Firetop Mountain

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Firetop Mountain is a very jagged mountain rising from the Pagan Plains, somewhat close to the Moonstone Hills. The side of the Mountain is described as looking if it has been savaged by the claws of some gargantuan beast. Though long thought to be unclimbable, it can actually be done if the climber is daring - or deparate - enough.

The mountain earns its name from a vast growth of red Sleeping Grass on its summit. Few know that it is a dormant volcano, with a lava pit boiling in the deepest of its depths. There was a natural cavern and series of tunnels, and at one point in its history, colonised by dwarves. Redweed was founded by the Dwarf King Nadarul Kazorian, an ancestor of King Gillibran Ironhelm III of Stonebridge; the dwarves Nadurul ruled were known as the "Redweed Clan". Redweed was the name of both the village outside the mountain, and the caves and tunnels that had been carved in the mountain for dwarves to dwell in. Most of the dwarves abandoned this outpost as rumors of a hated flying reptile was circling by. Today, the mountain is riddled with a veritable labyrinth of corridors and rooms, bisected by an underground lake in the center of the mountain. Some years later the river swelled cutting off supplies from outside world. All the remained inhabitants were starved to death but could not rest due to a curse an evil warlock placed on them.

Now, the mountain is home to a series of labyrinth-like man-made tunnels, filled with monsters and evil creatures under the command of Zagor, the self-proclaimed Warlock of Firetop Mountain.

The nearest village to the mountain, Anvil, is a two-day hike. The villagers live in fear of the Warlock.