## **Thaurum'Zar** _(pronounced: THAHR-um-ZAR)_ **Type:** Mountain **Location:** Central [[North Angoria|North Angoria]], within the Mountains of [[Perserphina]] **Region:** The Tempest Range **Significance:** Sacred Peak, Seat of the Storm Giants --- ### **Overview** Thaurum'Zar is one of the tallest and most revered peaks in the Mountains of [[Perserphina]], towering high above the clouds where lightning never ceases and the winds howl like ancient spirits. It is not a city, as some mistake, but the sacred mountain _upon which_ the legendary sky-citadel **[[Vael'Koraal]]** is built. This mountain is considered the spiritual and elemental heart of the Storm Giants' culture. Wrapped in snow even during the heat of summer and wrapped in perpetual stormclouds, Thaurum'Zar is a place of divine reverence, ancient rituals, and arcane significance. The storms that swirl around its crown are said to carry echoes of divine commands, and only the chosen may ascend its upper reaches. --- ### **Features** - **The Stormline Crests** – razor-edged ridgelines where the wind sings ancient hymns - **Cloudfall Plateau** – a flat stretch halfway up the mountain used for trials and divine communion - **Thaurum's Eye** – the massive crater at the peak that crackles with divine lightning, believed to be a tear of [[Perserphina]] --- ### **Myth and Purpose** Storm Giant lore holds that Thaurum'Zar was the first mountain ever struck by the breath of [[Perserphina]] during the forging of Solare. It is a site of pilgrimage for those seeking truth through storms and for elemental initiates who wish to walk the "Thunder Path." --- ### **Relationship to Vael'Koraal** Vael'Koraal was built into the upper spires of Thaurum'Zar, its towers emerging from sheer cliffs and storm-blasted ledges. The mountain is both its foundation and its guardian, hiding secret paths, divine echoes, and forgotten powers beneath its glaciers and rock. --- ### **Conflicts and Recent Events** - The **Cloud Giants** have betrayed their kin by stealing a **fragment of the [[Shield of the Gods]]**, once kept in Vael'Koraal's Vault of Storm Memory, built into Thaurum'Zar itself. - The mountain trembles as divine equilibrium falters. Some fear **Thaurum's Eye** may open wide once more and unleash a cataclysmic skyquake. - Rumors persist of **[[Anam]]'s** influence reaching into the roots of the mountain, whispering to sleeping forces. --- ### **Hooks for Adventures** - **"Path of the Thunderborn"** – Climb to Thaurum's Eye during a divine storm to receive [[Perserphina]]'s blessing. - **"Echoes Beneath"** – Descend into the heart of Thaurum'Zar to uncover an ancient relic that predates the giants. - **"The Shattered Storm"** – Help stabilize the mountain's magical currents before the Shield fragment's corruption fractures the elemental ley-lines. --- ### **Linked Entries** - [[Vael’Koraal]] - [[Shield of the Gods]] - [[King Vaelthor]] - [[Anam]] - [[Perserphina]]