Dawn Pass Trail, the precarious trail that crossed the Graypeak Mountains through Dawn Pass, that was preferred by Zhentarim caravans.Īs of the late 15 th century DR, the mountains were rumored to hold caches of treasure stashed away by the Cult of the Dragon. They went fleeing for settlements near the mountains, such as Parnast to the west. Ī decade later in the Year of the Banner, 1368 DR, many goblins were driven from their homes in the mountains by the horrific acts taken by the Beast Lord in Dekanter. They remained there through to at least the next twelve years, aided by a hired beholder from Dekanter, together with its gnoll minions. īy the Year of Shadows, 1358 DR, a garrison of thirty Lord's Men from Llorkh stood guard at Dawn Pass. It was told that monsters made their lairs in several other tunnels, making them hazardous. After the takeover of the town the following year, the Lord's Men commandeered three worked-out mine tunnels near Llorkh to use for storage. These were old and almost worked-out, their lodes nearly exhausted, by the mid–14th century DR, but some miners still persisted in working there. Their shallow tunnels riddled the mountains north and east of the town. The people of the town of Llorkh once mined for iron and silver in the Greypeaks. The dwarven realm thrived for some time, until it was abandoned rather abruptly in the 9 th century DR. History ĭuring the Age of the Proud Peoples, the Greypeak Mountains were home to the Ammarindar kingdom of dwarves. The summit of Mount Hlim was located among the southern peaks of the mountains. ĭeep within the mounts rest the Realm of Stone and Shadow, a network of caverns and subterranean passageways dug out by dwarves from an ages-old kingdom. As of the Present Age, two rivers emerged from the Greypeak Mountains: the Grayflow in the south and the Loagrann (from three tributaries) in the north. Geographic Features īack during the Days of Thunder, the Narrow Seas ran along the mountains' eastern slopes. The mountains were bordered by the Marsh of Chelimber and the Forgotten Forest to the south, the Lonely Moor and Fallen Lands to the east and northeast respectively, the Gray Vale and Delimbiyr Vale to the west and southwest, and the Backlands of the Heartlands to the south. The caps of the mountains were covered in snow and ice freezing raid falling down the eastern slopes of the Greypeaks formed the Frozen Sea region of western Anauroch. The weather was generally pretty poor throughout the mountains. Rather than forming a freshwater body within the ring of mountains, water mixed with eroded mountainside to form an morass of wet earth and wavering trees that appeared to float within the sinking ground. The range of peaks formed a massive bowl of sorts that encircled what could be described as a massive bog-forest. Paths and trails across the range's mountainsides were quite precarious, appearing as little more than rocky shelves barely wide enough for man or steed.