Kellen Rock

A mesa and surrounding scrubby farmland on the northwestern outskirt of the town of Smokeshadow, Kellen Rock lies about two miles north and west of Smokeshadow, five miles south of the main road, and a little over nine miles southeast of Phandalin.

During the years from 178 to 201 PR, the mesa and its surroundings in an approximately ten mile radius was home to a trio of rangers — Sirac Silverhair, an elf and by far the oldest of the three — was mentor to Deornoth Sellguard, a human and his wife, the half-elf Gallidril Everleaf.

Together, these three rangers built a sizeable lodge and attracted a group of followers known as the Kellenguard. In the more than two decades of their purview, monster attacks and banditry in the locale sharply declined, and the Kellenguard were well respected by folk in Smokeshadow, Phandalin, Dolecherry, and the various thorpes and hamlets of the Soot Mountain area.