Overview
Melnir’s Mount is an active volcano that rises high above the thin strip of land that separates the Keening Sea (the freshwater sea that the City of Shuttered Windows borders) from the World’s Edge. Long ago an earthquake rocked these lands and great waves roiled the sea. The land upon which Melnir’s Mount now lies shuddered and cracked and it seemed that the waters of the Keening Sea would pour out over the World’s Edge, drowning those lands and leaving the Shuttered City sitting next to a sunken desert.
In order to prevent this, one of the greatest human mages of those days a northerner by the name of Melnir, went forth and struck the earth with his staff, summoning the molten blood of the earth to him. Within days the great fountain of magma that erupted from the ground had become the volcano which still vents smoke daily. Of Melnir nothing more was ever heard. The growth of the volcano has kept the Keening Sea penned within its banks but its magma flows have softened the sheer wall of the World’s Edge making this one of the easier spots to climb down into the world below.
Connections
- The eruption of Melnir’s Mount destroyed a nearby human settlement but a few people remained behind instead of being evacuated. Their descendants are the modern People of the Claw (48.13).
- A strange inscription seems to say that Melnir’s efforts to hold back the waters may one day be undone (47.11).
- Pirates lurk in caves at the base of Melnir’s Mount (50.14).
Hook
- Is there any danger that the Keening Sea could pour down over the World’s Edge in the future?
- Is there anything left of Melnir? It seems strange for a powerful wizard to do something suicidal…
