The Hart's Hill (Torrune)

The Hart's Hill is one of the five hills that rise within the walls of Torrune. Like all the others except the Syrennian Hill, it is located in the High City; it is the easternmost of the five, situated in the High City's Serrapine Quarter. Close by to its southwest lies the Hill of Okhtar and the Archon's palace, separated from Hart's Hill by the narrow Tirasval.
The magnificent Carnelian Baths are the most prominent feature on the Hart's Hill. A hub of social life for the High City's rich merchants and other elites, these baths are fed by the bountiful spring atop the hill. This spring also supplies water to the Greenstone Span aqueduct which emerges from the edifice of the baths and crosses the Tirasval separating Hart's Hill from the Hill of Okhtar; it thereby fills the archon's own cisterns as well, and feeds the subsidiary aqueducts that carry water down to the Pool of Parth and the Silk Market Cistern. A lesser spring on the south side of the Hart's Hill is channeled down the slope to feed Aothon's Pool just inside the Water-Porter's Gate.
The name of the Hart's Hill originates with the same local legend that gives the Hill of Okhtar and the Tirasval their names as well. This tale holds that in the anarchic days after the Great Cataclysm, when the Qossite entrepot where Torrune now stands had been abandoned but before the Asgali Empire yet arose in the Taefemach, a bandit chieftain (and perhaps, some say, a devotee of Qadira) called Okhtar XXXXXXX habitually made his camp atop the hill now called after him. Rising at dawn, the tale relates, he often saw a white hart among the trees on the summit of what is now named the Hart's Hill. Taking his long bow of yew, he shot an arrow at it each morning that he saw it, but although he was a masterful archer, his shot across the dell to the other hill always went wide. 
After many such attempts, he experienced a dream-vision just before waking, in which a voice emanating from clefts in the hill's stones commanded him to send his younger brother and right-hand man, Tir, across to the other hill just before dawn to flush the hart down the slope into the dell and thus provide an easier target. This done, he finally struck and felled the creature; but descending the hill to where the hart had fallen, he found Tir instead, pierced by his arrow, drawing a final breath. The grief-stricken Okhtar then carried Tir's body to the bank of the Helvander and laid him down at the river's edge, cursing Qadira's name for her cruel trick; at that moment the form of the white stag burst forth from the river and dashed into the woods up the slope towards Hart's Hill. At the same moment, Tir's own body sprang back to life, ran into the water, and disappeared. He was never seen again and Okhtar, it is said, ever after forsook the site where Torrune now stands.