When the first human tribes came to these western lands, they mostly settled on the eastern shores, in and around the City of Dawn in what we today call The Hartlands. But some ranged further afield. And like earlier elven ezplorers, the human settlers also reached the mountains at the end of the world, the Echors.
It is said that the Echor Mountains encircle all lands fit for human habitation and civilization. According to the Codex, the most holy of texts of the Church of Phaeton, it was Phaeton Himself that raised these slopes from the bones of Aedes, to set the boundaries of his protection. Within the lands and seas encompassed by the Echors, humanity is subject to Phaeton's aegis, and His divine influence shields the Sovereignty from demonic incursions and unholy threats. Outside of the Echor Mountains, humanity is fated to survive amongst the elements.
No human has ever explored even the near side of all the ringing mountains. Only the eastern edges that form the western borders of the Sovereignty have been charted. But both scholars and wizards alike maintain that the Echors indeed encompass a large mass of land and sea.
The Echors on the western borders of the Sovereignty are of further interest, as beneath the mountain range lie the ancestral halls of dwarvenkind. The great city of Irongard is hewn out of the very core of the western Echor Mountains and their creation myth tells us that their Maker created the dwarves in these very halls.
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