Eragotha Plateau

The westernmost of the plateaus of the Stonehearts, Eragotha stands alone and solitary, with no routes up its escarpment. No tales tell of any fortresses or settlements on its heights, nor have the dwarves, gnomes, or humanoids of the mountains ever settled here. There are no stories of caverns or other entrances here to places below the earth, or of any ores or gemstones to be found.
The top of Eragotha can be reached only by the most-experienced mountain climbers. Once upon the plateau, a visitor is greeted by what may be the oddest of lands in these peaks. Although the air here is cold and thin, stumps of petrified trees from a warm, wet clime dot the landscape. What appears to be the now-dry riverbed of a mighty river bisects the land, running from the northwest to the southeast right across the plateau. In places, bones of long-dead creatures of great size lie exposed to the elements. Some scholars theorize that Eragotha may be a relic of the land before the Stonehearts were raised, a region that, for some unknown reason, was not destroyed in that cataclysm, but instead was simply raised skyward as the earth heaved up. Why this land would have been preserved is the subject of some speculation, but no answers have yet arisen.

Type

Plateau