Draconus Mons

Draconus Mons is widely believed to be the largest active volcano in the Known World. Reaching upwards of ten thousand feet tall, Draconus Mons is a formidable sight and a place where almost all sailors refuse to travel.

The skies around Draconus Mons are choked thick with darkened ash, smoke clouds, and volcanic lightning. Near-constant streams of lava bleed from its jagged surfaces like very many rivers. It is near impossible to dock a boat at the shores near the foot of the volcano, due to a combination of factors; obsidian shards that pierce the surface of the water, dead, skeletal reefs that risk splintering ship hulls, and boiling lava that causes choking steam to obscure vision. Within Draconus Mons is a honeycombed network of magma tunnels that cross in labyrinthine patterns. These chambers span for thousands of feet down into the bowels of the world, giving a home to unique forms of life capable of either withstanding the heat or outright ignoring it. The elemental forces scattered across the Whip of Fire are concentrated highest in these caverns, and the risk of being burned alive by angry elemental spirits and random lava flows is a near-constant danger. Because of this, it is theorized that the boundaries between the materium and the Plane of Fire are at their weakest here, and it is possible that an all manner of elemental creatures are able to stumble into Draconus Mons' magma chambers. Worse still, its namesake comes from numerous stories written by adventurers bold and foolish enough to brave its depths and return to tell their tales. Some stories speak of a great magma chamber in the volcano's heart deep underground. Within the chamber is said to be a tremendous formation of rock the size of a small town shaped like a draconic maw. These madmen's tales describe how the maw looked to be breathing in slumber.