Phaerith and Mount Siastyllodil

Where is Mount Siastyllodil?

Most famously overlooking Jadarkontalyia and Hydalath from the southeast, this mountain is also northeast of Sanadir and northwest of the Bekrus Mountains. The traversible land between the Bekrus Mountains and Mount Siastyllodil is one of the best places to look up on Siastyllodil, but it's not a famed vista relative to the mountain as seen from the settled theomes near it.

How is Mount Siastyllodil classified?

Hostile. Mount Siastyllodil is a 'Sacred Mountain' which pretty much means 'look but don't touch'. A few reverent hikers get through these places safely, but they must be very talented and strong-willed in addition to being reverent. Piety is necessary, but not sufficient, for people who explore what are called 'Sacred Wilderness Areas' on Theoma.

What kind of economy and population does Mount Siastyllodil have?

None! There may be the occasional stone stolen from it by hikers who believe their will is pure and their love for the icy mountain true, but that's all. Nobody lives here, but some people die here! Anyone who traverses Mount Siastyllodil is subject to an intense and awful Fate pressure to make lethal errors. The local weave of Fate distorts thought and promotes clumsiness. There are bad creatures living in the mountains, too. This is a place where would-be heroes go to risk death, knowing that they will be tested to perform correctly under a fierce pressure otherwise.

Some hostile theomes with only 'mundane' threats have Gnarlen populations, but local monsters hunt gnarlen in Mount Siastyllodil, which has prevented the establishment of gnarlen communities under the aegis of the sacred wilderness. It doesn't protect them. Their resistance to Fate does however prevent them from being forced into mountaineering accidents (though a few of them still slip, fall, and shatter after falling great distances just by true personal errors of their own), so they are still the kind of person most likely to climb the mountain and steal a rock from its peak.

What is the value of rocks stolen from Mount Siastyllodil? They are not enchanted, so surely they should be worthless, but each one is a triumph!

What is Phaerith like?