Pass of Thazar
A short distance north and east of the city of Pyarados is the Pass of Thazar, one of only two ways (Daggertooth Pass is the other) across the Sunrise Mountains into Thay. The pass climbs along the vale of the River Thazarim. At the top of the valley, a difficult road of switchbacks and precipitous drops snakes under the crest of the mountains for about ten miles before dropping into the upper vale of the Copper River, a tributary of the River Clearflow. A great stone wall raised centuries ago guards the top of the pass.
The Thazar is lower and easier than the Daggertooth, but it is not as strategically important. Most travelers to Mulhorand or Murghôm simply take the road south from Pyarados to Rauthil. In the ancient wars against Mulhorand, the Pass of Thazar was much more important, as it offered an eastern approach to Thay, but little of consequence has happened here in a long time.
