Honnleath

"A Chantry was established fairly quickly after the War broke out and has grown steadily. It is a stop along the road, so to speak, for Templars. Especially those loyal to the Chantry. Here there has been opportunities for what was left of the locals to have got in good with the Chantry and Templars, thanks to knowledge of the surrounding areas. Some have even joined the church or the army, seeing it as a means to get away from their relatively boring existence. Of course they would eventually return, having realised just how good boring can be when compared to battling magi.

There are few mages here and no Circle. Magic users are not favoured by the residents but have a valuable relationship with the Chantry and a growing one with the Templars."

- a letter by the hand of Thomas deBane, who it was intended for is unclear.

The village of Honnleath was once the home of the Golem, Shale. Activated by the fabled Warden Commander during the Fifth Blight the dwarven creation never returned to where she had stood for so long and such is the obscurity of it's location the village was not affected by the Blight afterwards. The actions of the Warden Commander had saved Honnleath from being as foul and corrupt as other parts of Ferelden and so by the time the mage-templar war had begun rejuvenation had occurred, including re-population and working of the land.

It soon became apparent to the crown that Honnleath was important, however, due its location between the Korcari Wilds and Redcliffe; thankfully for the King's sake the village has been sworn to Redcliffe for a very long time and as such access to it is not so difficult. Not only that but the valuable, uncorrupted land had already forced the hand of the Arl into supplying the region with more guardsmen and soldiers. The region has thus prospered, considering all factors.

However, with war drawing near and the establishment of both Haven and Redcliffe as a sites of pilgrimage the Chantry soon approached the crown about establishing a permanent templar station on site. Thus far the majority of templars within Honnleath were only ever travelling through but both the Chantry and the Templar Order itself became insistent that the safety of the region from dangerous magi could only be insured with a heavier presence of templar knights. Negotiations lead to an agreement whereby the Templar Order would never hold more than half the numbers of Redcliffe guards and thus Honnleath became a village under Chantry influence, a centre for recruitment by both the church and it's militant wing.