Mount Doom

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Mount Doom is found on the very southern edge of The Great Lands. Life does not come easily in the vicinity of Mount Doom, and apart from a small tribe of hunters, there are no living soul to be seen in those areas. Dead souls however, are a very different matter. Mount Doom is said to be cursed, probably by the hunters in the nearby Mayan Jungle, and the legend has it that anyone who sets foot on said mountain, will walk this world forever.

The history has it that it was once great activity on and around Mount Doom. Hordes of undead would march north and turn any man or living creature to their kind. The Petrified Forest is probably the greatest contributor to keeping this history from being regarded as anything more than a fairy tale, along with the city ruins of Sturike and the ghost-like village of Enri.

Both Enri and Sturike is now believed to be inhabited by undead, and The Petrified Forest is no different. The trees never bloom, nor do they rot and fall to the ground; they just stand there, barely moving in the cold breeze constantly blowing from the south. Although Mount Doom and the forest technically belong to Aronim, as far as the common people of The Great Lands is concerned, Aronim ends just south of Herrion.