The Volcano Arc
Place · Central Reach
Through the interior of the Reach runs a broken arch of mountains, and along that arch stand seven volcanoes - some smoking, some long cold, all old beyond reckoning. The country folk treat them as landmarks and weather-makers and little more, the way one treats any great old thing one has lived beside all one's life. The scholars of Velmoryn have catalogued them and measured their tempers, but what the seven were truly raised for, if they were raised at all, is not a question the Athenaeum has settled.