Earthcrown Mountain

Earthcrown Mountain (Jorthkorona in Jotunn (Language)|Jotunn) is the tallest mountain in Asgard and indeed the entire Prime Material, roughly pyramidal in shape, with a summit of nearly 30,000 ft. Steeped in history, magic, and power, this mighty formation is often seen as a symbol of Asgard itself. Strong, enduring, and near-impossible to conquer.
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===History===
====Gunnlaugir and the Titans====
In the late Age of Gods, feeling as though he had run out of challenges to face, Gunnlaugir roamed the world looking for an opponent that would test his divine mettle. In Asgard, which was then an unnamed wild land, he happened upon Earthcrown Mountain, and knew he had finally discovered the sport he had been hunting. He immediately challenged the mountain to a contest of strength and endurance. Gunnlaugir wrestled the mountain for a full day, using all of his impossible might to subdue it, tearing it briefly away from the very earth itself. Hoisting the entire mountain above his head, he slammed it back down, permanently reshaping the nearby landscape with a great quake, the sheer force re-fusing it to the ground.
Knowing he had been victorious, Gunnlaugir claimed as his prize the mountain itself. The god proceeded to couple with his new conquest, creating the Womb of the Titans, a cave from which the first Titans spontaneously appeared mere minutes later.
===Notable Features===
====Hrolf Vindhamarr's Cabin====
On the path up to the Tree of Ash is the cabin of the man who tends and tames it, Hrolf Vindhamarr, Sage of the Voice. It is humble, but sturdy, built from large stones and mighty logs the giant man hauled up the path on his great shoulders.
====Tree of Ash====
On a wide, flat outcropping on the western face of the mountain grows Hldaskkr, the Tree of Ash, Sapling of the World Tree. This dangerous, plant-like Chaote lashes out at all who approach with its mighty, burning, prehensile roots.
====Womb of Titans====
A large cave on the mountain's northwestern face from which the first Titans sprung forth fully formed, created when Gunnlaugir coupled with the mountain. The Midgard have some other, less poetic names for the cave, but it remains a place of solemn history and reverence.
===Nearby===
Earthcrown Mountain is west-of-center in the Earthcrown Ridge, a mountain range in the northeast corner of Asgard which stretches northwest and southeast out from the mountain itself. At the Earthcrown's southwestern foot is the Dwarven village of Frostadt, where the legendary battlebrew fire mead is made. To the southeast of the mountain is the newly established Fort Lauderdaugh.
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