This region, encompassing The Reign of Eld and its mountains, is also known as New Baz. A kingdom of antiquity called the region Basom. This mountain range separates and encircles the kingdom of Orchalannon. Athos is supposedly the namesake of one of the titans that laid the lands at the bidding of the gods, though the people of New Baz have no particular reverence for the titan itself.
Fortresses and strongholds fill the cracks amid the peaks and valleys to the south and west. The highest peaks in this range are over 14,000 feet, where the air is so thin that inexperienced mountaineers routinely suffocate. Glaciers from its greatest summit, Athoras Heights, feed clear and cool water into Lake Sulise County.
Feral Gryphon and Demigryph can be found roaming the deep wilderness. Raised in captivity and trained, such beasts are intelligent, powerful, and reliable. Forced to survive on instinct however, they become deadly, unpredictable, and even malicious. Luckily these are rare, and cannot reproduce without the secret magics of the hatchery at Athoras Heights.