You’ve probably heard of the phrase, ‘A stretch of bad road,’ so this can be best described as ‘a stretch of bad river,’ not by the flora creating all of this shade, but of the eerie feeling that they're being watched by malevolent eyes. Especially if the traveler is not a full-blooded elf.

If you don’t have to go through this part of the river, you don’t go, preferring instead to go around on road to Julkoun or another city up river.

The Laughing Hollow will have a place in “The Fall of Illefarn,” (Part of Ghosts of Dragonspear Castle) if applicable. Otherwise, have it be an eerie place that no non-elf would dare to go. Perfect for Eldreth Veluuthra shenanigans. If the party manages to deal with the Eldreth Veluuthra group in this region, Duke Floshin will take over the region and make it a bit more non-elf friendly.

Another item to fill in here, which I’ll probably be using in my recreation of Scourge of the Sword Coast is shown in Ghosts of Dragonspear Castle. It’ll be with a rework of an 1st Edition campaign, Under Illifran, which I’ll use to link Scourge of the Sword Coast to the updated Dead in Thay dungeon available in Tales of the Yawning Portal.