Ink and watercolour sketch of a great mountain split by a deep cleft at dusk, an elven city of lit towers and terraces carved along it and cave gates at its forested foot.

Location

Twilight Peak

The elven seat of power: a mountain split in two, with a city, catacombs and prisons carved deep within, taken over by Umbra in the Dark Times.

  • Before the Invasion
  • Between the Ages
  • Dark Times

Description

Twilight Peak is the seat of elven power in Meliora, a mountain split in half. Within and beneath it the elves built a bustling city, a vast necropolis of coffin-lined halls, a cistern that was later drained and turned into a black market, and a prison of cells and walkways carved into a gigantic cave. The darkling tunnels of the Underhollow wind through its roots.

Historical context

The mountain was split eons ago to take its heart of fire, leaving the Rend. In the war of the dead its catacombs were a place of dread, for the elves feared their own dead would rise at the enemy's call. By the Dark Times Umbra had taken the peak, and it became the goal of the stranger's journey. Old tectonic damage had long since ruined the cistern and the prison, and no one had bothered to repair them.