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>Sounds exhausting. Wilderness is a drag. How did Yulya survive out there until now?

I will answer this because you posted here in my domain. Her cabin was just south of the Neverwinter woods proper and within view of the Triboar Trail which used to be a relatively safe route before the recent turmoil. I can't give away any of Joy's spoilers but she's letting me hint because you might be able to piece it together but she doubts you need to. The increase in bandit activity, the recent conflict that wiped out Cat's tribe and the rise in unchecked fauna population are interrelated contributors to the same end.

Hint: "The rumor is that the greater ecosystem has been disturbed."

This is a hint to Joy's main questline that you may or may not even touch but she will push you toward. She admits that her confidence in being able to push you so far is tenuous at best and she doubts her hooks will move you at this point.

To either of us, that's fine! This is your game, play how you want and background motives and motions will continue at a slow pace. Someone somewhere will answer the call to adventure and it doesn't have to be you, right now or ever.

It was a safer place before the recent state of affairs that have been building over the last few years due to the disturbance of several main interlocking forces. Not all of these forces are addressed by the main questlines available but there are three main questlines that are discoverable by you. None are trivial in scope nor easy to solve and I am pushing my group toward a different though related main questline than yours and no one is currently being pushed toward the third other than the native populations of Neverwinter and surrounding towns.

Without teams of adventurers who care, the current situation will only get worse until the wilds of this region become impassable by anyone other than the adept survivalists and high level adventurers.

Yulya also has a certain protector who can help to keep her save.