Halashet Delta

"Our boatman slowed the craft to a slow drift and pulled his oar from the water, taking a seat on the bench at the rear. I questioned why we had stopped and was simply told to watch, and wait. As we drifted around the last bend in the river and cleared the tall rushes I was met with one of the most inspiring vistas I've had the privilege to see. The setting sun cast gentle gold and purple light over a wide valley plain below us, veined with rivulets and streams shepherding the river into the sea. People roamed rich rows of crops in cooling desert dusk and flocks of small birds flitted after lazy insects between the reeds. A blanket of pastoral calm lay comfortingly over it all the likes I've never felt again."
-Jian Taishi, Three Hundred and Seventeenth Seeker of the Keeper’s Vault, 1674 C.C.

Geography

The Halashet Delta is a river delta located in the Sharim desert, where the mouth of the Halashet river empties into the Shoregone Sea. It dominates a large valley region leading down from the Mountains of Light to the ocean and is dominated by lush and fertile farmland and slow moving waterways which break from the river and diverge throughout the plain. The Fiyakwu tribe of Sharim halflings have lived in the delta for centuries and have built a prosperous community along its streams, leveraging their agricultural wealth into a position of power and respect among the collective desert tribes.

Fauna & Flora

The delta valley is natively covered in a tall variety of rushes that develop a small sweet smelling white flower. They are used by the local halfling population for a variety of purposes in their community and as grazing fodder for their highhorn-goat herds. Aside from the goats and desert cats bred by the halflings, a number of fish and insect species can be found here as well as a populous (if annoying) species of groundhog, and a docile if intimidating breed of giant bovines.

Natural Resources

The area has become a breadbasket for the Sharim peoples, though completely monopolized by a single tribe. The abundance of farmed produce, fishing opportunities, and hunting of the native groundhogs make it an invaluable resource for food, while the rushes and other vegetation along with stone and ore mined from the nearby mountains make for excellent building materials.

Alternative Name(s)

The Growing Lands

Type

Estuary / River delta

Location under

Faneshorn: The Center of the World