Description:

The Ravarri Volcano is a gargantuan monument that towers high above a unnaturally prosperous village that hugs the surrounding valleys. The volcano itself is a towering giant of stone and molten rock, countless volcanic tubes carve through the volcano's face to make long jumps or deep canyon like fissures in the black stone. Rockslides are common on the volcano and the rough and unstable terrain is only interrupted by ruins that speckle the volcano's flanks. If one is foolish enough to try, they may try to scale this volcano, though to date no tokota or handler that has tried to brave Ravarri Volcano has returned alive to tell the tale. A stretch of land is marred by scorched earth extends in a one mile wide circular arc that permanently damaged the earth from its last eruption in a bygone age. In this burned arch petrified trees, shrubs and leaf litter stands testament to a long dead forest, while scattered ruins scale the flanks of the volcano and bore into its depths through inactive volcanic tubes like a labyrinth. The ruins and badlands and is considered a to be cursed by the local village around Ravarri Volcano, while many villagers around Ravarri have claimed to see ghosts, common dark spirits or specters that have become trapped in the ruins in Ravarri Volcano's clutches. Despite the Ravarri volcano's current inactivity, heat still surges in waves to swelter the surrounding badlands, and shroud the surrounding villages in random bouts of ash and thick volcanic smoke. The volcano and its surrounding badlands are considered cursed by the gods, and the villages around the volcano are forced to fortify their spaces with strong walls to keep out hoarded of common dark spirits from attacking the villages. While the badlands mile wide stretch is useless for cultivation, the surrounding valley is blustered from the volcanic ash rich soil and shows an unnatural prosperity for farms and a prominent winery that sits in the village with a proud view of Ravarri. through exquisite glass panes in the lavish winery. The winery serves as a high tourist attraction, and couples as an inn for weary traveler's , both curious to try the tokotna renounced drink as well as those foolish enough to brave Ravarri's ruins for a chance at riches and forbidden knowledge.

Landmarks:

• Farstone Village -Farstone Village is a rather small community of independent folk who pride themselves on the business that build their lives up and formed the town generations ago. As a result of the peoples dependency on the enriched farmland around them, the superior quantity and sheer volume of harvest can sustain this independent village for vast swaths of time while still pulling in a staggering communal wealth from the villages' wine industry. Farstone Village's people are stoic and proud, and prefer to stick to themselves, though are highly money minded, and are known to be crafty and wise in their dealings. A small unassuming village with the fortune of a dragon's hoard all kept under wraps of a wise council that governs the village. The roughly 1000 residents of this village are fenced in by a large arching stone wall, though the village's interior sport a simplistic but charming aesthetic. Most of the house are cabins or ranch houses, though the further in you walk a clear financial divide is present. Closest to the wall are the farmers, bakers, and less fortunate souls. These farm houses and cabins are routinely under threat of attack by common dark spirits that scale the walls or break in despite the efforts of a sparse and stretched thin guard presence. while the wealthier and more successful of the village live closer to the center of the village and furthest from the walls that protect them. with the Dewdrop Winery stands at the center of it all with its back highest floors able to overlook the wall, the villages' vast grape fields and Ravarri Volcno looming near a days travel away.
• Dewdrop Winery - The Dewdrop Winery is a colossal inn style bar with seemingly an endless supply of good food, exquisite drink unlike anything else, local woes or stories, potential jobs or even rooms for rent. Should anyone wish to know anything or find an easy job as a weary traveler? Go to the winery, there are always a few bounties for troublesome beasts making a nuisance beyond the walls or common dark spirits that need driven out from unfortunate homes. The Dewdrop Winery is a melting pot of vast cultures, and its common acceptance that the winery is a space for many many fateful encounters. The populous takes pride in this establishment, and every citizen ends up working for the winery in one fashion or another. The winery hosts the annual Harvest Festival every autumn, and folk from far and wide come to see the festivities provided there.
• Ravarri's Badlands -Ravarri's Badlands is the term the locals use to refer to the mile stretch of marred earth that house the beginnings of a decapitated ruin-scape that dominate the Ravarri Volcano's badlands and surface. Ranks of broken and crushed ruins stretch like bones bleached dingy grey by the volcanic ash that spews from Ravarri's crown. The badlands are dominated by dark spirit, and wrathful ghosts that are believed to be the original inhabitants of the ruins. Now trapped in the badlands as eerie specters unable to find rest while lost in the volcanic haze. The sectors are like wisps in the fog, or whispers in the backs of travelers' minds urging the traveler for a help that never came for the victims in their time. The badlands ruins are virtually undisturbed, and petrified tables, food and even victims of Ravarri's last eruption stand fleeing as petrified statues all along the badlands as if handlers or tokotas were froze in time. The ruins are a husk of a former grandeur, vast, and only stop where breaks of petrified trees hindered progress before the eruption.
• The Ravarri Ruins -The Ravarri ruins are the expansive ruin scape that climbs the volcano's flanks, sparse among the badlands thought the higher one goes on the volcano the more condensed the ruins become. In among these destroyed and hollow streets still dwell the residents of this lost civilization as ghosts that roam the ash swallowed streets and homes. Nearest the border of the badlands lay small smatterings of ruined dwellings, small spaces though most are crushed by rubble from rock slides, or have fallen into open fissure in the landscape leaving only hollow hints and feeble structures in remain. The houses and streets become more clouded with ash the further up to the volcano you go, though despite age and nature's slow reclaim of the ruins a hollow beuty still resides in the ruins. Up on the face of the volcano dwell decimated manors, husks of once grand mansions or large imposing multi-story libraries or shops. At the crown of the volcano sits a cathedral that overlooks Meelanik's rest. All among these ruins are smatterings of rumors and mysteries, and should one brave the ghosts and dark spirits that hive in the ruins forbidden knowledge and dormant riches lay within the ruins' grasp. All throughout the ruin scape a multitude of entries to the sawtooth mines are bored into the volcano, though it's common knowledge among those in Farstone the dark spirits mostly emerge from the mines to swam the ruins, for a time, and are protected from the sun by the cloud ash that swirls around the mountain like an ever present mist.
• The Volcano's Base- At the base of the volcano stands the remnants of a crumbled stone wall, flattened and reduced to nothing more than a fragmented shell of a failed defense to the original inhabitants of the volcano. At the base of the mountain hosts several winding fissures that crack the mountain's base, and the largest of which spills a churning river of lava from one flank to simmer off at a series of geysers scattered throughout the volcano. Ruins climb visibly along the smoother patches of the mountainside, with ruined buildings clinging defiantly on cliffs or high rises in the volcano's face. Destroyed stone homes and shops retain undisturbed riches that were left dormant for time unmarked. Though the ghostly presence seems to grow in power the further up the volcano one goes. Ruined streets carve through the rough uneven surface, though the are deceptively tricky as many of these roads lead to crumbled buildings, or dead ends due to volcanic tubes or lava dribbling fissures that still ooze molten rock and noxious fumes from various scars Ravarri Volcano gained in its eruption. Though should one persist and if you keep your wits about you, it is possible to scale the mountain's unpredictable and deadly surface. The paths of ascension to the volcano are many, all dangerous, littered with dark spirits, and shrouded by a growing volcanic cloud visibility gets steadily worse the higher you go. Rocky jagged cliffs and gargantuan fissures and geysers rift the volcano's face as well as countless dormant magma tubes and the occasional ruined home or petrified statues. The ghosts of the trapped souls on the volcano watching all the while from their ruined homes and the destroyed ruins.
• Sawtooth Mines- The Sawtooth Mines are a vast network of volcanic tunnels that naturally occur all along the volcano's surface in random spots. It's rumored that these volcanic tubes are any rock hound's dream should they survive the noxious gas that frequently cause hallucinations, or the dark spirits that hoard within the mountain like swarms of gargantuan insects. This vast interconnected system is said to house vast veins of gold, ores and valuable jewels that run throughout its walls like veins, while large geode eques chambers shine like beacons of wealth should one be luck enough to find them among the many dangers in the volcanic tubes.
• The Ruin's Heart- Deep within the sawtooth mines is rumored to be a vast chamber filled to the brim with gold and artifacts from a lost age, as well as the entire wealth and recorded knowledge of the peoples who once celled the Ravarri Volcano their home. The rumor of a hidden marble and golden temple within the heart of the volcano have driven many to to devote their lives to searching for this illusive temple. Many young minds were filled with tales of wealth and splendor beyond their wildest dreams should only they discover this temple's location. Such a promise drove some to search for it, but none have ever come back to tell the tale or confirm its legitimacy.
• Meelanik's Rest - The crown of the volcano sits a rough uneven surface chiefly dominated by a rather expansive pit, a large decent and a sea of churning magma deep within the volcano's core. It is at the summit of the volcano where the temperatures become nearly unbearable. Visibility is extremely poor, and can easily lead one to be turned around or become lost at the crown of the volcano. The volcano's crown is a flat summit rifted on occasion by splits in stone where magma trickles down the faces of the mountain. Several deadly pools of mineral rich water burn at the summit around the pit itself. However it is at this space where the paranormal activity is highest, and dark spirits run wild along the summit with a feral tenacity towards anyone they might see. Large obsidian stalagmites rift the surface of Meelanik's Rest while the ruins of what once would have been a grand cathedral clings desperately to the upmost flank of the volcano.

Lore:

"So yer here for the riches in Ravarri Volcano yeah? Well turn back while you can, for no one who has ever tried to conquer the volcano has ever come back to tell the tale." It was once believed that the civilization that came before Farstone was of the upmost reverence to the god Meelanik, and to this day it's believed that this volcano remains the god's feeding ground, and a snare for lost or trapped souls to remain caged in the ruins for his feasts. The Ravarri Volcano ebbs and flows in the presence of Meelanik who is often sighted among the ruins, and the volcano flares up in dark spirit presence whenever the god is abroad. The locals near Ravarri Volcano are highly weary of Meelanik's connection to the volcano, but it is hard to dispute the sightings of the god from their windows at night as it ventures time and time again into the ruins to feast. IT's believed that Meelanik rests within the heart of the Ravarri volcano. The volcano has been known to spew black ash and soot from it's maw whenever the god is within the ruins to shield his dark spirits from the sun's burning light.

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