Karsus Butte

The Karsus Butte was the petrified remains of the Momentary God Karsus, the Netherese arcanist that achieved godhood for a single moment.
==Description==
The mesa-like rock formation was made up of coarse, red sandstone shaped in the twisted form of a colossal human on its back. The mound that comprised Karsus' head, which held the features of the former-god's visage including his prominent nose and weak chin, gave way to a depressed chest and rounded belly that formed the butte's highest point. Karsus's stone arms remained crooked at a naturally impossible angle.
Wild magic radiated outward from the Butte, extending out to Karse and the surrounding Dire Wood.
==Geography==
It lay within the Dire Wood region of the eastern High Forest. The city of Karse was built at the "foot" of the fallen god.
===Geographical Features===
Karsus' Butte was the source of the Heartblood River, the foaming red-hued waterway that flowed westward through the forest.
==History==
The butte was formed immediately after Karsus's Folly in the , when Karsus was destroyed a moment after achieving apostheosis and his godly remains plummeted down to Toril.
On Hammer 1 in the , Galaeron Nihmedu used magic from a powerful artifact taken from within the Karsus Butte to summon the Return of the Netherese enclave of Thultanthar to Faerûn from the plane of Shadow. 
==Notable Locations==
The single notable structure atop the Karsus Butte was the Shrine of the Undying Heart, a temple built atop the butte dedicated to the Momentary God. An illusory passageway within led to a chamber at the heart of the temple, within which lay the dead god's still-beating heart, the only source of whole magic in all the Realms.
==Inhabitants==
Karsus Butte was considered a holy site by the cultists that worshiped him.
===Notable Inhabitants===
* Wulgreth, the lich and former archmage that made his lair within the Karsus Butte centuries after his fall.
==Appendix==
===Appearances===
:;Novels
:: The Summoning
===References===
Category:Hills
Category:Mesas
Category:Locations on the Heartblood River
Category:Locations in the Dire Wood
Category:Locations in the High Forest
Category:Locations in Northwest Faerûn
Category:Locations in Faerûn
Category:Locations on Toril