Frostback Mountains

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“Called ‘the Frozen Teeth’ by the dwarves, the Frostback Mountains form the primary divide between the nation of Ferelden in the east and the Orlesian Empire in the west. Only Gherlen’s Pass is considered safe for year-round travel. The entrance to Orzammar also lies on that pass, with its permanent shanty-town filled with traders and petitioners, making it of strategic importance to the dwarves as well as the human nations.

The hardy Avvars also make their homes in the mountains, driven into the heights after centuries of constant warfare with the hated “lowlanders”. Today the Avvars are herders and hunters, separated into fortified stone “holdings” that fight more with each other than they do with outsiders. An Avvar guide is likely to be the only one who will know a safe way through the Frostbacks outside of Gherlen’s Pass, and only they will know which ice bridges are safe to navigate and which will crumble come the spring. The chances of finding one that will agree to leave his holding for the sake of an outsider, however, are quite slim.”

-- Sister Petrine, a Chantry scholar -- an excerpt from “Ferelden: Folklore and History”

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