1st The Caves:
Inside the caves, you will notice many boulders and fire pyres, and torches. You can click on most(99%) of the rocks, and they will spin, making the door sound(a know the sound when a door is opened) and they stay spinned for 11sec, then spin back(just like a door opening..it stays open for 11secs) The Fire Pyres and the torches that are on the ground do the same, the ones on the walls do nothing.
If you head to the end of the caves where you find the Blacksmith and barkeep, You will find a Forge and a Brew Barrel. When entering this room from the cave, go straight to the boulder wall, and start clicking the boulders, you will get them to open up and let you pass through to the barkeep while avoiding the leader(which ever one is spawned at the time). Go upto each the barkeep and the smith and use sneak if need be to be able to purchase and sell to them.
The smith carries a few weapons, a shield, and a pair of pants. The shield isnt bad, 10ac medium size costs 3pp. The gor is a 5dm 30del(it think dont quote on the stats) ranged marble, he also has a 1hb and a 1hs axe. The pants are 5ac 8wieght. The smith also sells the Slook 6dm 39del 1h peirce primary only(guard yuk yuk, a gor taku guard outside the caves tell you to use a slook to kill the shak dratha). The barkeep has 3 different kinds of booze(strong i might add) and 2 kinds of food. Holpa Mlech is a Hearty Meal, looks like a pie, costs roughly 3sil each(cheap meal!) and the other one i cant recall the name, but costs roughly 2silver each, and is a meal.
The ShakDratha smith and Barkeep do not sell anything, they arent merchants. I have noticed on 2 occasions that the Gor Taku Smith is replaced with a named smith, Gak Tob the Smith. He sells the same items, doesnt respond to hails.
More on Guard Yuk Yuk. He is the only Gor Taku i have gotten to speak. If you Hail him he will you to "Go take a slook and pierce the heart of a shak dratha, this will make the gor taku very happy, go now, GO NOW!" Then Respond to him saying "What Slook" all he says is "Slook is for pokey pokey" He doesnt want a slook, nor does he do anythign when you give him 1 bloody shak dratha heart or condensed shadows.
In the middle of the caves, on the lower lvl you will find a Lodi Kai camp, Poachers and Traders are around here...recommend lvl 15 min to solo here. There is a ramp in lodikai room to lead to the surface.
The Caves have 2 entrances to go to the other side of the mountains, and 1 tunnel to the Paludal Caverns. Chitterlings, and Stonediggers(beetle like mob) wander about in area.
Its been know that if you kill a Gor Taku and shakdratha will spawn in his place, and vice versa.
2nd Beyond the caves:
Beyond the caves is the other side of the mountian, less traveled and explored so far.
There are 3 lodi Kai camps, one more towards the center, and 2 on each end. 2 of the Camps are just simple little camps, simialar to the one near the city on the newbie side of the zone. The last camp is a house. Guarded by 1 loda kai at the door, and 2 soldiers inside with 1 guardian inside on the first floor. 2nd floor has nothing, but the 1st floor can and will agro on you if you are on 2nd floor.
There is also a corpse camp, within the rocky area of this side. It contains about 7 to 8 skelly corpses, and 1 smelly corpse. The corpses are all green to a lvl 32, but the smelly corpse has been known to be light blue to dark blue. They do agro and help each other.
Wandering mobs include FireFall Saurek(lvl varies from green to light blue to a lvl 32), there are beetles, simialar to those on the newbie side, lvl range from 15 to 18 approx. called AshBeetles. Charred Corpses wonder about as well...all light blue to a lvl 32, and cast ignite, No rare drops or anything found off these mobs. Money, bone chips, beetle carapaces and such is all i have found.
There is another cave entrance that leads to a room full of lava, this is seperate then the caves described above. Within this room, there are 2 FireFall Guardians, 2 FireFall Seer's(they are shamans) and a named mob, looks like a magi fire pet names Jyn...(i forgot the name, sorry). Jyn is the only one who agros, the other 4 are alien like mobs, darker colored then the Shak Dratha. Behind Jyn you will find a opening, with a greyish ring surrounding it. Click the ring and it says you need the key to open it. Seetheker's spear, Slook, Chitterling wings(all 3 kinds) all fail to open the door. If you journey past the opening you see stairs decending down into lava, its a long swim down to a dead end, with nothing down there.
3rd part, Unknown quests.
Many things are unkown about this zone, and upon talking to the NPC & PC in both sharvahl and the thicket. i have found the following.
Loda Kai was a of the SharVahl race, and was highly respected. He was doing research on the aliens, and beyond the caves, when suddenly one day a large explosion was heard and felt throughout the thicket. When that happened, the Brigands and poachers then emerged and began to raid the paths, and the Shak Dratha appeared. This loud explosion can still be heard at times while huntin the thicket...but its source i have yet to find. I believe this can be either triggered, or something happens when the explosion is heard.
Xakra shield. Doing the Frostweaver Shield quest you are told to search of the shield made of Xakra, and you are also told that the Xakra is a rare form of silks made by the Shak Dratha Shadeweavers. Shadeweavers have been foudn to spawn in the blacksmith room, when you kill off the gor taku guards. Sometimes they spawn or a Shak Dratha Stoneguard spawns...i personally have seen 3 shadeweavers, 1 i fought was a necro, dark blue to a lvl 32.
BloodBulks, these beetles are rare, and needed for there carapace for Gulham armour, recieved from Kaza Raj. Not much info on these mobs due to the fact i never seen one.
Mass Spawn, There aparently a way to spawn all the shak dratha and all the gortaku despawn, but i have yet to find the way, but have seen it done 1 time before.
I apologize for not putting locations down...i never did right any down i know the zone by heart(happens when you do nothing but explore it for 2 months.) I will continue to search for info.










