Mountains that were once snowcapped are now heated and seemingly burned, being a color of pitch black. The mountains seem no more than deadly spikes penetrating up through dead ground The peaks of these mountains reach above dark grey clouds that are a constant, chilling rain pouring down from them. Despite that the mountains remain surrounded by hot and humid air. No plantlife other than dried up shrubs exist here. That is not to say the mountains are void of life though. Mutated predators lurk here, most famously black lions nearly 5 times the size of the average lion before The End came. New creatures also lurk here, such as: wyvrens, thuderbirds, and hellhounds. It would seem crazy for any human to enter the death trap of these mountains but one after the other they come, seeking out Mount Upus in hopes of climbing it to reach the Heavens.