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.