Haun is the south-eastern tier of Penduk, a land of temperate savanah, low hills, and swampy lowlands. Haun is the home of the wolf-like skoles, a proud people that wandered the plains long before the time of the Creators. Kij brought those few she had saved back to their ancient homeland, and they began to flourish once more, never faltering from their ageless traditions and rich heritage. Though nomadic, they did not attempt to spread their territory past the ancient borders, and even after thousands of years of extinction, their noble code of honor and kinship remained intact. Seven of the ten original tribes managed to recover, and within a thousand years their numbers were nearly as high as they once were.

        It was the brutal czath that the Spiral employed to help fight the skoles in their initial expansion into Haun. In exchange for their loyal servitude, the czath were spared by the servants of the Eater, and enslaved by the white dust, awsil. The reptillian brutes, driven mad by the dust, made up for inferior skill, conviction, and weaponry by the sheer weight of numbers. Along with their new allies, the Spiral overtook the jungle lowlands and exterminated the skoles by the thousands, melting the rainforest into murky swamp with the power of the second collector, Glut. The czath were subverted by the Eater's dark religion, adpoting the use of its icons in their crude tattoos and architecture after the fall of the Solinar order. Their roll was instrumental; the tremendous power wielded by the Solinar was limited to the destruction of their deity's natural enemy, the undead. Against the living reptillian thugs, the knights fared far worse.

        The territory of Slank is the portion of Haun now controlled by the czath and the gorgs. The Spiral, too, have a controlling presence here, their officers and priests ruling over the dim-witted saurians with cruel efficiency. They have taught the czath that the are essentially worthless, to the point where they have become quite convinced, and wish little more than to please their dark masters. They do this by roving further and further north, wiping out the skoles wherever they may be found, and bringing the corpses back to the Spiral as new recruits. The border between Haun and Slank is actually quite vague, shown here as a rough line around which lies a zone of perpetual conflicts between czath and skole. This region is known as the Divided Plateau. As the Spiral have no interest in expanding further north, however, they have stopped reinforcing the encroaching czath, and thus their progress has been slowed greatly. Without the intelligence of Spiral generals and the added ranks of undead, the skoles once again have the upper hand.

THE TETHYS and THE SAMHAIN
The Tethys crosses through Erdanis and winds its way through the misty mountain valleys of northern Haun. These beautiful vales are home to several koba tribes, and many of their caves may also be found in this region. The Samhain river, to the east, runs through a similar series of lowland jungle valleys from northern Haun to the heart of Slank, and is used heavily by slavers.

COLLAPSED CAUSEWAY
The southern seaway ruins once bridged the landmasses that are now Penduk and Endland. Before the ancient war, this region was a series of shining port cities linked by fantastic bridges and spans that defied gravity. It is now a shallow sea littered with sunken ruins and numerous crumbling or rusting bridge supports that rise from the sea like bones. This area is now overrun with czath.

THE DEADLANDS
Like all Wasted terrain, the Deadlands are completely devoid of life. This dead bayou is clearly recognized by its black waters and bleached, bone-white trees, caused by the proximity of the Collector. The region will sap the life and color from any being that attempts to cross it, and no living encounters are ever experienced here.

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