The Heart of the Woods is a natural stone amphitheater hidden in a cleft in the bluff deep in the ancient and powerful woods on the western bank of the River Silver just before the Cataracts. As the Wolver Grimly tells Torisen when he takes him there, "this is sacred ground […] to the people of rock and stone, who built Hurlen and carved Eldest Island, who were masters here millennia before your ancestors came". The changers are badly affected, and convulse among the ferns. Jame tries to reach Tori, but loses consciousness.