Gate of Hadašham

The Gate of Hadašham is the easternmost of the three major passes serving travel between the Subcontinent and other regions. Situated at the threefold meeting point of the Zabirath, Tobkhat and Birith Mountains, it is several hundred yards above sea level. Due to the tectonic processes the Lari river was capable to dig a canyon an arrowshot broad and hundred yards deep into the rock, making the area all but penetrable.

As such radically different people lived on both sides of the ravine. With an ambitious project, using ballistas to establish a rope bridge, Hadašhim engineers were capable of building a bridge above the narrowest part of the fault. Their northern expeditions were at first confronted by tribesmen who differed from them not just in language but also in physical characteristics, having broad, round faces and a dark skin of bronze contours.

Unarmed ambassadors were received much better, they were led to the paramount ruler of the region, that was named Hulaya in the Hadašhim literature. During the 2nd century AGV amicial relations were established with both sides accepting the Lari canyon as a common border.

From that onwards, trade flourished with gold, silver, silk, fine quality iron, wines going to the north, and exotic spices, rare animals mastercrafted gems coming to the south. Unlike other border garrisons, the Lari outpost was never abandoned or neglected. This was due to the superior governance in Hadašham proper compared with other regions both in imperial times and during the Pentarchy.