Crystal Forest

The Crystal Forest is a location from Tales of Legendia. The area is located right beyond the Bandit's Lair. The background music for the area is called The Whisper of the Crystal.

Description
By the name of the forest it obvious that the the geographical design is nothing, but crystallized trees. The walking areas of the forest seemed to be the crystallized open tree branches, with numerous openings. The area is also full of spider webs and spider egg cocoons, due to the fact this is where Crystarantula monsters make their nests. Underneath this area the forest is a catacomb where the Everlight is held at, these catacombs are trails of pillars full of trials in Relares for adventures to solve to make their way to the Everlight.

Main Quest
Senel Coolidge, Will Raynard, and Chloe Valens head to the Crystal Forest after Walter Delques kidnaps Shirley Fennes from the Bandit's Lair. When they first arrive they see a young girls getting chase by a Crystarantula, but when the monster looks at the party it simply ignores them and chases the girl still. Chloe seeing the girls getting chase tells the party they must help, Senel disagrees with her, but Will decides they should help her. When the party gets to the halfway area they find the girls getting attack by the Crystarantula still they manage chase it off for a while, but it comes back and fights the party. After defeating the party the girl introduces herself as Norma Beatty and decides to follow the party. When the party reaches the exit they seem to have their path blocked by wall, but Norma goes up to the wall to cast Grave and makes a passage for them. After the party continues further until they reached the forest's exit.

Character Quest
The party comes to the Crystal Forest again during the events of Norma's character quest the day after she is poisoned. Norma came here after she figured out this may be the Everlight's true resting place. The party uses Giet to help find Norma at the exit area they find a small opening leading to small catacomb. When party goes into the catacombs they find Norma on the floor on the verge of death, they give her the antidote and heal her completely. Norma begins to doubt herself again and summons Dark Norma to fight the party, after defeating the dark character, Norma solves the trials of the Everlight and goes into it's resting place. When they arrive into the area they find numerous messages left by Norma's master Sven, thus revealing he found the Everlight.