So in telling my girlfriend where to find Cotton Bolls in Bentbranch, I mentioned that she was going towards Matron's Lethe. But what I SAID was, "Matron's Lathe. Or Lee-thee. Actually, I've never been sure how to pronounce it."

See, I had always looked at the fallen tree as resembling a lathe, and with the localization team using so many archaic spellings, I assumed this was such. Well, tonight I was determined to get down to the bottom of this. First I looked up "lethe" to see if I could support the "archaic theory," and, no, not so much. All I could find is references to the River of Forgetfulness in Hades and the noun "lethe," which means, "forgetfulness, oblivion." So I looked up a Japanese map of the Shroud, and interestingly enough, the Japanese name uses the word 忘却, which basically means, "lethe."

So, the question then becomes, why is it Matron's "Lethe." Was the tree forsaken to oblivion in the Calamity, forgotten by the Matron and her protection (and hence allowed to fall)?