Halath¶
"The kingdom of Halath was once one of the great Danari kingdoms of the North. It was destroyed during the 2nd great rift war and still remains a dangerous land. It is haunted by the ghosts of the armies and peoples slain there, it is also home to unnaturally large and fierce beasts not found on the rest of the continent. The area is home to some hill folk (primitive humans), centaur clans, as well as a few clans of XXX barbarians" (S548; the barbarians' name is a placeholder in every copy). The gazetteers call it the Wild Lands of Halath.
The Second Rift War¶
Halath was where the Second Rift War began. "A spontaneous rift formed near the wizard college in southern Halath. Demons spilled from the college and in their attempt to fight them, the wizards made the rift larger. The college was overwhelmed. Halath itself fell within a month of the slaughter at the college" (S386). The demons did not cross the land: "Instead of travelling over the seas and over the mountains, the demons invaded the Underdark" (S386), and the war was fought below ground for years before "an expedition of the united races landed on the shores of Halath to close the rift" (S386). When the war was over, the remaining demons "were cleared over the span of half a dozen years from northwestern Numenia, though not from Halath, Amarin nor from much of the Underdark" (S386). What the demons left, the ghosts keep.
Gap
Halath has shores and lies behind seas and mountains from the rest of the continent, but no source places it more exactly, names its old capital or the wizard college, or says who the hill folk and barbarian clans are. The gazetteers' Whettan covers "Hallath and Khet" west of Dalmar (S387); whether Hallath is Halath is not stated.
Earlier accounts¶
The 2014 gazetteer (S548), its 2015 copy (S499) and the compendium (S372, S384) give the same paragraph on Halath; the 2020 history (S386) adds the war's course. The two layers date the war differently, a question already open for the History pages.