Shattered Peak

The broken remnants of an enormous volcano that last erupted millennia ago, the Shattered Peak stands in the center of The Great Plateau. One of the last visible remnants of the Age of Titans, when Giants ruled the land, today the jagged mountaintops rising from the otherwise flat terrain are looked at with fear and awe thanks to the frequent dimensional anomalies that occur within the weathered shards of stone.

History

During the Age of Titans, what is today the Shattered Peak was the tallest mountain within a thriving civilization that stood in a valley between the Northwall Mountains and Stonetooth Mountains. The Giants had wrestled the world from elemental chaos. Much of their civilization's stability and order came from wonders of magical engineering created to stave off the wild magic inherent the early days of the world. The lynchpin of the entire web of magical stability was an enormous construct built over the top of the peak.
The stability could not last forever, however. Though their civilization stood for five thousand years, eventually the elemental pressures became too much to bear. Through no fault of their own, and with little warning, the engineering failed. Bursting back into chaos, elemental forces broke through the web with cataclysmic fervor. Though the effects of this disaster would occur all over Lasair, nowhere was it more evident than in the center of it all. The mountain, thought to be stable, burst forth with a volcanic eruption of a scale never before seen. The entirety of the giants' population was extinguished within an hour as waves of superheated gases blew over the land.
The magmatic waves that followed engulfed and covered nearly every sign that their civilization had even existed. The Great Plateau, its volcanic soil today forming the richest agricultural land on Lasair, is a civilization's grave.

Geography

Though called "Shattered Peak", the mountain actually has several peaks evident. Visible from across the plateau, the mountain stands as a broken and weathered landmark usable for navigation. The long-lasting effects of its eruption remain, however. Dimensional and temporal anomalies, the lingering result of the shattering of the Giants' wards, makes it a frightening and dangerous place to visit. The only known structures around the mountain are a small group of fallen stone towers at the edge of a wetland that has formed at the base of the peaks. Snow runoff collects there, and then flows downstream to eventually join the Lasair River as it flows across the Fertile Lands.

Type

Natural Wonder