Hallowary / Deas, the Beheaded Peak

In their hubris, the Elder Peoples created Hallowary, named Deas in the Elder Tongue. Before, there existed a great peak, the height of all those surrounding (so we can assume at least 3400m), which the Peoples named Deanol. From between 12900 and 11900 OT, the Peoples levelled the upper peaks of Deanol, blasting it down in mighty avalanches into the valleys below and creating a flat plain, smallest and easternmost of the great plateaus, 600 square leagues across. The plain is almost entirely barren, save for a few shrubs, and it still bears the scars left behind from its creation – the ground twists in unnatural ways there, and there are many hundred foot ravines hidden by shadow or loose boulders, capable of killing anyone who might dare cross it. Despite this, the most warlike of the Hular tribes dwell on this plateau and those around it, and hold its origins as sacred myth. These tribes include Ha Krakata, Ha Difrak and Hal Krockal, three of the most powerful Hular tribes. Ha Krockal once ruled the entirety of Hallowary, from 412AC to 479AC. However, the tribe Ka Hokkaral, (responsible for the founding of Hakcrals Mound), grew tired of their raiding and broke their power in a war called Di Raskal, the Second Humbling (476AC to 479AC), allowing other tribes to rise.

The Pit
At the centre of Hallowary lies a deep pit where the earth lies scarred and torn, thirty metres wide at the entrance, too deep and dark to see to the bottom of, with walls of black sheer stone. Hular people of Hallowary believe that something unspeakable lies within that pit, and cast those who commit unspeakable acts in as ritual punishment. It is said that being chained near the pit can drive a man insane. The Hular have no name for this pit – it is a nameless place, talked of little and feared greatly. Some brave or foolish souls have tried to enter the pit, and vanish completely some distance down, ropes and even chains found to be cleanly severed when pulled back up. No tribe ventures within a league of the pit in normal circumstances.

Frequently, godstorms form over Hallowary, centred on the pit, and seemingly fixed in one place until they dissipate. The clouds in these storms have an odd fire like aspect to them, and bathe the entire plateau in orange light. The storms frequently grow larger than the entire plateau, to as much as 60 leagues wide, and swamp nearby peaks and valleys in writhing clouds and strange pale lightning.