Akanapeaks

The Akanapeaks were a mountain range in Chessenta, forming its historical western border.

Geography
The range ran south by the western side of the Akanamere. The range was home to the tallest mountains in Chessenta, second only to Mount Thulbane. The Gap of Reth was the only known pass through the mountains. Through it ran a trail linking Reth and Airspur.

Inhabitants
Once, the range was home to dwarves, who dug mines into the mountains over 1600 years before Dale Reckoning. These are later abandoned.

By the mid–14 century DR, the large Flaming Spike orc tribe lived on the western slopes of the Akanapeaks and in the old dwarven mines.

Many predators of the Nunwood on the western side in Chondath were once driven eastward into the Akanapeaks before 1370 DR.

A mysterious dragon of incredible size made its lair somewhere in the Akanapeaks in the late 15 century. Of unknown name and species, but theorized to be a gray dragon, observations of it were unreliable but it was known to ferociously attack ambassadors of Akanûl and the Abolethic Sovereignty alike.

Locations
The Gap of Reth was blocked by a wall to guard the nearby city of Reth from invasion. A gate ran through it to admit traffic, but the pass and gate separated Reth from the rest of Chessenta.

Iron was mined here in the safer parts, and this supplied the nearby city of Reth and other parts of Chessenta in mid–14 century DR.

The genasi city of Deepspur, a part of Akanûl, was constructed inside the sheer cliffs of a chasm in the Akanapeaks by 1479 DR. Precious metals and gems dug out of the nearby caves helped Akanûl prosper.

History
In the Rotting War, in the, the army of Reth crept through the foothills of the Akanapeaks behind the Nunwood to attack the armies of Arrabar and Hlath.

The orcish tribes of the Akanapeaks had had long history of fighting and trading with the humans of Chessenta. They had launched a number of uprisings against them. To guard against incursions by the Akanapeaks orc tribes, the fort of Rodanar was established by the warlord Tchazzar of the Chessentan Empire (929–1018 DR).

When a bloody civil war erupted between the orc tribes of the Akanapeaks, many refugees of the Flaming Spike tribe went to Airspur. They went into business as traders, intermarried with humans, and soon gave rise to a burgeoning population of half-orcs.

After the Spellplague of 1385 DR, a portion of the world of Abeir was swapped with western Chessenta in 1386 DR, causing utter catastrophe. The city of Airspur was destroyed when a vast crevasse opened beneath it. Many were killed and the survivors fled into the Akanapeaks, back to orcish kin and the safety of the mountains.