Where the Altain Mountain Range and forest of North Pines meet is the territory of a montane forest known as the Montwold Pass Protectorate. The Halfling there lay claim to the stretch of the mountains southern edge and forest from Balient’s Breach (though not including it) to the open area of Claybottom Meadows beyond the NE spur of North Pines that they call “Crippin’s Thumb“.