Red Mountains

The Red Mountains are a mountain range that forms a natural barrier between Erros and the Kingdoms of Men. They were high, natural peaks that extended from the Starsea to their southern border at the Sun Bay.

Inhabitants
Most of the inhabitants of the Red Mountains were uncivilized, but the Dwarves held several fortresses deep beneath the peaks. Several Dragons were known to inhabit the mountain range, and often came in contention with the Lothors that inhabited several small holdfasts. Brutal Yakmen and Ogres also wandered the range.

Through occasional caravans, the River Kingdoms have established a route through the Bone Pass through the Red Mountains, following an ancient path lined with bones from a war long past.

Underneath the mountains lay the great dwarven city Laythholme, the capital of the Red Mountain Dwarves. Many Yakmen and Lothor ruins also dot the landscape on strategic points, however they are often infested by monsters.

Geography
The geography of the Red Mountains is generally steep cliffs and tall peaks, reaching over 15,000 feet in height. The climate was arid, and the weather dry, with little water except from the occasional rainstorm in the eastern fringe. Some mines have been established, rich with copper and iron - and the occasional vein of gold, silver, even Perricite.

Some speculate that the mountains were made through magic of the Terran Elementals to separate the Kingdoms of Men and Erros from each other, on the orders of Elemental Binders who summoned them many centuries ago, before even the Starfall. However, this theory is unfounded, yet it is prevalent in the many scholarly circles of Obor.

It is also a speculation that a hidden primordial being exists underneath the largest mountain, the Bloodpeak, named for the flowing red water down its cliffs. There lay the being Osmondeus the Mountain-shaker, slumbering beneath the earth, chained by magic that he has no hopes to escape from... Unless the chains are broken.

Notable Locations

 * The Bloodpeak: The tallest mountain in the Red Mountains, reaching 15,000 feet into the sky and unconquered by any brave adventurer. Many who leave to summit it die trying - and many more who seek to free the being underneath die as well.
 * Laythholme: A dwarven city beneath the mountains, it is accessible by way of a great gateway carved into the side of a mountain.
 * Umrick: A great temple of the Yakmen who worship their bloody gods at this site. It is guarded by a full force of several different races, and no man has ever been said to witness the inside of it without dying.