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The Agaden Reach is a remote place within the Rang'Shada Mountains surrounded by jagged peaks, like a wreath of thorns, as well as a menacing, forbidding woods, meant to keep all away. Those who went in Agaden Reach never came out. It is rumored that not even a wizard will go into the Reach. While close to Agaden Reach, the snow-covered peaks around it can be seen shining brightly in the high thin air. Agaden Reach is the home of the witch woman, Shota and her companion, Samuel. Jump to: navigation, search The RangShada Mountains are a fictional mountain range in the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. ... Jump to: navigation, search A wizard is a fictional class of people in the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. ... Jump to: navigation, search Samuel is a fictional character in the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. ...

As one travels toward the Agaden Reach, the woods become thicker and darker and the trees bigger and closer together. The trail also becomes rocky and hard to walk over. The closer one gets, the less traveled the trail is as it begins to disappear into the thick forest. Calls of strange birds echo from the murk. Eventually, the trail starts climbing up steep switchbacks, and soon comes out of the trees, onto an open trail across the rock, climbing steadily toward the jagged, snow-covered peaks. Skirting the bottom of the snowcaps, the path leads over the bottom fringes of the snow, which is wet, heavy, and hard to walk through. Unless one knows the way through the pass, it can take days to make it over the peaks (instead of less than a day). Cold wind whips through the gaps in the rocks, pulling away long thin clouds of travelers' breath in the frigid air. As one gets near Agaden Reach, the path descends again into a dark wood and the heat becomes oppressive. Large trees surround the path all about, and trailers of moss woft down. Boggy patches with vapor rise from the black, murky water, and pairs of eyes watch and blink from the shadows. Hollow calls echo through the mist and vapor. The smell is rank, like the Skow Swamp. Dark forms keep to the shadows in the woods and the thick brush, sometimes letting out whoops and howls. Some stay in the treetops, just out of sight. Although you can't see them, one can always hear them, scratching, clawing, whistling, and clicking. The Skow Swamp is a fictional location in the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. ...

Some of the trees within the Agaden Reach can be dangerous to travelers. The twisted roots of one of these squat, fat-trunked trees extends onto the path, whipping out, knotting around, and pulling in anything that comes in contact with them, under the tangled mass. The closer one gets to the Agaden Reach, the darker the woods around it gets. Dead branches twist together overhead, and mist occasionally drifts across the path. Sometimes the mist twirls and spins at the passing of creatures darting by, near but unseen.