Caves of Hogo Tarosvan

Hogo Tarosvan (Dn."Phantom Dors") was the Danan Lin name given to an ancient Daen Coentis  burial site in the White Mountains, which lay some ten miles northeast of the town of  Ossarnen in Lamedon.The original name for this site was not  remembered by the Danan Lin,  but its ancient significance seemed to have derived  from  its association with the then veneration  of  Sauron as a servant  of  Aule. Whether this association was present when the site first began to function as a burial ground, or whether it was a later development as a consequence of the withdrawal of the Oathbreakers  into the  mountains, was  unclear. Whatever its origins may have been, Hogo Tarosvan functioned as a community of living Oathbreakers a s  late  as the middle of the  seventeenth century of the  Third Age.The burial field  of  Hogo Tarosvan rested  atop a precipitous butte of blue granite,  whose southward  lace  was  punctuated with seven cavernous  maws  from which issued  the headwaters of the Nen Galen, one  of the four main tributaries that joined  to form the Ciril  in Lamedon.These caves, whose natural dimensions were expanded when the Sauronic sanctuary was delved, were used by the Oathbreakers as a fortified refuge. I t was  these  caves which  gave  the site  its  Daenael  name.