The Mountain

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The Mountain is the scarred, hollow peak where Amarantha held the High Lords captive for fifty years, a place of blood, ash, and unending terror that still reeks of old screams.

Once a neutral meeting ground, the Mountain became Amarantha's fortress and prison, a labyrinth of torture chambers, a grand throne room carved from living rock, and the killing floor where she held her deadly games. The Mountain remains a haunted wound in the land, a monument to cruelty that even the High Lords cannot bear to speak of openly, its shadow a permanent stain on the memory of Prythian.

Appearance

A jagged black tooth against the sky, its slopes bare of life, the stone veined with red as if the mountain itself bled. The entrance is a gaping maw of darkness, and within, the tunnels are slick with damp and the memory of pain, the air thick with the iron tang of old blood and the faint, lingering scent of faebane.

Also known as: Under the Mountain, Amarantha's Fortress, The Killing Mountain, The Hollow Peak

What They Know

• For fifty years, the High Lords of all seven courts were imprisoned here, their powers bound by Amarantha's spell.
• The Mountain's throne room was built on top of a mass grave of lesser fae and mortals who failed Amarantha's games.
• Feyre Cursebreaker slew Amarantha in this throne room, breaking her curse and freeing the High Lords, but at the cost of her own mortal life.
• The Mountain is said to be the place where the Cauldron first touched Prythian, and the stone itself remembers the old magic.
• No one has willingly returned to the Mountain since the curse was broken, and those who speak of it do so in whispers.
• The tunnels beneath the Mountain are said to extend deeper than any map, leading to places where the laws of the world bend.

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