Maarm Mountain
Khavit's Mountain
Maarm Mountain, sometimes called Khavit Mountains, was a mountain in the central Cutting Mountains on the major continent of Ethae. According to Stonefoot Carvings and dwarven folklore it was the location of Khavit Cavern, the founding home of the Dwarf people.
Little is known of the moutains itself, as the dwarves that recorded it focused on their cavern home of Khavit, rather than the outer mountain. According to the Carvings the early people that would become the dwarves of the Cutting Mountains struggled to survive the frozen world on the surface. The world was in an era of ice and the mountains were buried in glaciers. The frozen world and the Dragons trying to kill the early dwarves, pushed the people into finding shelter. The legend claims the dwarves of Clan Matu and Clan Sadu, guided by a divine light, followed a river of melting glacier water deep into its icy core. There below the ice, they found the water flowing in a cave. Following, they came upon a great cavern in the heart of the mountain. They have found Khavit Cavern.
Over time the world warmed, and the glaciers melted. The dwarves spread to conquer the Cutting Mountains, birthing the Kephic Empire within. Khavit, and the mountains around the cavern were a sacred site for the early dwarves. A site of birth and survival. A place to pilgrim as a way to remember where they had come from, literally.
In the late Areian Age, and Early Kephic Age, the dwarves, along with Elf, had advanced their understand of Magic and technology far enough that they were able to rise mountains into the sky. The first of these would be Maarm Mountain. A tribute to the past, and future of the people. The two great races had miscalculated, however. Maarm, the ancestral mountain of the dwarves, rose into the sky, crumbled and shattered in an explosion, sending debris across the continent. They would learn for this and succeed in future attempts, but Maarm was gone from the world forever. As was sacred Khavit Cavern with it.
Modern scholars believe Maarm to be one of the mountains that once stood in the Iootra valley. If ancient records are accurate, most likely near the north central region. Iootran folklore claim the mountain was in the location of Lake Iootra. Their ancestoral oral tradition is that when Maarm lifted away it took great chunks of the world with it. The void left behind filled with waters over time creating the lake.
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