Young of the Mountains

Although they can seem quite reserved and aloof, mountains are capable of great love. Indeed, the Cognate endearment Kovazhar refers to the bonds of love only mountains can share. The offspring of that passionate, often reckless, love are the Kovazhararar, conversational beings comprised of at least 3 different rope-like strands—each one itself made of a different quality of existence (like Time, Space, or Ferylemt). A typical Kovazhararar looks a bit like a loosely-tied knot, its hefty, searching, filaments in near constant motion—like multi-colored eels forever merged.

Such a creature was Gwan Elmeppe, the first great bridge builder of Kcymaerxthaere. Some believe that Time itself began only when Elmeppe built their first true masterwork across the forbidding narrows of a river not far from this place. Those waters flowed along the seam of the Noomghuna Valley, a channel worn by generations of pilgrims searching for a river to cross and the mountains’ young to behold. Indeed, for such folks, the making of that bridge is variously called “The Benchmark of Time” or “An Almost of Ferylemt.”