Steel Peak

Steel Peak, located in central Fireforge, is the highest point in the Resurgent Dream. For most of the nation's history, this peak has been largely uninhabited. Little vegetation grows on the peak but it has traditionally been a large nesting area for gryffons.

In 478 R.C., a Trollish adventurer named Graeak Torgarsaxebecame the first person to climb to the top of Steel Peak. Torgarsaxe made use of a large expedition including local Hsien guides.

After the first expedition, there was a spate of mountainclimbers seeking to prove themselves equal to Torgarsaxe. Between 478 and 492 R.C., there were at least a dozen expeditions scaling Steel Peak. The human and Fae traffic up the mountain led leading environmentalists, especially Marben Harpsorcerer, to worry that the unique high mountain habitat and gryffon nesting site was in danger of being despoiled. In 489, Harpsorcerer led an initiative to have Steel Peak declared a nature preserve.

Before any protection initiative passed, interest in Steel Peak declined. Amateur mountain climbers remained focused on smaller peaks and Danaan mountain climbers wishing to make a name for themselves no longer saw great prestige in doing something which had already been done over a dozen times, taking their attention to foreign peaks, some higher and some simply places where no Danaan had been before.

Steal Peak has never been settled nor has any company ever obtained logging or mining rights there. While it is open to exploration and homesteading under the Property Aquisition Act of 432 R.C., few if any people have expressed any interest in owning land on the essentially inaccessible peak. While air and space craft could theoretically make the area accessible, the place of Steel Peak as an inaccessible and wild area in Danaan public consciousness makes such an endeavor culturally distasteful to most Danaans.

In modern times, the only travellers to Steel Peak are naturalists or religious Hsien. Many Hsien religious and spiritual people find the isolated and wild area at the top of the world to be ideal for temporary religious seclusion for the purposes of deep prayer and meditation.