Five hexes northwest, two southwest of Alakran.
It is forgotten what resemblance or incident lent the name of this ancient and sinister deity, let alone his body part, to this steep eminence with dark-streaked sides that looms to the east of Gesshed. The name give a dark cast to the landmark, and local folk who find themselves staring too long at it look away quickly and say a prayer to the Sun Disk of Mitra. Occasionally a fire can be seen burning on high there, but the priests of Set officially denies any goings-on. Really they are too concerned with respectability, not to mention out of shape, to clamber up that high and dance around a bonfire.
On a prominent ledge fifty feet down from this mountain's true peak, the ledge where the fire appears, is carved a wind-brushed circle of engraved sigils in arcane language, roughly meaning "As the beams of the Great Sun arrive, so we two places are one." Anyone who stands in the circle and has any kind of teleportation or instant displacement spell cast upon them, no matter how low level, will instantly and without error find themselves in the twin of the circle, atop Mount Dassu in western Dulsharna.
The fire, in fact, is a phantom, an illusion and scrying device that reappears periodically when something comes through the pagic portal that leads to the mountain , which we hae already described. It came about at the command of Belizar, the mentor of the wizard Syrioth of Eryptos, and she still possesses the stub of a sigil-carved cedar branch that, when lit, allows the view from the top of the mountain. This branch will spontaneously light if someone makes use of the teleport circle on Dassu to arrive at its twin on Sutekh's Knee.
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