The Hanging Mountains

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The Hanging Mountains
Peaks that graze the shadowed ground.
Location	Parabola
Notable Figures	The Viscountess of the Hanging Mountains

"The Hanging Mountains are a constant in Parabola's changeable cartography. Always, they divide the Wastes from the Wanting-Way, and they are never to be found near the Smoking Shore. There was some great war between those places, long ago. The Mountains prevent a recurrence.

"The Mountains hang below the Coiling Spire. Along their peaks and barriers are speckled refuges and redoubts, the holdfasts of silverers and exiles, monks and the very lost."

The Hanging Mountains are a rare example of a constant landmark in the ever-shifting dreamscape of Parabola. The Skin of the Sun, Parabola's false-sun, hangs below them.

Despite the inherent hostility of a range of upside-down mountains, not to mention the cold, they are certainly not uninhabited by humans, and the Viscountess of the Hanging Mountains claims the region for the cats. The Viscountess of the Viric Jungle has a hideout on a low-hanging peak, and there is an observatory high above, at the base of a slope, that allows a close-up view of the Skin of the Sun. The highest - er, lowest - peak is commanded by the Jaded Pagoda, a Fourth City temple.