Type: Mountain Range
Location: Wynn Vale, Eirendor (the province's western wall)
Status: Wild
Access: Rough trails and gorge-mouths climbing from the Vale below
Craigmawr: A volcanic mountain and the ruin of a dwarven stronghold, said to still hold the dragon Rhuadhan and untold treasure in its molten depths.
Dubhrach Depths: An abandoned iron mine, choked by the toxic Hollow Breath and creeping black briars, with strange lights and noises rising from below.
Clannmor Tairn: A shunned, single-entrance gorge that lairs the redcaps under Branwen Bloodboots.
The Clannmor Peaks are the steep grey mountains that wall Wynn Vale to the west, a range of volcanic heights, old mines, and shunned gorges. Little good comes down from them. The folk of the Vale look to the Peaks for storms, for the occasional load of ore or a treasure-hunter's tall tale, and for the dangers that spill from their broken ground.
A high, broken range of grey stone and volcanic rock, the Clannmor Peaks rise sharp above the farmland of Wynn Vale. Cold streams pour down from their gorges, and cloud and volcanic haze often hide the tallest summits. Trails wind up from the wooded hollows below into hard country of cliffs, scree, and hidden clefts, easy to get lost in and easier still to be ambushed.
The Peaks are wild and ill-omened. Fire elementals and kobolds haunt the volcanic heights of Craigmawr, grey dwarves have been seen about the abandoned Dubhrach Depths, and red-capped fey lair in the gorge of Clannmor Tairn. Wolves, trolls, and the cold thin air of the heights add to the risk, and more than one traveler who went up the trails never came back down.
The Vale folk treat the Peaks as a place of old ruin and older danger. They tell of the dwarves of Craigmawr, burned to ash by the red dragon Rhuadhan the Inferno; of miners lost to the Hollow Breath in Dubhrach Depths; and of children who wandered up to Clannmor Tairn and never returned. Few climb the trails willingly, and fewer still speak well of what waits at the top.