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They spawn close to your party. I have also jumped down on the other side of the Valeia trees and out of bounds in relation to the map. (Risky if one does not have the "vanish" og "call of home" spells). Monsters spawn out there just as regularly. Of course I did the Stackman trick on them: Petrified them and stacked them as a makeshift stairway back to the tree tops.

I have tried tree surfing the Valeia area to see if I could tree surf past the caves of Ishad N'ha. There I also encountered an invisible wall, so that, although it looked passable, the other side was actually impassable from the tree tops.

The same kind of invisible barrier I noticed when I was stacking my way to the top of Shurugeon Castle. After many tries I was, however, able to scale the barrier.

When one tree surfs the way to the top of the cave with the back entrance to the serpent temple, one is also stopped by a barrier just before one can reach the area directly above the cave. There is a glitch in the graphics so that one can look into the cave through the ceiling.

However, there is no barrier when one tree surfs the way to the top of the dragon spire.