Glittertind Mountain
Glittertind Mountain is a snow-covered shield volcano in Northguard, approximately sixty miles west of Winterpyre. It is a nearly fifteen mile wide mountain with multiple vents and calderas stretching nearly five miles wide. Most of the volcano is formed by trachytic lava flows, but some hyaloclastite is also found. Snow, ice, and several psuedo-glaciers cover the majority of the mountain.
With a volume of nearly 200 cubic miles, it is a massive volcano; parts of it's structure are buried within the earth and likely extend deep into The Underdark in order to support it's gargantuan size.
The volcano rises approximately 6,900 feet above the ice levels around it, and it's total height was measured by a team from the Royal Society for the Exploration of the Natural and Physical World at 11,350 feet in 209AV.
On it's summit lies a flat, snow-filled, nearly 3 mile wild caldera, with an exposed lava dome; this caldera and dome are the only known place in Kermoria where lava resides on the surface, unmoving, in a large lake.
This large, dome-like lake is the site of Cinderhome, a settlement founded by Fire Genasi during the Draconic Age.
The mountain itself has been mined on several occasions, with the intent of tapping into unused or sealed lava tubes in search of precious gems and ore from deep within the earth; these attempts have all ended, usually in tragedy, as the tubes are rarely empty.
With a volume of nearly 200 cubic miles, it is a massive volcano; parts of it's structure are buried within the earth and likely extend deep into The Underdark in order to support it's gargantuan size.
The volcano rises approximately 6,900 feet above the ice levels around it, and it's total height was measured by a team from the Royal Society for the Exploration of the Natural and Physical World at 11,350 feet in 209AV.
On it's summit lies a flat, snow-filled, nearly 3 mile wild caldera, with an exposed lava dome; this caldera and dome are the only known place in Kermoria where lava resides on the surface, unmoving, in a large lake.
This large, dome-like lake is the site of Cinderhome, a settlement founded by Fire Genasi during the Draconic Age.
The mountain itself has been mined on several occasions, with the intent of tapping into unused or sealed lava tubes in search of precious gems and ore from deep within the earth; these attempts have all ended, usually in tragedy, as the tubes are rarely empty.
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