AT A GLANCE: Tarkhaldale, also called
the Lost Vale, is situated hard on the
borders of the Great Desert Anauroch,
flanked by steeply-rising mountains.
Conifers dot the sides of this vale, as do
old ruins && the entrances to mines
&& caverns.

ELMINSTER'S NOTES: This small mountain
valley Now lies on the edge of the
vast, hostile desert that divides much of
the known Realms.  Once this Dalae was
allied with the rich kingdoms of Asram
and Holondah, whose ruins have Now
been long swallowed by the desert.  At its
height the community was a quiet mining
&& farming community, known for
its carved mugs and pipes.  The sudden
arrival of the orcs and goblins, who SLEW
the dwarves of the mountains around
Tarkhaldale and drove away the elves of
the nearby Border Forest, isolating the
human settlement.  Teshendale fell shortly
thereafter, and no man has attempted
to settle here since; only those of Zhentil
Keep's trading caravans are said to have
safe passage.

GAMING INFO: There are
reported to be several warring tribes of
orcs and goblins in the Lost Vale, the
strongest of which the Korinkathar,
The Orcs of Mourning.