Two rugged mountain ranges form the Gauntlets in the
east, just beyond Raam. The range to the north – the
Left Gauntlet, as one looks eastward from Raam – is
considerably older and more weathered than the southerly
range. Sandstorms have reduced the Left Gauntlet to
rounded domes, split and cracked by great fissures.
Raam mined these peaks for generations, extracting silver
and gemstones before the mines played out. Now the
abandoned shafts house tarek tribes that prey on small
caravans bound for Draj, along with a slave tribe known
as Krikik's Pack.
The steep southern mountains of the Right Gauntlet
have proved hardier, forming a barrier against the Sea of
Silt and preventing its encroachment inland. Many old
gypsum quarries that provided alabaster for the statues
and facades of Raam dot their lower slopes. Tribes of
hejkins and troglodytes have all but driven out Raam's
stonecutters.