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The Yehimal, a name meaning "Rock-Snow", or the Mountains of Snow,[1] and sometimes called the Yehimal Mountains,[2][note 1] was an immense mountain range dividing the three continents of Zakhara, Faerûn, and Kara-Tur, and between them the Hordelands.[3][1][4] They were famed as the largest, highest, most extensive, and indeed greatest mountain range in all the known lands of Toril.[5]
Geography
The mountains formed the primary barrier between Faerûn, Kara-Tur, and Zakhara.[6]
The Yehimal comprised multiple lesser mountain ranges and branches:
- The World Pillar Mountains or Jibal al-Akbas in Zakhara[7]
- The Wu Pi Te Shao Mountains in Kara-Tur[8]
History
According to dwarven legends, the Yehimal was the site of the very first dwarf settlements on Toril, founded some tens of millennia before the 14th century DR, that is, around −16,000 DR. Scholars estimated that they later made a great exodus out of the Yehimal, migrating into the continents of Faerûn, Kara-Tur, and Zakhara and dividing into two or three major branches.[9][10][3][11] The ones who ventured north into Faerûn are theorized to have made their first settlements under the lands that would be known as Semphar, before spreading westward.[9][10][3] By −15,000 DR, they'd already founded their first great kingdom, Bhaerynden, beneath the Shaar.[11]
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Notes
- ↑ With the word "Yehimal" appearing to mean "Mountains of Snow" in an unknown language, the occasionally used name "Yehimal Mountains" is an example of a tautological place name, that is, translating to "Mountains of Snow Mountains".
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 David Cook (August 1990). “Volume II”. In Steve Winter ed. The Horde (TSR, Inc.), pp. 126–127. ISBN 0-88038-868-4.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Karen Wynn Fonstad (August 1990). The Forgotten Realms Atlas. (TSR, Inc), p. vii. ISBN 978-0880388573.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Reynolds, Forbeck, Jacobs, Boyd (March 2003). Races of Faerûn. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 8. ISBN 0-7869-2875-1.
- ↑ Karen Wynn Fonstad (August 1990). The Forgotten Realms Atlas. (TSR, Inc), pp. 16–17. ISBN 978-0880388573.
- ↑ Karen Wynn Fonstad (August 1990). The Forgotten Realms Atlas. (TSR, Inc), pp. 1, 13. ISBN 978-0880388573.
- ↑ David Cook (August 1990). The Horde. Edited by Steve Winter. (TSR, Inc.), p. Cannot cite pages from this boxed set. See {{Cite book/The Horde}} for a list of citations that may be used.. ISBN 0-88038-868-4.
- ↑ Jeff Grubb (August 1992). Land of Fate (Maps). (TSR, Inc). ISBN 978-1560763291.
- ↑ Mike Pondsmith, Jay Batista, Rick Swan, John Nephew, Deborah Christian (1988). Kara-Tur: The Eastern Realms (Maps). (TSR, Inc). ISBN 0-88038-608-8.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Eric L. Boyd (November 1998). Demihuman Deities. Edited by Julia Martin. (TSR, Inc.), p. 42. ISBN 0-7869-1239-1.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Eric L. Boyd (November 1999). Drizzt Do'Urden's Guide to the Underdark. Edited by Jeff Quick. (TSR, Inc.), p. 19. ISBN 0-7869-1509-9.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Brian R. James, Ed Greenwood (September 2007). The Grand History of the Realms. Edited by Kim Mohan, Penny Williams. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 12. ISBN 978-0-7869-4731-7.