The Nest

"The Nest"   The only firsthand description of the inner region of The Shaba and The Nest in The Sumi Tal-Sha'ba, comes from the map and testimony of Greve Vasco, the treasure hunter turned grave robber and smuggler, during his apprehension some years ago. According to him, The Nest is a series of dormant volcanic peaks located just off center, to the west in the uplifted Shaba cloud forest. They consist of gray and pink andesitic and rhyolitic rocks that poke out above the fog and rolling clouds of the lands below. The base of the young mountains contain many wet, mountain shrubs and shriveled, mossy trees that transition to hardy grasses, mosses, and lichens before becoming completely barren above the cloud line.   Several steams flow down the rocky slopes and pool up into three lakes just north of The Nest. Vasco claims that they are loaded with minerals but that he didn’t have the opportunity to stop and investigate them more thoroughly on account of the mountain’s inhabitants. When pressed he gave a report of dozens of mated pairs of wyverns that use the mountains as their nesting grounds. No other species of animals remain in the mountains, as they have apparently been eaten by the wyverns.