World Mountains
"The earth is alive beneath the peaks. Sometimes She shifts, and the mountains quake. Rock and snow and ice fall and turn and block ways well enough they might as well never have existed in the first place. We can't build paths beneath the blue like the lowlanders, but we can traverse the caverns—the underways, we call them—akin to them. But there's danger there, too. More than I want to think about."
Geography
The World Mountains reach from the storm-shores of the north to the windy waters of the south. They rise highest in the north and the south, but in the middle the towering, all-shadowing peaks seem to take a dip. Should one manage to climb all the way to the top of the highest peak, they would see nothing but mountains in all directions.
Streams and lakes are a common feature in the World Mountains. These currents can shift and change like anything else in the region, or fall into deep caverns beneath the ground, never to resurface.
Southern World Mountains
Southern World Mountains were greener and received far more precipitation over a year's time than the central peaks, where dryness neared perfection. Forest covered the foothills and even up the slopes greenery held firm in the ground.
Northern World Mountains
Northern World Mountains were similarly greener, though they gave home to spruce and smaller pines, along with willow and a peculiar species of birch crawling in the dirt akin to a vine.
Central World Mountains
Where life prevailed in the Central World Mountains, it came in the form of short grass and little else. It was not unusual to look around and see nothing alive at all. Here not even the resilient Azēgo people could survive.
Caverns
Beneath the world and the mountains lies a hidden network of caverns. Their origin remains hidden, but stories are plenty. Most come from the Sēna Azēgo, the region's oldest residents, who use the ways akin to roads whenever they find a need to traverse vast distances with relative haste.
These caverns are not wholly stable, however, and suffer from the general instability ever-present in the World Mountains.
Underground lakes and currents are also a normal feature within the caverns. The water, for the most part, is clear and quite clean, and at times inhabited by various species of flora and fauna adapted to the lightless conditions prevalent within the caverns.
Spine of the World
"What's making all the noise in the caverns? Best not to dwell on that."
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