| Category | Volcanoes | ||
| Continent | Brucrumus | ||
| Region | Northern Hordelands, Phangul | ||
| Created | 12 Brightstar 38 HE | ||
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Early in the Horgon Era, a fire troll named Vuzara found an ancient dragon orb of immense power, the Zuwuth Uv Enkii. Using it on a nearby mountain, she magically turned it into a volcano. Since that time, Vuzaras Oven has been an active volcano. Sited in the icy range of Fros Idar, its lava tubes descend into the dark reaches of Olvagny, through the waters of the Heliotrope Sea to fiery regions far below.
From her volcano, Vuzara ruled as a merciless tyrant. Nearing the end of her lifespan, Vuzara gave up her life energy for its opposite, becoming a lich. As an undead, she ruled for more than three centuries (62 HE - 392 HE). Her minions were mostly fire trolls and gnolls, and a few red dragons under the leash of her sinister dragon orb.
In 392 HE, Vuzara's six century reign ended under a furry of blows by a stone giant master monk named Grazafar. With the fall of Vuzara, her horde scattered. Other powers came and went over the centuries, but nothing as dark as the time of the lich Vuzara.
On the outside of the volcano, the slopes are dotted with the ruins of Vuzara's long reign, great palatial baths with still working steam pools and old towers and strongholds, lairs of beasts, robbers, and things more terrible. The areas within the volcano, a honeycomb of passages and chambers, are just as bad. Built by enslaved hill and stone giants, these places are huge.
Some of the passages going through Vuzaras Oven are trade routes linking the surface with the dark reaches below. The safer passages are those used by the Gnemdos Trade Network, others descend into the deeps of Phangul, to pirate bases along the Heliotrope Sea and to more civilized places like Dienkigec.