Cloakport

Cloakport is a secret, private port tucked deep in a protected inlet of the northeast corner of Cloakwood Bay. It was established by the Moonstars in 1381 through the Cloakwood Accord, a treaty between the Moonstar's Travenhurst Repository in Beregost and the Silvanus-worshipping Druids of Cloakwood Lodge, as led by Archdruid Seniyad.

The port is generally off-limits to all but those who are invited to dock there, and its existence is kept largely secret by the terms of the Accord. It serves the Moonstars as a waypoint for ship's travel to-and-from the Candlekeep-Beregost region, which has no port between Baldur's Gate and Athkatla suitable for docking large ships. The “port” is little more than a large pier and barracks compound disguised to look like a small fishing hamlet of about 40 fishermen, most of whom are actually rangers, soldiers, and paramilitary sailors in the Moonstars' employ. The pier is just large enough for a galley to dock; however, the few ships which dock there are no bigger than a caravel. A smaller, secondary dock can host up to two pinnaces.

Cloakport boasts no public inn nor tavern, no traditional marketplace, and no public services, as it functions more as a base than as a functional settlement. At the shore's end of the pier, there's a large dock house, a small, private lodging house, a pair of warehouses, and a stable. There is also a squat "lighthouse-style" watchtower rising from a cannon turret adjacent to a barracks - all of which are artfully camouflaged with green and brown paint to blend in with the edge of the forest behind them. The port has a total of six large cannon turrets, all of which are cloaked by an invisibility spell to conceal the military purpose of the port, but which are ready to sink any ship that comes within range should they ignore any stern warnings to vacate.

Cloakport is owned and operated by the Moonstars, but its size and "allowed uses" are limited by the terms of the Cloakwood Accord, an agreement they made with a group of local druids. A trail extends inland from Cloakport connecting it with Cloakwood Lodge, about 10 miles east. This trail is meant for the private use of Moonstars and the druids, and trespassers are not tolerated.