Yr-Gorrha

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A massive mountain called Mount Agorra or the Angry Mountain for most of its existence, it now lies within the Ring of Fire on Bitu-en-Sul. It was the home of the First Dwarves and many of the dwarves of yn-Av-Agova returned to it after the sidhe exodus in 71 DB having learned many new arts.

The mountain is over 36,000 feet tall and riddled with caves both natural and hand-made. Untold millions of dwarves have lived beneath yr-Gorrha throughout history. Empires have risen and fallen beneath its mass of stone whose names have never been spoken in open air.

In his (probably fanciful) journal Through the Fire and Back, Aevon Gazis claimed that there were dwarves living there as recently as 381 DB. That claim seems spurious on many levels. Temperatures at that latitude can reach one hundred sixty degrees at daytime and the journal was probably a forgery. The real Aevon Gazis is believed to have been born some time during the twenty-second century FYA and, even if he was, as he claimed, "an elf inclined towards great longevity," even the longest-lived elf on record died a few decades after her two-thousandth birthday.