Lost Peaks

Lost Peaks These two small mountains in the northwestern wood are the source of the River Dessarin, as well as home to Korred and satyrs on the lower slopes and in the woods. Rumors and legends place the Fountains of Memory here, on high plateaus and in small caves near the zenith of one of the Lost Peaks. The Fountains are magical pools that reflect views of Faerûn’s past, whether it is the recent past, long-past history, or a personal past of the viewer. The waters also allegedly form gates that allow instantaneous travel to the places viewed, however it is unclear whether the exact time periods viewed can be reached rather than just the place. Some legends link the Fountains to the powers of Tappan, the dancing god of the korred, but his magical Fountains are said to be in a peaceful glade rather than a mountain plateau or cave.

Within the slopes of the easternmost Lost Peak, a longdead dwarven hold lies undisturbed as it has for 12 centuries. Should anyone discover its entrance, they discover a dwarven mining facility still filled with the forms of dwarves. Mysteriously, the entire place is dead as are its inhabitants, but some fell magics hold every dwarf upright and in place performing the action the corpse was doing when it died. Whatever destroyed this place killed everyone unawares and instantly, as most of the skeletal dwarves work at mining or smelting at dusty, long-dead forges or pounding out metal for weapons. It is truly eerie to walk through the halls, finding dwarven skeletal forms still hard at work long after death.