Büyük Dâg Mountains

The soaring Büyük Dâg Mountains dominate the southern coast of the Isthmus of Irkaina. The highest peak, Aryat, stands 13,400 feet tall, and a half dozen lesser peaks are barely 1,000 feet below that. The range is an extremely rugged land of high bluffs, knife-edge canyons, and snowcapped peaks. In the spring, streams course down the slopes and fill the valleys before feeding the Porphyra River. Winter brings powerful storms that blanket the mountains in snow and freezing rain, and thunder snowstorms are common.
The Büyük Dâg Mountains are uninhabited; at least they have been for the past thousand years. A millennium ago, the mountains were home to a kingdom of giants that have passed beyond memory, though there are some slight references to them in ancient tomes. These giants were never very numerous, and their kingdom was little more than a single fortress and outlying homesteads or wandering tribes. The last king, Hakality the Fell Eyed, sought sorcerous power to extend his life, but found only thralldom to a vampire. This led to the wholesale slaughter of his people. All that remains today of the kingdom are cyclopean ruins deep in the mountains and things that haunt the jagged peaks.
Now, gold seekers are flooding into the Büyük Dâg Mountains along the Porphyra and Kisa Rivers, a few of whom report seeing ruins high on the slopes.

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Mountain Range