Great Forest ( Oblivion ) The Great Forest is the dense woodland that encircles the Imperial City to its west , north , and south . The Forest serves as a buffer between Colovia and the Empire ' s capital city . The Great Forest is thick with white - barked aspens , redwoods , and various other evergreen and broad - leaf trees . Ground cover is ferns , bushes , and uneven thatches of dark green grass . Though the weather in the forest is generally mild , the thick matte of trees makes visibility poor . The larger boulders in the Forest are moss - covered and banded by black horizontal lines , suggesting layering and that the rocks are of sedimentary origin . The Forest consists of gently rolling hills that steepen in the east as the region gives way to the Heartlands and the Imperial City . North the land rises steeply to the Orange Road . The leaves here turn to fall colors . In the southeast , the Forest extends nearly to Bravil . While there are no significant bodies of water , nearly every road in Cyrodiil crosses the forest : the Red Ring , Orange , Gold , Silver , Black , and Green . Flora and fauna . The Forest supports a great deal of varied plant life . Fungus includes Cinnabar Polypore Red Cap , Cinnabar Polypore Yellow Cap , Clouded Funnel Cap , Fly Amanita , Green Stain Cup , Steel - Blue Entoloma , and Summer Bolete . Other plants that grow in the forest are flax , Lady ' s Mantle , Monkshood , Motherwort , Somnalius Plant , St . Jahn ' s Wort , Tiger Lily , and lots of Viper ' s Bugloss . Bergamot grows in the higher elevations . A few Lavender plants can be found near the border with the Heartlands . Animals in the Great Forest include bears , deer , mountain lions , rats , spriggans , trolls and wolves . Locations . The Colovian city of Chorrol is located in the northwest portion of the Forest , near the base of the Highlands . Author Alessia Ottus praises Chorrol ' s Countess Arriana Valga as a " very proper woman " but also says that the town guards are " lax in their duties , and fail to arrest and lock up the various beggars and thieves and gamblers and cheats who idle in the streets . " Indeed , Ottus ' Guide to Chorrol is the only of her Guides to have its own " Shameful Features " section . Because the Forest is near the Imperial City and sits along several major trade routes , it is a fairly crowded region . The settlements of Aleswell , Brindle Home , Harm ' s Folly , Odiil Farm , and Weatherleah can be found in the Forest . The sizeable village of Bleaker ' s Way sits at the base of the hills that rise sharply to the Orange Road . Two taverns , the Inn of Ill Omen and Faregyl Inn , are clustered on the south side of the Forest . Also look for the warm and inviting Gottlesfont Priory , due east of Brindle Home . There is a bed at the priory that is always available for a traveler , though the Hero might have to wake up the middle - aged nun sleeping in the bed in order to use it . She won ' t mind . All ingredients at the priory are free , and most have restorative properties . Likewise , a bevy of healing plants , notably Fly Amanita and Lady ' s Mantle , grow around the priory . Finally , a chapel at the priory can heal disease . Another priory - Weynon Priory - is just outside of Chorrol . It is the first location the Hero travels to in the main quest . Weynon is a large priory , with a main building , chapel , lodge , graveyard , and stables . Hackdirt , an isolated and xenophobic village near the border with the Colovian Highlands , has an inn and a limited General Goods store . Points of interest . There are a total of four Daedric Shrines in the Great Forest . Molag Bal , the father of vampires , has a shrine just north of Gottlesfont Priory . Mephala ' s Shrine is also in the Great Forest , although it appears below the first " a " in " Heartlands " on official Imperial Maps . Clavicus Vile ' s Shrine is near the Red Ring Road , and the Shrine of Hircine is located in the Forest east of Charcoal Cave . Shadeleaf Copse is one of the region ' s few ponds ; one of the region ' s few Nirnroots grow there . Harcane Grove , home of the Unicorn , is in the south of the Forest , due east of the Inn of Ill Omen . A lucrative secret entrance to Ceyatatar can be found northwest of Greenmead Cave and southwest of the main entrance to Ceyatatar .