#mountain world

Moody mountain range in northern Norway

Photo: Foe Rodens

The Mountain World was not always a mountain, although no one now remembers a time when this was not the case. At its tip is the sacred land of Saranai - city of the gods. Beneath it are the Temple Lands, as close as pilgrims are allowed by the guarding spirits of the Mountain World to their gods.

The country of Nelenai takes up many miles and is home to artisans and tomb robbers who delve shallow into the mountain’s heart to reap the glories of ancient cultures whose bones lay trapped beneath the Mountain World.

Bref and Stek are two countries locked in almost perpetual conflict over who owns the Giant’s Heart which beats at the center of Bref and bestows upon them wealth and knowledge (which the Stek desperately desire).

The Sleplanders are master builders who live in cathedrals which cling precariously to the steep peripheries of the Mountain World. It is thought they made a pact with the Mountain World to weather the predations of Lowland monsters.