Katiland Peak
Lahrag Mordin
Katiland Peak, known to the Dwarf as Lahrag Mordin (Doom Mountain), and Gissru's Spear to the Human dwellers in the mountains, is a mountain peak in the Katiland Range of the Cutting Mountains. It is the tallest, standing at over 14,000 feet of the three mountains (Katiland Peak, Mount Glincore, Mount Pyere) known as the Elk Sisters. These mountains surround the deep triple valley known as the Elk Trench.
Standing above its sisters, with a peak of four steep faces, the peak is famous across the continent of Ethae. Though few artists have ventured out to the mountain, past images have been repeated, and the mountain's shape has often been used on maps to mark mountain locations. This fame is what gives the mountain it's modern name of Katiland Peak, named after the range of its dwelling. This has gone so far as to have the common folk believing Katiland Peak is at the center of the Katiland Range, though experienced cartographers and mountaineers know better. Its more ancient names are lost to history, though Gissru's Spear is the most well-known of these. That is the name humans gave it, dwarves of the Kephic Empire have always called it Lharag Mordin, the Mountain of Doom.
Katiland Peak has several massive natural caverns deep in its heart that once could be accessed from the surface through cave networks. The dwarves of the Cutting Mountains sealed these caves in the Kephic Age. Sealing also the tunnels they dug into these caverns, forbidding any mining in the region of Waterdeep under the peak. This is due to the caverns being sites of a Shadowfell below the mountain. Shadowfell that the dwarf legend describes as hungry, with a desire to expand. The few studies of the caverns that took place concluded the Shadowfell being so deep underground has been augmented by the darkness, as well as the dense concentrations of Kianon in the Night Below. These legends have only passed word of mouth, with no dwarf ever writing anything in a Stonefoot Carvings about them. Few if any in the modern day know of this darkness under the mountain, and the dwarves keep it that way for fear of foolish humans are evil Juhl'are awakening the shadows within.
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