Kelvin's Cairn

Kelvin's Cairn was a mountain in Icewind Dale.

Description
Kelvin's Cairn free-standing 1000-foot-tall mountain fronted by a river valley about as deep as the mount is high. The mountain top is always capped with snow and ice even through the short summer. The mountain is the only peak within a thousand miles, even though it appears as merely a pile of loose boulders.

History
Reghedmen legend holds that Tempus defeated the frost giant Kelvin in this spot and gouged out the rocks here and piled them on top of his corpse. Most likely, however, it is an extinct volcano. It was atop the Cairn that Akar Kessel conjured up fiery magic with the help of Crenshinibon, that subsequently melted the ice and snow around him, causing an avalanche.

Inhabitants
The valley to the south of Kelvin's Cairn is the home of the Battlehammer Clandwarves, formerly led by Bruenor Battlehammer and by 1483 DR by Stokely Silverstream. From underneath this vale, the dwarves mined iron and forged it into well-crafted weapons and armour that were then sold in Bryn Shander, located at the other end of the valley.

Drizzt Do'Urden, upon arriving in Icewind Dale, was told by Cassius to go to Kelvin's Cairn. He set up his sparse home in a cave on the mountain's barren north face.

Wild beasts are often found on and around the mountain, including verbeeg, yetis, Remorhaz. Verbeeg are especially fond of making their dens in the rocky cliff faces.

Bruenor's Climb
Bruenor's Climb is a fifteen-foot-high column of stone that offers a vantage point over Termalaine and Maer Dualdon. It is a favorite place of reflection of Bruenor Battlehammer and Drizzt Do'Urden. . It is located four miles south Kelvin's Cairn, on the east bank of the valley, while the spot where Aegis-fang was forged is nearer the northern end (tucked up against the southern flank of the mountain's base).

Novels

 * Sojourn
 * The Crystal Shard
 * The Last Threshold
 * The Companions