out and about on their adventures. If they’re in some remote locale where there’s not a lot on the map, it doesn’t necessarily mean there’s not a village somewhere nearby.

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