Monday, August 10, 2020

The Nachtmahr Mountains

The Nachtmahr Mountains
A location in Krevborna

The Nachtmahr Mountains are immense, fang-like mountains of terrifying aspect prone to sudden and unrelenting thunderstorms amid their peaks. Despite their danger, the Nachtmahr Mountains are sublimely beautiful. Though they are desolate and perilous, they are also home to rugged tribes of barbarians descended from immigrants originally hailing from the Skalloche Isles. 

The Malcovat, a school of black magic, is hidden within the Nachtmahr Mountains. Like vermin, occult practitioners seek places of darkness such as the Malcovat to surreptitiously learn forbidden magic. Students at the Malcovat are taught by warlocks and wizards who have extensively studied arcane magic; some classes at the Malcovat are presided over by devils summoned from the Nine Hells to provide instruction in the darkest arts of magic. Out of every cohort, the student who advances the least in their studies is forfeit to the school’s diabolic masters; their soul is taken as hell’s due. It is said that the sinister sound of an unseen bell can be heard tolling near the entrance to the Malcovat.