The volcano on the northern island, where a woman of flame bathes and the earth plays its organ.
Raised: c. 4,000 years before year zero (First Age), by Svarog.
Story
When Astralis said there wasn’t enough fire, Svarog raised a volcano on the northern island and named it Ardor. Around 3,000 years before year zero his avatar took up residence in it: Ardora, a woman made of flame.
In the same years Ardor erupted, and the glowing stones that fell were quickened by the chaos-energy of the cosmos into the Fire Genasi. Astralis gave them a gift: where the volcano punctures the earth, vents roar like organ-pipes — “the first sound your race ever heard was the earth playing its organ.” He also seeded Star Metal near the volcano.
Around year 100 Ardora founded Cinderforge on the northern island. One of the four known Great Crystals stands there.
Now
Ardora, “the First Born of the Fire,” bathes in her volcano, inaccessible.
Connections
- Ardora — lives in it
- Fire Genasi — born of its eruption
- Cinderforge — the Genasi city on its island
- Svarog — its maker