Mount Stalagos
Mount Stalagos last erupted over ten thousand years ago, and is considered dormant, if not dead, by all concerned. No mention of volcanic activity in the region has been noted since the area was first settled.
Geography
The main crater was created when Mount Stalagos exploded and the top of the mountain collapsed. The resultant crater filled with water from rainfall, but then the central, smaller cone (now known as the Inner and Outer Fanes) was formed by a second eruption bursting up through the center of the crater. Now that vent, too, is dormant, but cracks and fissures into an underground bed of magma prevent its small crater from filling with water.
Over 100 years ago, diamonds brought up by the ancient lava flows were discovered in the surrounding fields by dwarves. These were traced to the crater and an extensive mining operation began. The plan was to mine the rim of the crater and then plunge down into the heart of the dead volcano—a kimberlite pipe in this case—afterward. The dwarves were never able to carry out this plan. In fact, they were only just able to begin their exploratory mining operation. Newcomers to the area with no concern for diamonds arrived and slaughtered the dwarves with spells and summoned creatures. These were the first doomdreamers, and they desired the crater for their own use. Since the doomdreamers’ arrival, the locals have thought of Mount Stalagos as cursed, haunted, or at least inhabited by terrible monsters—that is, if they thought of it at all.
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