Rurzun Mountains
Don’t travel across the Rurzun. I suggest you take a ship around.
A Wall Between Lands
The Rurzun is the highest mountain range in Namda. Reaching all the way from the Mallisi Sea in the west to the Soundless Ocean in the east, the Rurzun Mountains cut straight through the south of Namda, and by doing so separate the countries Garyiala and Utreas from Oandeon. Perpendicular to the Rurzun are the Oakto Mountains, which run from north to south on the Rurzun’s western end, creating a border between Oandeon and the Mallisi Sea.
The jungles on the side of Oandeon are home to insects, sometimes of horrendous size, colourful birds and reptiles, monkeys like langurs and macaques, deer, bears and tigers. At the higher altitudes, bears and goat-like mammals hunt and graze. On the other side, you might spot a snow leopard or Rurzun wolf.
In Oandeon, people rarely venture into the jungles of the mountain, but the scarce forests and grasslands on the northern side of the Rurzun are inhabited by the Rurzani, a nomadic people that know that mountains like the back of their hands. They are nomadic and occasionally travel north into the Stodor, where they trade with the local Utrurg people.
Mount Mavvon is one of the steepest peaks in the mountain chain, and paths towards its summit only become visible in the imagination of the craziest adventurers. Pord Aramdir, the only adventurer to climb the mountain twice and survive, claims the rocks at the base of the mountain peak shift and change, and thus that the path is never the same.
This shifting of the rocks is ascribed to a Great Beast of the Wild that claims Mount Mavvon as their home. Aramdir and a handful of other adventurers have claimed to have seen this great guardian. Some say it looks like a tiger, others say it looks like a goat, and yet others say it looks like both.
Natives of the Mountain
A great variety of plants and animals call the Rurzun home. On the southern side, tropical broadleaf forest covers most of the base of the mountain until it is displaced, the higher you climb, by small patches of evergreen forests and plain grassland, and eventually nothing more than rock and snow. On the other side of the Rurzun, to the north, the rain shadow is the cause of the Stodor Desert.The jungles on the side of Oandeon are home to insects, sometimes of horrendous size, colourful birds and reptiles, monkeys like langurs and macaques, deer, bears and tigers. At the higher altitudes, bears and goat-like mammals hunt and graze. On the other side, you might spot a snow leopard or Rurzun wolf.
In Oandeon, people rarely venture into the jungles of the mountain, but the scarce forests and grasslands on the northern side of the Rurzun are inhabited by the Rurzani, a nomadic people that know that mountains like the back of their hands. They are nomadic and occasionally travel north into the Stodor, where they trade with the local Utrurg people.
Guardian of Mount Mavvon
A little to the east of the centre of the mountain range, the tallest peak reaches high into the sky. The white tip of Mount Mavvon is recognisable from far away, and often used by the Rurzani to guide them home, even though Mavvon is uninhabited itself.Mount Mavvon is one of the steepest peaks in the mountain chain, and paths towards its summit only become visible in the imagination of the craziest adventurers. Pord Aramdir, the only adventurer to climb the mountain twice and survive, claims the rocks at the base of the mountain peak shift and change, and thus that the path is never the same.
This shifting of the rocks is ascribed to a Great Beast of the Wild that claims Mount Mavvon as their home. Aramdir and a handful of other adventurers have claimed to have seen this great guardian. Some say it looks like a tiger, others say it looks like a goat, and yet others say it looks like both.
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