Dead Harvest

Hangath (northwest) - Mirtheon
Category Events
Region Grashakh
Location Hangath
Period 1130 - 1135

A decade following the Morath War, the Orchish empire initiated an advance northward and eastward around Bileddanul. Within the western territories of Hangath, they faced continuous peril of assault by the region's halflings.

Fograth blight druids, utilizing the ancient techniques of the MauhĂșl Valley, worked to cull the halfling population. The actions of these Blighters became so severe that they provoked widespread crop failures in the forest and a deterioration of the area's vegetation. This period of famine came to be known as the Dead Harvest. The famine was so acute that desperate halflings turned to cannibalism to sustain themselves. Naturally, such behavior, even for survival, was deemed abhorrent and reprehensible by their patron deity Avandra. The cannibals were thus forsaken.

Proponents of The Glutton swiftly arrived among the halflings and others facing adversity. The persistent hardship of the Dead Harvest and Avandra's perceived absence rendered the people susceptible to conversion. By the conclusion of the five-year blight, 30% of Hangath's inhabitants had become devotees of The Glutton.

Today, the region's halflings persist with the practice of cannibalism, consuming the recently slain from combat - though not those who perish from natural causes, as they deem such corpses defiled. Since the Dead Harvest, the majority of the area's halflings have converted to The Glutton; the tribes collectively known as the Children of the Glutton.

Two prospective Nature Protectorates, Oakenbeard and Springflower, claim responsibility for ending the scourge of the Dead Harvest. Over the following two decades, they combined their druidic magic to revitalize the forest. Initially, they confronted the Blighters and Fograth forces. This conflict concluded when the druids hired the Realm Stalkers, who located and eliminated the primary instigators of the blight.