Burgiyat

Burgiyat

Burgiyat (Burg-ee-at) is a dormant volcanic mountain deep within the densely treed land due south of the Neomar Valley, it reaches approx. 11,000 feet in height above sea level at peak. On the slopes of this mountain, strange beasts are said to roam, somehow malformed and more vicious than their counterparts in the rest of the world. Some of the local tribes make a ritual of hunting elk with six antlers, or bears with two heads in this locale, for their oral history postulates that this place was always so. This is not true, however. Burgiyat was shaped into the form it currently holds, driven strange by the wild magics of an elven sorcerer who still inhabits the deeply forested sides of the mountain. There are other inhabitants as well, but none worth much note, and none more imposing than the sorcerer. He has lived here for almost a thousand years, and in his increasing madness, he has begun to lose control of his own mind. Sometimes a spell will fire off at random, or his influence will slowly leach over the land, transforming mundane animals into strange mimicries of their previous forms. A deer may grow more antlers, a rabbit may find that it has feet five times the size of any other of its species. A salmon, single-mindedly swimming against a current, may find itself suddenly aware of that which surrounds it, and the futility of such acts, to spawn only to die. The first difficult act, however, is trying to reach Burgiyat in the first place, and make a way through the seemingly impenetrable walls of trees and thickets of brambles. There are also said to be treants who live on the sides of the mountain, and more sinister things than many-antlered deer and strange rabbits.