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| − | The '''Yehimal''', a name meaning '''"Rock-Snow"''', or the '''Mountains of Snow''',<ref name="TH:VII-p126">{{Cite book/The Horde/Volume II|126-127}}</ref> and sometimes called the '''Yehimal Mountains''',<ref name="tFRA-vii">{{Cite book/The Forgotten Realms Atlas|vii}}</ref><ref group="note">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 [[Wikipedia:List of tautological place names|tautological place name]], that is, translating to "Mountains of Snow Mountains".</ref> was an immense mountain range |
+ | The '''Yehimal''', a name meaning '''"Rock-Snow"''', or the '''Mountains of Snow''',<ref name="TH:VII-p126">{{Cite book/The Horde/Volume II|126-127}}</ref> and sometimes called the '''Yehimal Mountains''',<ref name="tFRA-vii">{{Cite book/The Forgotten Realms Atlas|vii}}</ref><ref group="note">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 [[Wikipedia:List of tautological place names|tautological place name]], that is, translating to "Mountains of Snow Mountains".</ref> was an immense mountain range that formed the primary barrier between the three continents of [[Zakhara]], [[Faerûn]], and [[Kara-Tur]], and between them the [[Hordelands]].<ref name="RoF-p8"/><ref name="TH:VII-p126"/><ref name="tFRA-p16">{{Cite book/The Forgotten Realms Atlas|16-17}}</ref> They were famed as the largest, highest, most extensive, and indeed greatest mountain range in all the known lands of [[Toril]].<ref name="tFRA-p1">{{Cite book/The Forgotten Realms Atlas|1, 13}}</ref> |
==Geography== |
==Geography== |
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| + | The Yehimal was undoubtedly the most majestic natural wonder in all the Hordelands, thanks to its soaring, glacier-topped peaks. These ranged in height from 15,000 feet (4570 meters) to astonishing 30,000 feet (9140 meters) above sea level, marking them as the tallest in the world.<ref group="note">For comparison, these mountains are taller than [[Wikipedia:Mount Everest|Mount Everest]]</ref> The mountains were formed from folded and upthrust granite, with jagged profiles.<ref name="TH:VII-p126"/> |
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| − | The mountains formed the primary barrier between [[Faerûn]], Kara-Tur, and Zakhara.<ref name="TH:VI-p21">{{Cite book/The Horde|21}}</ref> |
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| + | The mountains sprawled southwest of [[Shou Lung]] in Kara-Tur<ref name="tFRA-p1"/> and lay south and east of the [[Jumpa River Gorge]], which delineated the mountains from the steppes of the Hordelands. The Yehimal effectively dominated and separated the steppes from the southern kingdoms.<ref name="TH:VII-p126"/> |
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The Yehimal comprised multiple lesser mountain ranges and branches: |
The Yehimal comprised multiple lesser mountain ranges and branches: |
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* The [[World Pillar Mountains]] or Jibal al-Akbas in [[Zakhara]]<ref name="LoF">{{Cite book/Land of Fate/Map}}</ref> |
* The [[World Pillar Mountains]] or Jibal al-Akbas in [[Zakhara]]<ref name="LoF">{{Cite book/Land of Fate/Map}}</ref> |
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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 that formed the primary barrier between 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 Yehimal was undoubtedly the most majestic natural wonder in all the Hordelands, thanks to its soaring, glacier-topped peaks. These ranged in height from 15,000 feet (4570 meters) to astonishing 30,000 feet (9140 meters) above sea level, marking them as the tallest in the world.[note 2] The mountains were formed from folded and upthrust granite, with jagged profiles.[1]
The mountains sprawled southwest of Shou Lung in Kara-Tur[5] and lay south and east of the Jumpa River Gorge, which delineated the mountains from the steppes of the Hordelands. The Yehimal effectively dominated and separated the steppes from the southern kingdoms.[1]
Geographical Features
The Yehimal comprised multiple lesser mountain ranges and branches:
- The World Pillar Mountains or Jibal al-Akbas in Zakhara[6]
- The Wu Pi Te Shao Mountains in Kara-Tur[7]
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.[8][9][3][10] 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.[8][9][3] By −15,000 DR, they'd already founded their first great kingdom, Bhaerynden, beneath the Shaar.[10]
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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".
- ↑ For comparison, these mountains are taller than Mount Everest
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 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.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Karen Wynn Fonstad (August 1990). The Forgotten Realms Atlas. (TSR, Inc), pp. 1, 13. ISBN 978-0880388573.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Eric L. Boyd (November 1998). Demihuman Deities. Edited by Julia Martin. (TSR, Inc.), p. 42. ISBN 0-7869-1239-1.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 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.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 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.