Mt Epgrave

''While many have detailed various geographical features, few have given note to Chausia’s tallest landmark. The mountain has a deep history, one that I could not summarise in the few words I have given it here – Learned Man Clovis, ‘The book of Chausia’s natural wonders’''

Located on the border of the Kingdom of Nigrulen, a mere 140km from the town of Esgento and 250km from Alpiatames stands Chauisa’s tallest mountain. At a height of 2875m, Mt Epgrave is the largest mountain by more than 100m. The mountain itself is of incredible cultural significance for the Romians, Astellians and even the Elladans. This is due to the stories which are detailed about what this mountain meant for the ancestors, and the specific ancestors who played a large part in creating the races that are in the area.

For the Romians, while they themselves are not technically ancestor originated, they do believe this mountain played a large part in their own origins. When the first Romians split off from their Elladan rulers, they slowly began to move towards the mountain, believing it to be a beacon in which they could rally and fight for their own land. Through this, their leader Esgent Lucian Nigruo founded the town of Esgento, the first town in which Romains were the majority and the rulers within the world. From there, they went out to take over much of the Elladan nations around their area.’

Meanwhile, to the Astellians, a group of people who live in and around mountains for most of their life, Mt Epgrave is the pinnacle of where one of their race could be. To them, the ancestor who provided them with life, known as the Broken Mountain King, stood atop Mt Epgrave, and set his people into the world, to strike down the vile Elladans who had cultivated the rugged wilderness of the mountains. For them, Mt Epgrave is the most holy shit, and the fact that Romians, a race who did not even originate from the ancestors, hold it, is a slight to their religion and their history.

Finally, the Elladans view the Mountain with both honor and suspicion. As previously looked at, the Astellians and Romains view the mountain as places in which they set upon to defeat the Elladans, and as such, it is a symbol of resistance against them. However, the Elladans value it for another reason. While the ancestor Ellad travelled further north and founded many city-states which would prosper into the Elladan nations we know, Elladia, his sister, travelled south. Upon reaching Mt Epgrave and believing it to be a summit to the skies, she summitted the mountain and built a shrine there. Heading back down, she would continue to travel south, but return here every time she went back up north, eventually considering it to be part of the full birth of right of the Elladan people and Greater Ellada.