Tulivuori is a soaring peak that stands alone on a flat plain. This unnatural feature is the result of meddling by Maximus, the Beast World’s Great Wyrm of Red. Long ago, the dragon pulled fire from below the earth to form the volcano, and he now lurks in a castle within its caldera. Maximus is the only Great Wyrm whose lair’s location is well-known, but The Red Tyrant doesn’t entertain visitors. The survival rate of those who have attempted to climb Tulivuori is exactly zero.
A small lodge house once known as Ylin sits in the mountain’s shadow. Travelers hiking north to the Oenin tell various horror stories about Ylin’s fate. What’s surely true is that it stands deserted.
As one story goes, the dragon once offered Ylin’s people a life of ease in exchange for a share of ownership in their house. Maximus purchased parts of the lodge house from their owners and eventually came to own the entire structure. Over time, the price levied by the dragon to live in his domain climbed. When the inhabitants were utterly drained of wealth, he ordered them out into the Oric winter. They stood at the doors of Ylin, pleading for their lives. They insisted they couldn’t survive in the freezing temperatures.
To “warm them,” Maximus blanketed the people in white-hot fire.