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Steel Mountains

The steel mountains are a supermassive magnetic biome found in the Northern Hemisphere of Venviri. It is a series of highly magnetic mountains all morphed into a super mountain range, stretching many thousands of miles. Entire mountains repel or attract one another, constantly switching their magnetic fields. As a result the land is completely unstable and impossible to traverse safely.

The region is the home of the Elisian Kingdom, a land terraformed to suit the needs of Elis Episiol, the sole owner and self-appointed Supreme Architect of Venviri. This massive terraforming project currently spans more than fifty five square kilometres, with an artificial atmosphere to allow Elis to breathe comfortably without an apparatus.

Geography, & Location & Climate

The steel mountains are a shimmering blue and purple, with dashes of pink and white. Massive slices of rock fan out from a single point, magnetically attracting and opposing one another causing giant fragments to smash into one another.

No magnetic fields are going to stop me from building a world for me to rule.   I want my kingdom in these mountains, and I will build it here no matter what.
— Elis Episiol

New mountains form as quickly as they fall, in a matter of hours. Only a few untouched mountains exist, achieving a form of magnetic equlibrium. No other mountain can get close, as they are all attracted to and oppose it.

The atmosphere in the region is toxic, with a high amount of metallic poisoning in the water, ground, and air. Some lifeforms seem to thrive around this poisoning which has only magnified in recent years.

Aside from the occasional pocket of magnetic flora, the steel mountains are practically void of life. Few creatures wander these barren landscapes, including sludgeworms, creatures that survive on typically toxic minerals.

Ecology

Sludgeworm by Mochi

Few creatures can tolerate the ever-shifting environments. Many are skilled fliers, able to dodge and weave levitating rocks flung around from the magnetic fields.

Sludgeworms are not one of these creatures. Instead they shuffle along the ground, siphoning any nutrient they can from the soil and the air, using soft filters protruding from their shell, and hard mandibles to dig up the ground.

Other creatures use similar methods of feeding, particularly filter feeding from the atmosphere. Aeroplankton is the basis of most food webs on Venviri, abundant thanks to many species of giant fungi and coral that release tiny spores into the atmosphere.

Type
Mountain Range
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Inhabiting Species

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Cover image: Venviri Cover by Mochi

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Author's Notes

Steel mountains are picture in Venviri's cover image!


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Aug 21, 2025 22:30

MAGNETS, HOW DO THEY WORK? This is an amazing article!! I want to see a mountain move. I wonder if a little magnet would be enough to induce a force that would eventually set a mountain top in motion, if it's that unstable?

Fly high, Guardian. o7
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Aug 26, 2025 17:27 by Mochi

Thank you so much! I'm sure it could! I'd love to draw these mountains mid destruction, it would look soooooooo cool :O <3

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Aug 21, 2025 22:45

Very nice. The middle of the map looks like a lowland of sorts, with all other biomes towering above it; was that intentional? Do the mountains ever spontaneously rocket towards eachother?   Typo: "Sludgeworms are not one of these creatures. Instead that shuffle along the ground..."

Aug 26, 2025 17:29 by Mochi

Thank you! My plan for that was to be an ocean, buuuut I really love the idea of it being a massive lowland, even below sea level :O It is a rough first draft of a map, I just wanted to visualise this planet before I started working on it. Thank you so much for that idea! :D   Typo fixed!

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Aug 30, 2025 01:48

Glad I could help ;)

Aug 23, 2025 13:12 by CoolG

Steel mountains sound cool AF!! And the map is really cool :O

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Aug 26, 2025 17:29 by Mochi

Thank youuu! It's a first draft of a map, a better version is coming!

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Aug 24, 2025 21:14 by Dr Emily Vair-Turnbull

Not really a place I would choose to build my kingdom, but there is no accounting for taste.

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Aug 26, 2025 17:29 by Mochi

I doubt there's anywhere better than this to build a kingdom! xD

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Oct 30, 2025 08:18

The idea of magnetic mountains is so good, and also quite scary, considering everything is more or less in motion, all the time.

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Oct 30, 2025 09:00 by Mochi

Thank you! The entire planet is a mess of dangerous places, and the Steel Mountains are chill in comparison :D

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