The Shival Range

The Shival Range is a slightly shorter than their mountainous kin, averaging just barely over 11,000 feet. The mountains here are of a volcanic, yellowish stone. The continuity of the high ridges of this range is broken by a string of seven much shorter volcanic peaks. This range does not soar the same way as its sister ranges to the east and the west. The mountains look a little wrong – like looking at broken teeth, one poet said. Still, if one stands in Belynar and looks up to the mountains marching across the sky to the southwest, the mountains are imposing and wild, yet beautiful. Many of the peaks still bear the poisoned, grey snow that was left after the Devastation.

The Shival Range was born in ancient times as part of a volcanic up-thrust. When tectonic shifts drove new mountains up, they decimated a number of the older volcanic peaks in their youthful zeal to reach to the sky.