Nichibotsu Himalayas

The Nichibotsu Himalayas: perhaps not the tallest amongst the various ranges contained within the continent of arcadia, but just like it’s peers… shrouded in mystery and it’s face is just barely visible through a thick fog of legend and antiquity.

Nestled closely between the border of the noble nation known as ‘Hosham’ and its neighbouring and decidedly more leafy neighbour: ‘Oakenland’, these mountains serve as natural barrier between man and yet another potential foe.

The way up the mountains isn’t as treacherous as one might assume, supported by a stairway seemingly carved into the very stone by the scraping of a thousand claws, the deep grooves make for easy climbing and the rock beneath your feet seems to tremble and shudder ever so slightly as if the mountain itself is drawing its last breath.

Why anyone would actually make the climb up the face of Nichibotsu Himalayas is a strange question indeed, dragon cries can be heard keenly as they circle overhead. Whispers tell of a dragon hoard hidden within the Himalayas, it is said that it lies guarded by an ancient and powerful dragon whose scales dull the mightiest of blades and whose breath is colder than death itself. The way into the mountain is easily found, the constant flow of adventurers and seekers of good fortune has ebbed to a trickle of those with nothing seeking to gain everything.

People say the guardian is dead, but if that were true why do the adventurers who enter never return?